Joshua Wilson

The game was confirmed about 45 minutes ago via Larry Blustein.

I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday, but I do have an official page where i am doing Hurricane Dorian updates including game changes and information on which school districts are closed: https://floridahsfootball.com/2019/09/01/hurricane-dorian-live-updates/ Please provide any updates you all have here.

Not a good look at all sadly... wonder if Hurricane Dorian has had an effect on some of this?

Got a list going here for changes on the Week 2 slate... pretty sure I will have a huge list for the Week 3 slate given the forecast

Guys... we are scratching the Carol City vs. Northwestern game from the list.

MY PICKS: Armwood Columbus Miami Central Miami Northwestern Hoover, Ala. Rockledge St. Thomas Aquinas Fort Myers Dillard Escambia PINKOS' PICKS Armwood 21 over North Gwinnett Columbus 10 over Osceola (Kissimmee) Miami Central 17 over Booker T. Washington Carol City 8 over Northwestern Hoover 6 over Cocoa Rockledge 1 over Lincoln St. Thomas Aquinas 24 over Bergen Catholic Charlotte 1 over Fort Myers Dillard 13 over Miramar Crestview 12 over Escambia

Here at this week's pick'ems and the current standings. NOTE #1: If you miss more than two weeks during the season, you are automatically out of the pick'ems. NOTE #2: Should any of these games get moved up to Thursday due to Tropical Storm Dorian, they will be scratched and we will add games for the pick'ems next week to balance the numbers out. STANDINGS ohs vargas - 9-1 NoleBull813 - 8-2 ColumbiaHighFan2017class - 8-2 VeniceIndiansFootball - 8-2 Zoe Boy - 8-2 Jimmbyb1980 - 8-2 badbird - 8-2 THIS_IS_DILLARD - 7-3 KeemD321 - 7-3 FL_HS_Football - 7-3 Jags904 - 7-3 Cat Scratch - 7-3 Perspeticve - 7-3 Muckboy561 - 7-3 Lakeland Gator - 7-3 Coach - 6-4 raefsu233 - 6-4 HornetFan - 6-4 TopNotch305 - 5-5 Joshua WIlson - 5-5 peezy28 - 4-6 JOE PINKOS' PICKS - 9-1 THIS WEEK'S PICK'EMS Thread locks at 6 PM Friday Night No. 5 Armwood (1-0) at North Gwinett, Ga. (1-0) No. 10 Columbus (1-0) at Osceola (Kissimmee) (1-0) No. 23 Booker T. Washington (1-0) vs. Miami Central (0-1) No. 7 Miami Carol City (1-0) vs. No. 3 Miami Northwestern (1-0) No. 21 Cocoa (1-0) vs. Hoover, Ala. (1-0) at The Freedom Bowl Lincoln (1-0) at No. 19 Rockledge (1-0) Bergen Catholic, N.J. (0-0) at No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas (1-0) Miramar (1-0) at Dillard (1-0) Crestview (1-0) at Escambia (1-0) Fort Myers (1-0) at Charlotte (1-0)

Here is Joe Pinkos' Week 2 game forecast:

Here are this week's rankings... Hint... Carol City jumps around and a team name Dillard might be lurking around somewhere in these rankings as well.

Rankings are going to be adjusting for this... just watch. And Dillard should be happy come tomorrow evening as well.

I know the organizers of this personally and it exceeded the numbers they had projected. I think it is called getting the right mix of schools, the right types of rivalries and keeping it focused on the metro area teams. If you try to invite an out of area team to something like this, it might not draw as well. The model for successful multiple games at a single site is sitting with this I feel. Airstream Ventures did a fantastic job.

And it is going to flip... I have to chalk this one up. Columbia can make a run to state (which I have thought that since the new districts were set). Thought it would be closer, but this is just out of hand. Got to make some adjustments.

