Maryland high school football rankings: Preseason media poll

DeMatha is preseason No. 1. Montgomery County's Good Counsel, Quince Orchard, Damascus, Northwest crack the top seven.

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“FREDERICK, Md. — The Maryland High School Football State Poll, in its 27th year, is based on a statewide voting by sports reporters. Schools are ranked by points received. The number in parenthesis reflects first-place votes. LY is last year’s final rank. The rankings are compiled by Sheldon Shealer.” — mdprepfootball.com

RankNameRecordPointsLY*This Week
1DeMatha (9)0-02972vs. Oscar Smith (Va.)
2Good Counsel (3)0-02905
3McDonogh0-02746vs. Gonzaga (D.C.)
4Quince Orchard0-024417
5Eleanor Roosevelt0-0234NR
6Northwest0-022916
7Damascus0-02183
8Wise0-02124
9Archbishop Spalding0-02007
10Bullis0-0178NR
11Riverdale Baptist0-0167NRvs. No. 12 Bishop McNamara
12Bishop McNamara0-015914vs. No. 11 Riverdale Baptist
13Howard0-015410
14Mount St. Joseph0-01338
15St. Frances0-0128NRvs. Avalon School
16Calvert Hall0-0114NRvs. St. Mary’s Ryken
17Broadneck0-010018
18Fort Hill0-09413
19Franklin0-07721
20Old Mill0-07119
21Patuxent0-06423
22Potomac0-058NR
23Gilman0-0521
24Georgetown Prep0-032NR
25Walkersville0-02525

Others receiving votes: Paint Branch (0-0, 19 points), Sherwood (0-0, 16), Douglass-PG (0-0, 14), Linganore (0-0, 14), St. Vincent Pallotti (0-0, 12), North Point (0-0, 11), Oxon Hill (0-0, 8), Seneca Valley (0-0, 1), Tuscarora (0-0, 1)

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Kyle McFadden is a graduate from Linganore High's Class of 2014 and is a sports enthusiast. He got his start as a sports writer in January 2014 for LHS's student newspaper The Lance where he wrote 13 articles. McFadden then launched his own blog in October 2014 called The Beltway Dispatch covering collegiate, local high school, and professional sports. Formally known as The Beltway Dispatch, McFadden and Evan Engelhard merged each other's respective platforms in June 2015 to make what is now Maryland Sports Access. He brings plenty of sports knowledge to the helm of MSA as he has baseball, basketball and golf experience. McFadden covers a wide variety of sports in football, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and specializes in the collegiate and high school level's. McFadden is volunteers his time at Damascus Road Community Church -- serving as a mentor to the youth, basketball coach at the varsity and junior varsity levels, and leads a small group of high school sophomores every Wednesday night. Although he has only been around journalism since January 2014, his work has appeared in Maryland newspapers such as The Daily Times (Delmarva Now), The Hometown Observer, Germantown Pulse, and regularly in the The Frederick News-Post. He's also won two Frederick News-Post Mike Powell Excellence in Journalism awards and has appeared on The Best of SNO, which showcases top student work of high school and college journalists. McFadden also holds positions at The Frederick News-Post as a freelance sports journalist, DMVelite as a high school basketball writer and analyst, MocoFootball.com as a Maryland high school football analyst, and as a staff writer for Maryland's Yahoo! Rivals. McFadden currently studies at Frederick Community College and plans to transfer to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2017 to work on a bachelor's degree in business and journalism as he has aspirations to be a columnist for ESPN.
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