SPB's High School Football

The New Haven Register’s Top 10 High School Football Poll, now in its 47th year, has finally hit the virtual newsstands.

And here you go:

Preseason
Team…………………………..Points…………Last
1. New Canaan (13-0) (15)……..596………………1
2. Hamden (9-3) (5)……………..555……………NR
3. Masuk (12-1)…………………..479…………….3
4. Shelton (7-4)…………………..316…………….NR
5. Seymour (11-2)……………….301…………….NR
6. New Britain (8-3)……………..295……………NR
7. Montville (9-3)…………………283……………NR
8. Greenwich (8-3)……………….281……………NR
9. Hand (7-4)……………………..280…………..NR
10. Ansonia (12-2)………………277…………….10

Dropped out: Glastonbury (2), New London (4), Brookfield (5), Darien (6), Cromwell (7), Hillhouse (8), Cheshire (9).

First-place votes in parentheses after record.

Others receiving votes: Cromwell (12-1), 268; Notre Dame-West Haven (4-6), 182; New London (12-1), 158; Brookfield (12-1), 146; Staples (6-5), 128; Cheshire (10-3), 115; Glastonbury (1) (13-0) and Ledyard (10-3), 96; Ridgefield (8-3), 82; Darien (11-2), 62; Crosby (9-2), 59; Hillhouse (11-1), 53; Pomperaug (6-5), 45; Xavier (7-4), 42; Berlin (6-4), 40; Southington (7-4), 34; Bunnell (9-2), 27; West Haven (6-4), 16; Trumbull (7-3) and Windsor (9-3), 10; Bloomfield (5-6), 9; East Lyme (4-7) and Wilbur Cross (6-5), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, SportingNewsCT.com; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; Henry Chisholm, Connecticut Post; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, Norwalk Hour; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, The Herald of New Britain; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Paul Nichols, Middletown Press; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

My quick take: This is much, much better than the inaugural CSWA poll.

Nothing too, too crazy up there.  (No Cantons or Cheney Techs getting votes).

Glastonbury, Cromwell and Brookfield are out of the Top 10 and replaced (rightly, I believe) with Montville, Shelton and Hand

New Canaan is your No. 1 (which I didn’t agree with in my Elite 8… but whatever.  Voters seem to like saying it is the defending No. 1′s ranking to lose) Ansonia is about where I thought they’d be, Seymour a tad high for my tastes, but whatever.

Overall, it’s a good opening ranking, in my opinion.

We’ll take your comments now.