Here are links to our Statewide, Classification, SSAC & Independent Scoreboards for this season powered by ScoreStream Statewide: https://flhsfb.com/2TU2ujL Class 8A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZjZfcR Class 7A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZbH60L Class 6A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZjZip3 Class 5A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZjZgNX Class 4A: https://flhsfb.com/2Ze2aDu Class 3A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZfxHFm Class 2A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZdxdQ0 Class 1A: https://flhsfb.com/2ZjZPY5 SSAC: https://flhsfb.com/2ZcwEG1 IND: https://flhsfb.com/2ZcwH4F

Here is the full statewide Week 1 football schedule: https://floridahsfootball.com/2019/08/19/week-1-statewide-football-schedule/ Here is the schedule for the Florida Top 25: https://floridahsfootball.com/2019/08/21/florida-top-25-game-schedule-for-week-1/

Posted this a couple of days ago, but meant to post it here. We do have Joe Pinkos' first game forecast of the 2019 season right here for you! https://floridahsfootball.com/2019/08/19/joe-pinkos-joe-pinkos-week-1-statewide-game-forecast/

Depending on which poll you are looking at? AP or the FloridaHSFootball.com rankings? Let me say first... the AP Poll has lost my vote of confidence. Island Coast who has struggled the last few years is ranked in the Top 10 in 6A. I don't even have them on my radar in their own REGION in 6A... and they only had 8 people vote from over 25 daily newspapers in the state that can vote. This is when you know there is an issue. On to my rankings - 8A... Dr. Phillips... I am concerned about. Need to see them do a little bit more. If they struggle, they might not even win the district. - 8A... Osceola... Might not be a strong as they have been the last few years, but I do have them as the second team in my First Five Out. - 8A... Winter Park... 8A has become so stacked in the North, but this could be a legitimate miss. - 7A... Dwyer... I got some serious reservations right now about the Panthers. - 7A... Miramar... They probably wish they were still in Class 8A right now... holy smokes 7A football right now! ON FIRE!!!! - 7A... Niceville... District setup is nuts... I like to see how Coach Thompson does things before I push having to place a 4th team from 7A-1 into rankings between the Top 10 and First Five Out - 7A... Tampa Bay Tech... A team that is listed in the First Five Out. But could be ranked by the time the play Armwood. - 5A... Bishop Moore... 5A got deeper. Possible Bishop Moore becomes a casualty of that with the rankings. - 4A... Tampa Catholic... Pretty close to being sold on them. They are my first team out on the First FIve Out for Class 4A. Could be ranked by midseason. - 1A... Blountstown... I have them as my first team out on my First Five Out... I am mostly concerned about the roster size for the Tigers this year which is only 22. Hurricane Michael effects still happening to this very day. It is sad. They also have a tough schedule, so staying healthy is going to be priority No. 1 for them.

I need to post the link to PInkos for sure and maybe ought to include his just for fun. You never know... Jacquez Green is the new OC at Manatee, so you never know what to expect. And yes 10 will be the official number to keep it easy for all of us.

True... 8A did get a lot deeper thanks to reclassification.

MY OFFICIAL PICKS St. Frances (I want to take Central so badly.... but... Pinkos has them as a huge underdog) St. Thomas Aquinas Deerfield Beach Venice Trinity Christian Armwood Raines American Heritage MIami Northwestern Lakeland

Thanks to @nolebull813 for stepping up to help run this. I am going to go with most of the games NoleBull suggested except two. While I like the Rockledge/Ware County game, I feel like I can go better there. I don't want to overpopulate the pick' ems with the out-of-state teams and I think two is enough with the Miami Central and Aquinas games already. Also, I don't think Godby/Lincoln is going to be as good as looks on paper. Looks can be deceiving sometimes... maybe I am wrong. St. Frances, Md. vs. Miami Central at Traz Powell (Saturday) St. Thomas Aquinas at De La Salle, Calif. Deerfield Beach vs. Miami Carol City at Traz Powell (Saturday) IMG Academy at Venice Trinity Christian (Jacksonville) at Columbia Plant at Armwood Jones at Raines American Heritage (Delray) at Vero Beach Cardinal Gibbons vs. Miami Northwestern at Traz Powell Lakeland at Manatee Thread locks down at 5 PM Friday afternoon, one hour before the first game on Friday which will be Jones at Raines (6 PM kickoffs in Duval County this year). EDIT: Joe Pinkos Week 1 Forecast here: https://floridahsfootball.com/2019/08/19/joe-pinkos-joe-pinkos-week-1-statewide-game-forecast/

Well... that is why I have them ranked in the Top 5. 7A is stacked!

NSU... that is one team that had a lot of young talent last year. I wouldn't want to second guess them this year. But maybe I am wrong and I have to eat my words.

They are back in their proper classification. Should have never moved up.

No... North Marion came ready, Trinity just looked too far ahead. But Trinity is very loaded.

I may have put Winter Park too low in my Region ranking... I am going to have to adjust it... DP has got a lot to prove after the way they struggled last season.