Monday, August 03, 2009

Preseason National Prep Football Poll released


URBANDALE, Iowa -- Defending Florida 5A champion St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) is ranked No. 1 in the first National Prep Poll of the season.

This is the 14th consecutive weekly poll with Aquinas ranked in the top spot. The Raiders, who have won 24 straight games, took over the nation's No. 1 ranking last September and rolled to their second consecutive state championship and first-ever Prep Poll mythical national title.

"It’s hard to imagine the 2009 Raiders being as dominant in all phases of the game as last year's team," said Jamie DeMoney, who begins his 10th year as compiler of the World Features Syndicate/Associated Press National Prep Poll. "The '08 Aquinas team was by far faster, stronger, and more fundamentally sound than every team it faced.

"The standard last year's Aquinas team set is almost unrealistically high. But with that said, with the quality of talent and coaching that this team will have, I see no reason to expect the Raiders to lose a game this year, either."

The Raiders, who have about a dozen potential Division I recruits in their senior class, will play a difficult schedule that kicks off with an August 29 trip to play Upper Arlington, Ohio, at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. On October 5, Aquinas will host No. 2 Duncan, S.C., Byrnes in a much-anticipated nationally televised matchup.




Preseason National Prep Football Poll

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

IF STA CAN HOLD OFF BYRNES OR JUST DONT GET BLASTED OUT IN OHIO, THEY STAND TO RETURN AS NATIONAL CHAMPS, BUT THATS A BIG (IF). NOT A BYRNES FAN, BUT FACTS ARE FACTS, BYRNES IS NO JOKE.

Cedar Hill Finest said...

Thanks for giving credit to Cedar Hill Longhorns, what i wanted to say is all you other states for your 5 best teams againts our 5 best you have no chance Katy,Cedar Hill,Allen,Stoney Point,Dallas Skyline you have no chance. The best football is played in the Great state of texas baby.

Cedar Hill Finest said...

Cedar Hill Longhorns are no joke baby

Anonymous said...

Hey Jamie, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF LONG BEACH POLY? OR LOS ANGELES CRENSHAW?

Anonymous said...

Cedar Hill Finest.....OK you can wake up now. The top 5 from California, Florida or Ohio would do just fine against the top 5 from Texas. Texas would go 3-2 or 2-3 if they played any of the above three states.

Cedar Hill Finest said...

Texas football is where it's at these days. Ask all the sports writers we play hard nose football all day every day some of the best football played here in Texas. Lol ask ESPN if they dont think we have some good football. Why they doing a special on our football team Aug 29 watch the game baby you will see some good football played.

Anonymous said...

Cedar Hill Finest...If you are going to use ESPN/Rise as your source for what is good football, then you need to look at where states rank at the end of the season. The total number of mentions in the Top 25 at the end of the season for 2006, 2007 and 2008 in the ESPN/Rise Poll are: California with 10, Florida with 6, Ohio with 6 and Texas with 6. I'm not so sure that the best football in the nation is played in Texas, baby.

Anonymous said...

Byrnes Ranked #1

2008 Final Power Rating: 63.7
2008 National Rank: #8
2008 State Rank: #2
Off-Season Rating Adjustment: +11.5*
2009 Starting Power Rating: 75.2*
2009 National Rank: #1*
2009 State Rank: #1*
Dynasty Rating (avg. rating 2003-07): 54.7
Dynasty National Rank: #6
2009 Rating vs. Dynasty Rating: better by 20.5*
Dynasty Record: 83-4 (30-2 in league)

2009 7 ALL-AMERICANS AND 9 D1 STARTERS, WITH THE BEST RUNNING BACK IN THE NATION!9 STATE TITLES.

AQUINAS Ranked #8

2008 Final Power Rating: 69.3
2008 National Rank: #1
2008 State Rank: #1
Off-Season Rating Adjustment: -4*
2009 Starting Power Rating: 65.3*
2009 National Rank: #8*
2009 State Rank: #1*
Dynasty Rating (avg. rating 2003-07): 45.9
Dynasty National Rank: #49
2009 Rating vs. Dynasty Rating: better by 19.4*
Dynasty Record: 75-9 (26-0 in league)

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WOW what a difference in the two polls this year.

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