Class A Week 1 Rankings

I don’t believe Tonkawa is this high, from what I am hearing they are down. They struggled with a not very good Blackwell team. I think they will struggle to make playoffs in their tough district.

Three teams from A-3 in the top 5?  Possibly.  After all these are your rankings and they really are not bad.  I don't think Ringling nor Wynnewood is ready to placed in the top 10.  Only 1 A-1 team in the top ten even though in the last two years they have sent 3 teams to the Semis?  They can't get no love in Northwest Oklahoma.  Overall, pretty good list.  You can make valid arguments for every team you have and I think they are in the right positions.  There are so many teams that are interchangeable especially 6-15 its tough to do.

Well Minco only best Dibble by 14 last year...soooo.... hopefully not too much improved.

Without a quarterback, hopefully ours plays better this week than last!

Well it's kind of hard to leave out a Ringling team that has only loss 3 games the last 2 years to Minco, CHA and Hooker. The last 2 made it the the Semi finals after beating them and Minco made it to the 3rd round. A-1 will be way down this year outside of Thomas. I expect Thomas to run through everybody in A-1 with relative ease. I believe Hooker will go back to being what they were before which was an avg to below avg team and Fairview is in a rebuilding year with basically losing most of their starters from a year ago. Usually teams like Hooker that historically haven't been very good all of a sudden have a couple really good season or even win a state championship usually go back to being what they were before that sudden success after the group that got them that success graduates and i expect that to happen to Hooker. Just look at Stratford, Wayne and Afton as examples. Also you have to remember Wynnewood still has about 5 players that started on that 2016 State Runner-up Team. They have been starting since they were freshman including the QB even tho he sat out last year to focus on basketball.

@oldblue760

Ringling is a top ten team, but don't tell anyone. *wink, wink.

Dude, do you just read over the part where I say I like your rankings. And I never said Hooker should be in the top 10. Just stated you have 1 team from A-1 in the top 10 when they have had three teams in the Semis the last two years. Thomas hasn’t always been in A-1. And no Hookers winning started in 2014. Yes, I realize they went 4-6 but that is the year the team, the program said we are going to do things different. Since, they’ve been one of the best teams in A-1, things won’t change anytime soon. Wynnewood has sucked the last two years and lost to a good Minco team and you’re already putting them in the top 10. I don’t have a problem with it. I like it but I think there are other teams, yes in A-1, that are going to better than Wynnewood is right now. Yes, I know Fairview will be lucky to win a game this year. Again, my point is A-1 has been a pretty darn good district the last few years. That’s fact. It just seems year in and year out, people don’t think A-1 has any talent or there teams are not any good. When will we learn?

A-1 is historically a weak District. I think you need to do more research there. And as far as Hooker started winning that is something you have no idea about. You look at records and not the culture of the town or the program. Why is it that you see all these Western Oklahoma small schools dropping to 8 man yet, Hooker hasn’t? Hooker had some rough years from 2003-2013. I think they went on an 81 game losing streak at one point in time and had low numbers, maybe 15 kids out for 11 man football during that stretch. Yet, in 2014 really 2013, a group decided...were better than this, we need to be more competitive and because of that you are seeing it pay off. 2 wins in 2013 turned into 3 wins in 2014, to 8 wins in 2015, 7 wins in 2016, to 12 wins in 2017, to 11 wins in 2018...and in my opinion that goes back to the year 2013. Hooker will win 10 games in 2019 winning 10+ games for the third year in a row. Will they go deep in the playoffs...I dunno. But I do know they can play and they’ll compete, and they won’t give up. There is a competitive and winning football culture there right now just as much as there is in Ringling, Thomas, Wynnewood, etc (Now I know you will try to twist my words and think I’m saying Hooker has as good of a tradition as those schools but, I’m not saying that) ...as far as them losing 28-0 to Crossings last year, yeh they lost. Got crushed. It happens. I mean Wynnewood lost to Gore in the first round, possibly could lose in the first round this year. So losing happens. This is also not a debate about Hooker or Wynnewood. Both schools will be solid this year.

I for one love Western Oklahoma football. Lots of tradition in Western Oklahoma and it’s dying. I like to keep it alive. Every year it seems to me that people forget about these schools and every year people are shocked when one of these schools make a deep playoff run. It doesn’t just happen in football, it happens in all sports out in Western Oklahoma.

Again, I like your rankings. Just in my opinion I don’t think I’d put Ringling at #7 or Wynnewood at #10 but like I said you can argue any team in the 6-15 range why they should be there. Again, you seem to have every team in the right spot in your rankings. Sometimes when you look at things as an outsider, it’s a not what have you done, what have you done recently.