It’s time. The national high school football polls are about to over-run us, and we’ll start with the aptly named National Prep Poll from Jamie DeMoney of Urbandale, IA.
Not a ton of Pennsylvania love – the highest-ranked team in preseason in NPP is defending PIAA 4-AAAA champion La Salle College High School, which is pretty much a default position because, well, there just isn’t a Class AAAA superstar team in Pennsylvania heading into the 2010 season. La Salle checks in at No. 23 nationally in Jamie’s poll.
Other Pa. teams in NPP’s Top 100 are North Penn at No. 33, St. Joseph’s Prep and new head coach Gabe Infante at No. 54, Cumberland Valley at No. 71, Woodland Hills at No. 91 and Harrisburg Bishop McDevitt at No. 96.
Conveniently, La Salle and North Penn open the season on Sept. 3 at North Penn.
The NPP Top 100 and regional top 25 lists are here.
I like Jamie. He works hard, and he’s made a point to contact me over the last few years. So if you don’t like where the Pennsylvania teams are ranked in his poll, I’ll shoulder a portion of the blame. I’m still compiling my pre-season info and I can honestly say I don’t know who my preseason No. 1 Class AAAA team will be when the first RodFrisco.com rankings come out at the end of the month. Told Jamie that there’s just no prohibitive favorite in AAAA this year.
I can tell you that McDevitt will be my Class AAA No. 1, but that’s the only sure preseason No. 1 at this point.
Enjoy. It’s that time of year again.
