By Football Alberta

As of Sept. 12, 2022

Football Alberta High School Football Rankings Week #2

Sep 13, 2022 | 10:25 AM

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 2022 season.

These rankings will come out every Sunday until November 7. At that time, those will be the last rankings and teams will take that rank into Provincials.

The teams are slotted into Tiers based on their estimated school size over a three-year average by the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association. 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 #1 – 2022

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Tier I (School Pop. 1250 +)

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

1(1) Harry Ainlay (2-0) Edmonton did not play (next vs. Bellerose)

2(2) Salisbury (2-0) Sherwood Park beat Spruce Grove 48-21 (next vs. Ross Sheppard)

3(3) Raymond (1-1) Raymond beat St. Joseph’s (SK) 47-24 (next vs. Ernest Manning)

4(4) Notre Dame (1-1) Calgary beat Holy Cross (SK) 16-8 (next week BYE)

5(5) L.C.I. (2-0) Lethbridge beat All Saints 45-17 (next vs. Cardston)

6(6) St. Francis (0-1) Calgary did not play (next vs. Henry Wise Wood)

7(7) Ernest Manning (2-0) Calgary beat Holy Rosary 29-13 (next vs. Raymond)

8(8) Foothills (2-0) Okotoks beat Notre Dame (RD) 30-14 (next vs. Holy Trinity Academy)

9(9) Fort McMurray (2-0) Fort McMurray beat Sexsmith 29-14 (next vs. St. Joseph’s (GP))

10(-) Spruce Grove (0-1) Spruce Grove lost to Salisbury 21-48 (next vs. Bev Facey)

* last week’s rank in parentheses.

Tier II (School Pop. 750-1249)

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

1(1) Holy Trinity Aca. (3-0) Okotoks beat Bert Church 72-7 (next vs. Foothills)

2(2) Cardston (2-0) Cardston beat Catholic Central 14-12 (next vs. L.C.I.)

3(3) W.H. Croxford (3-0) Airdrie beat Bow Valley 24-7 (next vs. Springbank)

4(4) St. Joseph’s (1-2) Grande Prairie beat Grande Prairie 49-8 (next vs. For McMurray)

5(5) George McDougall (2-1) Airdrie beat Springbank 40-7 (next vs. Strathmore)

6(6) Bellerose (1-0-1) St. Albert tied Ross Sheppard 22-22 (next vs. Harry Ainlay)

7(-) Austin O’Brien (1-0) Edmonton beat Bev Facey 27-2 (next week BYE)

8(7) Lady of the Rockies (1-0) Calgary beat Robert Thirsk 16-8 (next vs. Sir Winston Churchill)

9(8) Lacombe (0-0) Lacombe did not play (next vs. Lindsay Thurber)

10(9) Medicine Hat (2-1) Medicine Hat beat Lloydminster 10-9 (next vs. McCoy))

Tier III (School Pop. 450-749)

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

1(1) Cochrane (2-0) Cochrane did not play (next vs. Bow Valley)

2(2) Holy Rosary (2-1) Lloydminster lost to Ernest Manning 13-29 (next vs. Lloydminster)

3(3) Sylvan Lake (1-0) Sylvan Lake beat Bonnyville 47-7 (next vs. Hunting Hills)

4(4) Stettler (1-0) Stettler beat Drumheller 49-21 (next vs. Notre Dame (RD))

5(6) Sturgeon (1-0) Sturgeon County beat Fort Saskatchewan 65-0 (next vs. Ardrossan)

6(7) St. Albert (1-0) St. Albert beat Holy Trinity (EDM) 37-7 (next vs. McNally)

7(8) Strathmore (1-1) Strathmore did not play (next vs. George McDougall)

8(9) Peace Wapiti (1-0) Grande Prairie beat Valleyview 34-0 (next vs. Grande Prairie)

9(5) Crescent Heights (1-1) Medicine Hat lost to W.R. Myers 7-23 (next vs. Brooks)

10(10) Cold Lake (0-1) Cold Lake did not play (next vs. Wainwright)

Tier IV (School Pop. 449 or less)

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

1(3) W.R. Myers (1-0) Taber beat Crescent Heights (MH) 23-7 (next vs. Chinook)

2(1) Sexsmith (1-1) Sexsmith lost to Fort McMurray 14-29 (next week BYE)

3(2) Drumheller (2-1) Drumheller lost to Stettler 21-49 (next vs. Canmore)

4(4) Willow Creek (0-2) Claresholm lost to Chinook 9-34 (next week BYE)

5(5) St. Paul (0-1) St. Paul did not play (next vs. Bonnyville)

6(6) Ardrossan (1-1) Ardrossan lost to M.E. LaZerte 7-29 (next vs. Sturgeon)

7(7) High Prairie (0-0-1) High Prairie tied Whitecourt 50-50 (next week BYE)

8(8) Canmore (0-1) Canmore did not play (next vs. Drumheller)

9(9) Wainwright (0-0) Wainwright did not play (next vs. Cold Lake)

10(10) Valleyview (0-1) Valleyview lost to Peace Wapiti 0-34 (next vs. Edson)

6-a-side

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

1(1) Millwoods Christian(0-0) Edmonton did not play (next vs. J.R. Robson)

2(2) J.C. Charyk (0-0) Hanna did not play (next vs. Our Lady of Mount Pleasant)

3(3) Rimbey (0-0) Rimbey did not play (next vs. Breton)

4(4) Breton (0-0) Breton did not play (next week Rimbey)

5(5) Buck Mountain (0-0) Buck Lake did not play (next week Westlock)

GAME(S) OF THE WEEK:

Local Bragging Rights Games

GAME #1 – #8 Foothills Falcons (Tier I) vs. #1 (Tier II) Holy Trinity Academy Knights

7:00 p.m., Friday, September 16, Knights Field at HTA (Okotoks)

GAME #2 – Lloydminster Barons (Tier II) vs. #2 (Tier III) Holy Rosary Raiders

4:00 p.m., Friday, September 16, Armstrong Field (Lloydminster)

There is nothing better than a cross-town rivalry between two excellent programs to spend a Friday night watching (or afternoon as it were for Game #2). Outside of the big cities and Strathcona County, you won’t find more high school football excellence than in the communities of Okotoks and Lloydminster respectfully. The annual tilts between the Falcons and Knights in Okotoks and the Barons and Raiders in Lloydminster are must-see events in their respective municipalities.

In Okotoks, Foothills dominated the competition with the Knights early on since HTA’s start in the 1990’s, but lately it’s been the Knights by a healthy margin. The Falcons population has moved them up to Tier I so it’s no longer a Tier II qualifier game, but don’t let that fool you – it will be wild at HTA on Friday.

In Lloydminster, the Barons are still on the outside looking in as far as rankings go in Tier II this season but they still put a quality product on the field each year and always have battles with the powerful Tier III sized Raiders every regular season. Alberta is the heartland of high school football in Canada and there will be no better representatives than these two games on Friday.