Georgia Kicks-Off 2008 High School Football Season

By Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle


The 2008 Georgia high school football season kicks-off Friday night with Aiken, South Carolina traveling to suburban Atlanta to face Berkmar. That will be followed by seven games on Saturday with the Corky Kell Classic at the Georgia Dome headlining the day with four match-ups.

Click here to go to the Georgia High School Football Huddle to check out the weekend schedule.

Meanwhile, the AJC Pre-Season rankings are out and Lowndes, a team that is getting notice from several national high school football polls, is the #1 team in Class AAAAA. Lowndes will be going for its fourth title (2003, 2004, 2007) in six years. The Vikings have 16 starters back from last year's championship team.

Making the class extremely interesting is the fact that Northside-Warner Robins is moving up from Class AAAA after two straight titles while going 30-0. Lowndes and and Northside will play in Region 1-AAAAA and face each other on October 3rd in Valdosta.

Here's all of the rankings....

Class AAAAA
1. Lowndes
2. Northside-Warner Robins
3. Camden County
4. M.L. King
5. Newnan
6. Grayson
7. Norcross
8. North Gwinnett
9. Valdosta
10. Harrison

Class AAAA
1. Ware County
2. Tucker
3. Westside-Macon
4. Thomas County Central
5. Rome
6. Griffin
7. Chamblee
8. Bainbridge
9. Habersham Central
10. Marist

Class AAA
1. Cairo
2. Carver-Columbus
3. Baldwin
4. LaGrange
5. Shaw
6. St. Pius X
7. Perry
8. Dunwoody
9. Carrollton
10. Flowery Branch

Class AA
1. Buford
2. Charlton County
3. Thomasville
4. Henry County
5. Westminster
6. Fitzgerald
7. Lovett
8. Dublin
9. Cook
10. Greater Atlanta Christian

Class A
1. ECI
2. Clinch County
3. Wilcox County
4. Lincoln County
5. Athens Academy
6. Savannah Christian
7. Bremen
8. Twiggs County
9. Brookstone
10. Wesleyan