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Camden County returned to the Georgia winner's circle on Saturday. The Wildcats beat Peachtree Ridge 21-14 Saturday to win the state's AAAAA title. It's the school's second title since 2003. Click here for game story.
Ahh....victory is sweet for the Cairo Syrupmakers, who captured Georgia's AAA title Saturday beating Flowery Branch 28-14 at the Georgia Dome. Last year, Cairo lost in the championship game when Columbus-Carver scored a touchdown in the last minute of the game. Click here for game story.
Emanuel County Institute's star running back Washaun Ealey couldn't close out his career with a second straight Georgia A high school football championship. Wesleyan held the Georgia recruit and the state's all-time touchdown leader to just 90-yards on its way to a 33-21 win for the state's A title Saturday at the Georgia Dome. Click here for game story.
Tucker's first Georgia high school football championship was a sweet one for the team. On September 26th, the Tigers were beaten soundly by Marist 36-0. On Friday December 12th, Tucker turned the tables and beat the War Eagles 15-3 for the AAAA title. Click here for game story.
Buford had no trouble winning back-to-back Georgia AA titles on Friday. The Wolves beat Calhoun 45-21 in the championship game at the Georgia Dome. It was Buford's 6th championship. Click here for game story.
One week after knocking defending AAAAA champ Lowndes from the state tournament and national rankings, Grayson is on the outside looking in. Peachtree Ridge knocked off the Rams 13-10 in double overtime to advance to its second state title game in three years. Peachtree Ridge is now 12-2 after starting the season with two straight losses. Click here for game story.
Center Grove (IN), Maine South (IL) and Muskegon (MI) all won state championships last weekend, and in addition to the shiny trophies, all three are in the new USA Today Super 25 released on Tuesday. Joining that trio is Grayson (GA), which hops into the rankings at #14 after taking down defending Georgia champ and former #4 Lowndes in the GHSA quarterfinals on Friday.
It's hard to believe, but the Lowndes Vikings (#6 USA Today Super 25) will be on the road for the quarterfinal round of the Georgia high school football playoffs. The #1 team in AAAAA will be on the road Friday night to face #5 Grayson (12-0) because it lost a coin flip Saturday to determine the home team. The reason for the coin flip, both teams are region champs and that's the way the state determines, who gets a home game. Click here to read about the Vikings (12-0) only "loss" so far this year.
Northside-Warner Robins may still be the best AAAA team in Georgia...problem is...the Eagles are now a AAAAA school. Friday night, Northside saw its season come to a close with a 28-20 loss to undefeated Camden County. The Eagles (#24 USA Today Super 25), who had won back-to-back AAAA titles, end the season with a 10-2 record with losses to the #1 (Lowndes) and #2 (Camden County) AAAAA teams in the state. Click here for game story.
No one said it would be easy for two-time Georgia AAAA champ Northside-Warner Robins (#24 USA Today Super 25) in 2008. The Eagles not only moved-up to the state's biggest classification after winning back-to-back AAAA titles, but the school also moved to the incredibly tough Region 1-AAAAA, which includes defending champ Lowndes.
If anyone doesn't believe that records are really 0-0 at the start of the postseason, just ask Woodstock. The Wolverines entered their first round AAAAA Georgia high school football playoff game against Walton with a record of 6-4 compared to the Raiders lofty 9-1 mark and an 8th seed. When the smoke cleared Friday night, it was Woodstock that lived to play another game as it beat the Raiders 28-7. Click here to read game story.
After twelve tough weeks of regular season football, the first round pairings are set for the 2008 Georgia high school football playoffs. All of the #1's in each classification appear to be favorites to win state titles, but before filling out your brackets, you may want to take a look at a fact in the Atlanta Journal Constitution's fun fact that since 1988 only 40% of the #1 teams at the end of the regular season won state titles.
I'm not sure why, but the NY Times love affair with former Hoover, Alabama head football coach Rush Propst continues. Yes, the man that was run out of Alabama for many reasons...including grade-fixing and an extramarital affair has scored another feature in America's premiere newspaper. In Wednesday's NY Times sports section, Probst, the man behind MTV's Two-A-Days while at Hoover, is profiled as he tries to turn around the Colquitt County Packers in southwest Georgia. Click here to read the story.
Newnan head coach Robert Herring would like nothing more to win his 300th career game this season, because that will mean that his Cougars will have gotten to the quarterfinal round of the Georgia high school playoffs. Friday night, Herring's team improved to 9-0 with a 49-0 shutout of Mundy's Mill, it was Herring's 297th career win. Newnan is ranked #3 Class AAAAA and has the number one scoring defense along just over three points a game. Click here to read more about the Cougars.
A week off did nothing but get nationally-ranked Lowndes (#3 USA Today Super 25) ready for its run for another Georgia Class AAAAA state title. Friday night the well rested Vikings slammed Houston County 52-14. The #1 team in Georgia can wrap-up the Region 1 AAAAA title next weekend by beating Coffee in the Vikings regular season finale. For a game recap click here.
Trinity's loss is St. Xavier's gain as the Louisville, Kentucky powers swap spots in the latest USA Today Super 25. St. X, which beat last week's #21, moves into the rankings at #25. #8 Colerain (Cincinnati, OH) tumbles out of the poll, but Cincinnati high school football fans don't have to worry...Elder (Cincinnati, OH) moves in at #20.
Lowdnes' (Valdosta, GA) extended its school-record win streak to 20-games while Northside (Warner Robins, GA) saw the seventh longest win streak in Georgia history come to an end Friday. Lowndes (#11 USA Today) beat Northside (#19 USA Today) 24-7 before a sellout crowd and a national television audience in a battle of last year's Class AAAAA and AAAA champs.
