Saline, Chelsea atop AnnArbor.com's premature Week 1 football power rankings
The Chelsea High School cheerleaders have good reason to smile with the Bulldogs football team near the top of the AnnArbor.com power rankings.
Brianne Bowen | AnnArbor.com file photo
The rankings will get a little easier next week when more area teams begin to play each other and common opponents. Southeastern Conference teams playing each other as part of their non-conference schedule in Week 2 will be Ypsilanti and Saline, Dexter and Skyline, Whitmore Lake and Father Gabriel Richard, and Lincoln and Huron. Chelsea's game against Belleville should also provide somewhat of a gauge as Lincoln played the Tigers in Week 1.
So even though the case for each of these teams, good or bad, will be based on very little, we’ll give it a shot anyway:
Washtenaw County Power Rankings:
Rank, School (Record), Latest result
- Saline (1-0), def. A.B. Lucas, 42-0
- Chelsea (0-1), lost to Lansing Sexton, 21-14
- Father Gabriel Richard (1-0), def. Lake Fenton, 25-13
- Lincoln (1-0), def. Belleville, 30-9
- Skyline (1-0), def. Hartland, 28-10
- Pioneer (0-1), lost to Birmingham Seaholm, 24-0
- Milan (1-0), def. Ypsilanti, 13-6
- Huron (1-0), def. Windsor Massey, 42-10
- Ypsilanti Community (0-1), lost to Milan, 13-6
- Manchester (0-1), lost to Clinton, 26-14
- Dexter (0-1), lost to Fowlerville, 17-10
- Whitmore Lake (1-0), def. Stockbridge, 32-22
Comments
dading dont delete me bro
Tue, Sep 3, 2013 : 4:56 p.m.
how can chelsea rank #2? i would say no higher than #5, losing the first week. lincoln blew out belleville, huron over massey? um.
Pete Cunningham
Tue, Sep 3, 2013 : 10:36 p.m.
Not all opponents are created equally. A win over Massey doesn't really tell me anything about Huron, just like a close loss to good Sexton team in a game that featured a three-hour break in the middle doesn't really tell me anything about Chelsea. Be careful about how high you want me to rank Lincoln, Chris Westfall has told me on many occasions "don't rank us above Chelsea until we beat them. We don't deserve it." Depending on what I see out of both teams I could go against Westfall's wishes, but in the end it's the final ranking that matters as that one will be based on who has the most successful season.