JACKSONVILLE – The Lakeland Dreadnaughts are a unanimous #1 in this week's Beef 'O' Brady's Top 25, Florida's only all-classification football poll.
Lakeland received all 17 first place votes and continues to be perched on top of the poll, followed by defending 3A champion (now 2A) Jacksonville Bolles, 5A runner-up from last year, St. Thomas Aquinas at third and 4A power Miami Washington at fourth. Miami Central (6A) remains #5. Immokalee (3A), which won the 2A crown last year, remains #6 followed by Tampa Hillsborough (4A), Orlando Edgewater (6A), Madison County (2A) and defending #1 and 4A champion Seffner Armwood at #10. Miami Northwestern slipped two spots to #11.
Four new teams entered the poll in a shake-up of the lower ten. Gone this week are former #14 Niceville, after a 17-14 loss to Gainesville at home; #19 Palm Beach Gardens lost to unranked Vero Beach 25-16; #23 Miami Carol City lost its second game of the season and fell out of the poll; #24 Neptune Beach Fletcher was upended by Bartram Trail and fell out as well.
Entering the poll this week at slots 22-25 are: at #22, 5A Fort Myers, at 6-0 the Greenies are poised for another playoff run; at #23, 3A Lakeland Kathleen, also 6-0 and has a tough match with Monsignor Pace this week; at #24 Jacksonville Raines, a 3A power which has a huge game with #2 Jacksonville Bolles this week - and re-entering the poll after a five week absence is St. Augustine Nease, a 4A team at 4-1 with a battle against #14 St. Augustine this week.
RN School Class W/L LW Pts. UP NEXT
1 Lakeland(17) 5A 6-0 1 425 vs. Centennial (Port St. Lucie)
2 Bolles (Jax.) 2A 5-0 2 396 vs. #25 Raines (Jacksonville)
3 St. Thomas Aquinas (Ft. Laud.)5A 5-0 3 380 at Deerfield Beach
4 Miami Washington 4A 5-0 4 377 BYE
5 Miami Central 6A 4-0 5 354 at Miami Carol City
6 Immokalee 3A 5-0 6 336 at Gulf Coast
7 Hillsborough (Tampa) 4A 6-0 7 326 at Plant (Tampa)
8 Edgewater (Orlando) 6A 5-0 8 301 BYE
9 Madison County 2A 5-0 10 287 BYE
10 Armwood (Seffner) 4A 4-1 11 257 at Middleton (Tampa)
11 Miami Northwestern 6A 3-0 9 253 at Columbus (Miami)
12 East Ridge (Clermont) 6A 6-0 T12 223 BYE
13 Glades Central (Belle Glade) 3A 4-0 T12 216 at Dillard (Ft. Lauderdale)
14 St. Augustine 3A 6-0 15 198 at #25 Nease (St. Augustine)
15 South Dade (Homestead) 6A 5-0 17 169 at Miami
16 Trinity Catholic (Ocala) 2B 6-0 16 157 at Suwannee (Live Oak)
17 American Heritage (Plantation)2A 6-0 18 122 BYE
18 Blountstown 2B 5-0 T20 116 at Berkeley Prep (Tampa)
19 Dwyer (Palm Beach Gardens) 4A 6-0 T20 115 BYE
20 Mainland (Daytona Beach) 5A 5-1 22 112 vs. Seminole (Sanford)
21 Hollywood Hills 5A 6-0 25 67 BYE
22 Fort Myers 5A 6-0 HM 52 at Estero
23 Kathleen (Lakeland) 3A 6-0 HM 48 vs. Monsignor Pace (Miami)
24 Raines (Jacksonville) 3A 6-0 HM 37 at #2 Bolles (Jacksonville)
25 Nease (St. Augustine) 4A 4-1 HM 25 vs. #14 St. Augustine
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Gainesville 5A, 5-1, 19; Pace 3A, 6-0, 18; Pahokee 2B, 4-1, 18; Countryside (Clearwater) 5A, 6-0, 16; Hardee (Wauchula) 3A, 6-0, 15; South Sumter (Bushnell) 2A, 5-1, 13; Chaminade Prep (Hollywood) 2A, 3-2, 12; Vero Beach 6A, 6-0, 12; Miami Carol City 6A, 2-2, 8; Niceville 5A, 4-1, 8; Palm Bay 5A, 5-1, 7; Jefferson (Tampa) 4A, 4-2, 6; Kings Academy (West Palm Beach) 2B, 5-0, 6; Palm Beach Gardens 6A, 5-1, 6; Washington (Pensacola)3A, 5-1, 5; Monsignor Pace (Miami)3A, 4-1, 2; Fletcher (Neptune Beach)5A, 4-1, 1; Jesuit (Tampa)3A, 6-0, 1; Cocoa 3A, 5-1, 1; Atlantic (Delray Beach) 5A, 3-2, 1; Riverdale (Fort Myers) 3A, 6-0, 1
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