Ensworth and Riverdale enter Tennessee Top 10 high school football rankings

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The top six teams in the first in-season High School Football America Tennessee Top 10, powered by NFL Play Football, hold their preseason spots after picking-up wins last weekend. No. 7 Summit and No. 10 Powell, the state’s defending 5A champ, lost their season openers and drop-out of the latest statewide rankings.

Entering the Top 10 are Ensworth and Riverdale at No. 8 and No. 9 respectively.

No. 1 Lipscomb Academy and No. 2 Oakland have big out-of-state games this week.

LA, coming-off a 17-7 win over No. 65 Milton in last week’s Freedom Bowl in Atlanta, travels to three-time Alabama 7A champ Thompson. The Mustangs started the season ranked No. 29 in the High School Football America 100 preseason national rankings. Thompson, which lost last week to No. 3 Buford, will probably from their preseason No. 17 when the first in-season national rankings come-out Sunday.

Two-time 6A champ Oakland opened with a 42-0 win over Hendersonville. This week, the Patriots, ranked No. 39 in our preseason rankings, will host Madison-Ridgeland Academy from Mississippi.

MRA is 2-0 and ranked No. 143 in our Preseason 300.

High School Football America Tennessee Top 10

Ranking/TeamRecordLast Week
No. 1 Lipscomb Academy(1-0)1
No. 2 Oakland(1-0)2
No. 3 McCallie(1-0)3
No. 4 Maryville(1-0)4
No. 5 Alcoa(1-0)5
No. 6 Christ Presbyterian Academy(1-0)6
No. 7 Montgomery Bell Academy(1-0)8
No. 8 Ensworth(1-0)NR
No. 9 Riverdale(1-0)NR
No. 10 Ravenwood(0-1)9

Dropped-out: No. 7 Summit, No. 10 Powell

Editor’s Note: The High School Football America national, regional and state rankings are developed using our proprietary algorithm.

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Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.