FloridaHSFootball.com Media Poll - Week 11

LAKE CITY – With just one more week before the 2013 regular season comes to a close a lot of teams are already lining up for their shot at making a deep run into the playoffs.

For the Florida HS Football Media Poll, some teams lost forcing a tiebreaker or some won to do the same thing. And for some teams, scores that went closer than expected caught the attention of our voters as well.

The Top 5 in the Large Schools Division of the poll remained unchanged, but Miramar did leapfrog over St. Thomas Aquinas to take the No. 4 spot. Miramar had previously defeated St. Thomas Aquinas 22-20 earlier this season.

West Florida and Lakeland, which both lost after playing deciding district games fell out of the poll, but two new teams got ranked for the first time this season with Kathleen and Deerfield Beach checking in. Kathleen checked in at No. 18 while Deerfield Beach is in at No. 19.

In the Small Schools Division of the poll University School reclaimed the No. 2, a position it has held for most of the season, except for being ranked No. 3 in last week’s poll.

However, with Cardinal Newman and Frostproof losing last week, both teams dropped out of the rankings and with that Fort White reenters the poll for the second time this season at No. 19 while Union County reenter again as well at No. 20.

FLORIDA HS FOOTBALL MEDIA POLL – LARGE SCHOOLS DIVISION
Classes 5A, 6A, 7A & 8A
	Team	Points (FPV)	Rec	Prev
1	Miami Central	375 (14)	7-1	1
2	Manatee	358 (4)	10-0	2
3	Apopka	338 (1)	9-1	3
4	Miramar	312	10-0	5
5	St. Thomas Aquinas	306	8-1	4
6	Dr. Phillips	268	9-0	6
7	Armwood	256	9-0	8
8	Godby	255	8-1	7
9	Dwyer	225	10-0	9
10	East Lake	203	9-0	10
11	American Heritage (Plantation)	188	8-1	11
12	Pensacola Catholic	161	10-0	14
13	Columbia	104	8-1	16
14	Plant	102	8-1-1	17
15	Fort Pierce Central	101	8-0	18
16	Ed White	79	8-1	19
17	Mainland	55	8-1	20
18	Kathleen	44	8-1	NR
19	Deerfield Beach	42	9-0	NR
20	Niceville	40	8-1	13
Others Receiving Votes: Lakeland – 28; West Florida – 27; Merritt Island – 25; South Dade – 23; South Sumter – 19; Fleming Island – 18; Lake Mary – 10; Gainesville – 9; Rickards – 6; Sickles – 4; Jefferson – 2; Lincoln – 2; St. Augustine – 1
FLORIDA HS FOOTBALL MEDIA POLL – SMALL SCHOOLS DIVISION
Classes 1A, 2A, 3A & 4A
	Team	Points (FPV)	Rec	Prev
1	Booker T. Washington	380 (19)	10-0	1
2	University School	349	8-1	3
3	Cocoa	338	8-1	2
4	Trinity Christian (Jacksonville)	313	7-1	5
5	Tampa Catholic	310	8-1	4
6	Raines	280	7-2	7
7	University Christian	241	7-2	8
8	Clearwater Central Catholic	227	7-2	6
9	Champagnat	226	9-0	9
10	Warner Christian	193	7-1	10
11	Bolles	179	7-2	11
12	Blountstown	154	9-0	12
13	Westminster Christian	134	8-1	14
14	Dixie County	133	7-0	13
15	Melbourne Central Catholic	127	9-0	15
16	North Florida Christian	111	7-2	16
17	Clewiston	70	8-1	20
18	Gulliver Prep	68	7-2	17
19	Fort White	42	6-1	NR
20	Union County	32	8-1	NR
Others Receiving Votes: Trinity Catholic – 27; Cardinal Newman – 21; Trenton – 10; Cardinal Mooney – 10; Frostproof – 6; American Heritage (Delray) – 4; Liberty County – 3; Fort Meade – 2; Pahokee – 1
Our Panel of Pollsters
Eric Clark – Big County Preps; Danny Klein – Daytona Beach News-Journal; Philip Piccirillo – FloridaHSFooball.com; Joshua Wilson – FloridaHSFootball.com; Justin Barney – Florida Times-Union; Larry Savage – Gainesville Sun; Adam Fisher – Naples Daily News; Andre Fernandez – Miami Herald; Anthony Chiang – Palm Beach Post; Brad Milner – Panama City News Herald; Brady Aymond – Pensacola News Journal; Shaquille Jackson – South Florida High School Football Show; Matt Baker – Tampa Bay Times; Nick Williams – Tampa Tribune; Laurel Pfhaler – TC Palm; Chris Green – South Dade News Leader; Nick Gryniewicz – ESPN 580 Orlando; Wells Dusenbury – ESPN 106.3 West Palm Beach; Marc Adams – 4 Quarters Online; Carson Ingle – 740 The Game Orlando; Doug Pugh – Bright House Sports Network; Austen Gregerson – St. Augustine Record