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Week 9

High School football Weekly Top-10 Rankings

Oct 30, 2023 | 2:05 PM

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all four Tiers of 12-man high school football in Alberta and the 6-man rankings as well for the 2023 season.

These rankings come out every Sunday until November 6. At that time, those will be the last rankings and teams will take this rank into Provincials

The teams are slotted into Tiers based on their estimated school size by the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association. Some re-sorting of Tier’s will take place after the final officials population numbers are recorded at the end of September. Please note that games vs. US opponents, scrimmages, or tournaments are not taken into consideration for ranking or listed in the overall record of the schools.

WEEK #9 – 2023

October 29, 2023

Tier I (School Pop. 1250 +)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Raymond (4-0) Raymond beat Foothills 49-0 (next vs. L.C.I.)

2(2) Harry Ainlay (9-0-1) Edmonton beat Austin O’Brien 42-6 (next vs. Paul Kane)

3(3) Ernest Manning (6-0) Calgary did not play (next vs. All Saints)

4(5) George McDougall (10-0) Airdrie beat Cochrane 36-5 (next vs. Foothills)

5(6) Paul Kane (6-3) St. Albert beat Bev Facey 7-0 (next vs. Harry Ainlay)

6(7) Notre Dame (5-3) Calgary did not play (next vs. St. Francis)

7(7) St. Francis (6-2) Calgary beat Centennial 35-3 (next vs. Notre Dame (CGY))

10(10) All Saints (6-3) Calgary beat Henry Wise Wood 30-9 (next vs. Ernest Manning)

8(8) Foothills (4-3-1) Okotoks lost to Raymond 0-49 (next vs. George McDougall)

9(9) Bev Facey (7-3) Sherwood Park lost to Paul Kane 0-7 (next BYE into Provincials)

* last week’s rank in parentheses.

Tier II (School Pop. 750-1249)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent

1(2) St. Joseph’s (7-1) Grande Prairie beat Peace Wapiti 42-6 (next vs. Sexsmith)

2(3) Holy Trinity Aca. (7-1) Okotoks beat Strathmore 50-0 (next vs. Springbank)

3(7) Hunting Hills (5-1) Red Deer beat Lacombe 38-23 (next vs. Notre Dame (RD))

4(8) Medicine Hat (6-2-1) Medicine Hat beat Crescent Heights (MH) 41-14 (next vs. Catholic Central)

5(6) Austin O’Brien (4-4) Edmonton lost to Harry Ainlay 6-42 (next BYE into Provincials)

6(4) Cochrane (6-2) Cochrane lost to George McDougall 5-36 (next vs. Strathmore)

7(9) Bishop Carroll (7-0) Calgary beat Western Canada 18-11 (next vs. Joane Cardinal-Schubert)

8(10) Bellerose (8-1) St. Albert beat St. Francis Xavier 48-6 (next vs. Sturgeon)

9(5) Strathmore (6-1) Strathmore lost to Holy Trinity Academy 0-50 (next vs. Cochrane)

10(-) Sturgeon (5-3) Sturgeon County beat Archbishop Jordan 20-7 (next vs. Bellerose)

Tier III (School Pop. 450-749)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Holy Rosary (7-1) Lloydminster beat Bonnyville 44-0 (next vs. St. Paul)

2(2) Olds (6-2) Cold Lake beat Canmore 49-20 (next BYE into Provincials)

3(3) Whitecourt (4-3) Whitecourt beat Valleyview 53-0 (next vs. Fort McMurray)

4(4) Ardrossan (7-1) Ardrossan beat Lillian Osborne 17-16 (next vs. M.E. LaZerte)

5(5) Cardston (4-3) Cardston beat Winston Churchill 44-0 (next BYE into Provincials)

6(7) Bonnyville (3-4) Bonnyville lost to Holy Rosary 0-44 (next BYE into Provincials)

7(8) Crescent Heights (3-5) Medicine Hat lost to Medicine Hat 14-41 (next BYE into Provincials

8(10) Stettler (1-6) Stettler beat Sylvan Lake 14-6 (next BYE into Provincials)

9(6) Sylvan Lake (1-6) Sylvan Lake lost to Stettler 6-14 (season over)

10(9) Winston Churchill (2-5) Lethbridge lost to Cardston 0-44 (season over)

Tier IV (School Pop. 449 or less)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Drumheller (7-0) Drumheller did not play (next vs. Canmore)

2(2) Sexsmith (7-1) Sexsmith beat Grande Prairie 44-0 (next vs. St. Joseph’s (GP))

3(3) W.R. Myers (5-1) Taber did not play (next vs. Willow Creek)

4(4) St. Paul (5-2) St. Paul beat Cold Lake 42-7 (next vs. Holy Rosary)

5(5) Willow Creek (1-5) Claresholm did not play (next vs. W.R. Myers)

6(6) Canmore (2-5) Canmore lost to Olds 20-49 (next vs. Drumheller)

7(7) Valleyview (1-5) Valleyview lost to Whitecourt 0-53 (season over)

8(8) High Prairie (1-5) High Prairie lost to Fort McMurray 6-62 (next BYE into Provincials)

9(9) Highwood (2-5) High River beat Carstairs 32-20 (season over)

10(10) Wainwright (0-7) Wainwright did not play (next BYE into Provincials)

6-a-side

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Week Result and Upcoming opponent

1(1) Millwoods Christian(5-0)Edmonton beat Rimbey 20-13 (next BYE into Provincials)

2(2) J.C. Charyk (5-1) Hanna beat Hinton 88-12 (next BYE into Provincials)

3(3) Holy Redeemer (4-2) Edson beat Breton 61-12 (next vs. Rimbey)

4(4) Breton (4-3) Breton lost to Holy Redeemer 12-61 (next vs. Hinton)

5(5) Frank Maddock (5-0) Drayton Valley did not play (next week BYE)

GAME(S) OF THE WEEK:

Championship Saturday!

No true Game of the Week this week as all of the listed opponents above are for some kind of championship. The vast majority of them are on Saturday including the next Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association Telus (Channel 1985) broadcast of the Metro Edmonton Division I Championship Game between the Harry Ainlay Titans and Paul Kane Blues at 5:30 p.m. live from Clarke Stadium in Edmonton.

Check your local listings for any other game you may be interested in. Next week’s release will have the match-ups for the first round of the 2023 ASAA Provincial Regional Semi-Finals.