A major shakeup at the top of Class AAAA history doing a little bit of repeating. The Tucker Tigers lost to Marist yet again in the regular season, this time 32-7 after a 38-0 beatdown last season. Once again the precision of the War Eagles overcame the sheer talent of the Tucker Tigers and the defending champs are hoping that history goes on to repeat itself with the Tigers meeting up with Marist again in the state playoffs. That worked out well for Tucker last year.
Wow though, that region 6-AAAA has 3 teams in the top 7 of this week's rankings with Tucker at #7, Marist at #6 and SWD at No.3 behind Griffin (Unknown at this time as to how good they REALLY ARE) and Westside Macon (overrated last season and it looks like again this season). SWD lost to ML King and is somehow being penalized for that. True Perhaps WSM should be ahead because they beat Bainbridge for in all essence the Region1 title on Friday, but SWD is the best team in Class AAAA and I'll say it every week just like I said every week last year that Tucker was the best, rankings be darned.
Let's move up to Class AAAAA. Grayson took Parkview's best punch at the Big Orange Jungle and still came out 33-27 winners. Grayson is showing me that they can win with a running game AND with defense. The Rams can go 10-0 or 33-27. Perhaps though they should be imposing their will on more teams? I say boo, win anyway you can Coach Conn. And PS, SOME ACC or SEC SCHOOL, would you PLEASE GIVE EAN PEMBERTON a scholarship?
Lowndes and Northside (Warner Robins) both won potential look-past games and now will face each other this Friday with Fletcher and GPB calling the action. I cannot wait to see Khary Franklin and Ed Christian and all of the other bigtime senior prospects in this one. Throw in Conrad Nix as N-WR coach and you have potentially the best game until the state championship. I will refrain from picking a winner like Kirk does on Gameday.
Newnan looked pretty strong with the 34-6 win over Creekside and Alec Ogletree was impressive to watch on CSS replay. Georgia has a great one I do believe. But then Bacarri Rambo looked pretty good too on Saturday. That duo would be nice to have for a few seasons in Athens.
North Gwinnett powered its way to a 30-3 win. That O-Line is just dominating. JuWuan James, PLEASE come to Georgia.
Lastly in AAAAA, Charles Perkins may have nearly fumbled away a Collins Hill victory, but CHHS held on to bail him out. Perkins I still say is better than Mack Brown and Storm Johnson. I haven't seen the North Clayton kid, but Perkins and Rajaan Bennett are top three for me.
In Class AAA, Blake Sims and the Red Elephants of Gainesville nearly got GPB's game of the week status, but we jumped on the LC/NWR game instead. That's a shame. I would have liked to have seen all of the talent in Gainesville. Jones, Carr and Sims...those guys should be penciled in for a F4 run. I'd love to see Peach Co, FloBranch, Gainesville, and Carver-Columbus in the F4.
Buford shut out Decatur 28-0 and next travels to Avondale. I watched the Blue Devils beat Blessed Trinity on Friday and Avondale's starters are pretty good. They've got two good RBs and one of those also plays CB. Their WR/CB/KR is also pretty good and Buford just doesn't appear to have its usual killer instinct. Could Avondale squeeze another win out? Doubtful in this game, but don't look for a 50-0 rout like in years past.
Finally, Calhoun hosts Gordon-Central this week. GPB was also thinking about highlighting that game but once Lowndes/Northside (WR) opened up, Da'Rick Rodgers and Nash Nance were moved to the back burner. I would have enjoyed watching Da'Rick but that's OK. I'll get to watch him Between The Hedges next season.
If you are bored on Friday, log on to gpb.org/football for the Lowndes/Northside game, called by myself and Charles Ward. It should be a great one!
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