Published Oct 20, 2022
How the Top Ten Teams Fared: 10/14/22 Weekend (Week 8)
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Matthew Hatfield  •  VirginiaPreps
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There were a bunch of surprises last week in Virginia High School Football as literally 14 of the 60 ranked teams in our Top Tens fell. Of those 14 that went down, ten of them lost to unranked squads.

Taking the biggest hits were the Class 5 members as half of the ranked schools all went down to unranked opponents.

In terms of the highest ranked team in the classifications to go down, it was No. 3 King's Fork, despite outgaining two-time defending Class 6 State Champ Oscar Smith by 158 yards, going down 52-21 at home.

See how the Top Ten Teams in all six classifications did below...


* Note - Hyperlinks of schools goes to our Team Preview from the 2022 Preseason Top Ten Countdown


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Class 6 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Freedom-PW

8-0

W 68-6 over Woodbridge

2

Oscar Smith

6-0

W 52-21 over King's Fork

3

Battlefield

7-0

W 23-7 over Unity Reed

4

Lake Braddock

7-0

W 35-20 over Robinson

5

Thomas Dale

7-0

W 41-12 over Hopewell

6

Centreville

5-2

L 18-21 to Madison

7

Western Branch

7-1

W 56-3 over Hickory

8

South County

6-1

W 35-28 over West Springfield

9

Patriot

7-0

W 35-14 over Osbourn

10

Fairfax

7-0

W 78-0 over W.T. Woodson

Class 5 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Highland Springs

8-0

W 55-7 over Hanover

2

Green Run

7-0

W 63-0 over Ocean Lakes

3

Stone Bridge

6-1

Idle

4

Maury

5-1

W 54-6 over Manor

5

Mountain View

6-1

L 8-12 to Colonial Forge

6

Kempsville

7-1

W 14-10 over Salem-VB

7

Independence

6-1

L 12-21 to Briar Woods

8

Midlothian

6-1

L 30-31 to Manchester in 2OT

9

Douglas Freeman

6-1

L 14-28 to Hermitage

10

Patrick Henry-Roanoke

5-2

L 28-34 to Cave Spring

Class 4 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Varina

7-0

W 46-14 over Atlee

2

Dinwiddie

7-0

W 42-0 over Petersburg

3

King's Fork

6-1

L 21-52 to Oscar Smith

4

Salem

6-1

Idle

5

Louisa

8-0

W 49-7 over Orange County

6

King George

6-0

W 56-6 over Chancellor

7

Loudoun County

7-0

W 27-7 over Lightridge

8

Kettle Run

8-0

W 52-32 over Millbrook

9

E.C. Glass

6-1

W 55-6 over Jefferson Forest

10

Warwick

7-1

W 21-10 over Heritage-NN

Class 3 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Phoebus

7-0

W 62-0 over Kecoughtan

2

Liberty Christian

7-0

W 14-6 over Heritage-Lynchburg

3

Lake Taylor

6-1

W 34-19 over Churchland

4

Heritage-Lynchburg

5-2

L 6-14 to Liberty Christian

5

Brookville

5-2

W 62-13 over Liberty-Bedford

6

Lord Botetourt

6-1

W 41-27 over William Fleming

7

Lafayette

6-1

W 35-0 over King William

8

Brentsville District

7-1

W 55-14 over William Monroe

9

Staunton

7-0

W 14-12 over Fort Defiance

10

Bassett

5-2

W 50-14 over Tunstall

Class 2 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Graham

7-0

W 49-21 over Virginia High

2

Ridgeview

7-0

W 42-6 over John Battle

3

Radford

7-0

Idle

4

Luray

6-1

L 14-35 to East Rockingham

5

Central-Woodstock

7-1

W 52-7 over Skyline

6

TJ-Richmond

7-0

W 21-0 over J.R. Tucker

7

Strasburg

6-1

W 42-14 over Madison County

8

Martinsville

6-1

L 16-28 to Magna Vista

9

King William

4-3

L 0-35 to Lafayette

10

Virginia High

5-2

L 21-49 to Graham

Class 1 Top Ten Review:
RankTeamRecordResult

1

Essex

7-0

W 66-12 over Colonial Beach

2

Riverheads

5-1

W 41-21 over Wilson Memorial

3

Central-Lunenburg

8-0

W 47-6 over Prince Edward

4

Galax

4-3

L 7-20 to George Wythe

5

King & Queen

5-1

Idle

6

Grayson County

7-0

W 34-14 over Giles

7

Narrows

5-1

W 44-38 over Covington

8

Patrick Henry-GS

5-2

Idle

9

Buffalo Gap

4-3

L 12-17 to Stuarts Draft

10

Northumberland

4-2

W 20-14 over Westmoreland


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