Piedmont High School Football Rankings

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• 2:50 Recap: Cary vs. Clayton 2017
• 2:24 Recap: Clayton vs. Cary 2017

This Week's Big Showdown

One of the hottest tickets last week involved the clash between Pinecrest (95th in the state) and Richmond (62nd). Pinecrest has to be hurting after a devastating 28 - 7 defeat at the hands of Richmond. Pinecrest plummeted 507 positions in the national rankings after the loss.

Can't Touch This

Cape Fear was heavily favored to win coming into its game last week, and the results showcase why. The final score between it and Douglas Byrd was a 52 - 0 blowout in Cape Fear's favor. No one had a larger role in the success than junior Zaire Boykin, who brought his A game into the contest. He ran for 138 yards and also punched in one touchdown. In fact, our algorithms singled out Boykin as one of the top players in the power rankings for the week.

National Rank	School	Next Game	Movement
122	Wake Forest	vs. Knightdale	+7
315	Heritage	vs. Corinth Holders	-13
957	Lee County	vs. Harnett Central	-315
1178	Cape Fear	vs. Westover	-58
1195	Southern Nash	vs. Fike	-50
1392	Cardinal Gibbons	vs. Sanderson	-188
1638	Terry Sanford	vs. Douglas Byrd	-4
1655	Seventy-First	vs. Lumberton	-250
1704	Middle Creek	vs. Fuquay - Varina	-102
1774	Clayton	vs. South Johnston	-48
1865	Sanderson	vs. Cardinal Gibbons	-296
1909	Eastern Alamance	vs. Northern Guilford	+64
1916	Tarboro	vs. Pamlico County	-439
2257	Pinecrest	vs. Purnell Swett	-507
2339	Millbrook	vs. Leesville Road	+78
2509	E.E. Smith	vs. South View	+931
2709	Hillside	vs. Southern Durham	-391
2734	South View	vs. E.E. Smith	-296
2774	Green Hope	vs. Cary	-240
3042	Orange	vs. Northern	+1
3490	Fuquay - Varina	vs. Middle Creek	-492
3665	South Granville	vs. Warren County	-211
4103	Northern	vs. Orange	+79
4152	Fike	vs. Southern Nash	-163
4241	Cleveland	vs. East Wake	-259

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