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Here are your state polls for Thanksgiving Week.

Nothing’s changed.

Yawn.

NHR Media Top 10

Dropped Out: None.
Other teams receiving votes: Glastonbury (9-1), 247; North Branford (9-0), 197; Middletown (8-1), 192; West Haven (7-2), 171; Hillhouse (7-2), 170; New Canaan (8-1), 111; St. Joseph (7-2), 54; Hyde (9-0), 49; Berlin (8-1), 29; Wolcott (8-1), 23; Fitch (8-1), 20; New London (7-2), 9; Avon (10-0) and Oxford (7-2), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, West Hartford News/New Britain City Journal; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day Coaches Top 10

Also receiving votes: Hillhouse-New Haven (7-2), 110 points; Middletown (8-1), 102; Glastonbury (9-1), 98; New Canaan (8-1), 91; Wolcott (8-1), 55; West Haven (7-2), 48; Avon (10-0), 41; North Branford (9-0), 40; Berlin (8-1), 30; Tie, Fitch (8-1) and St. Joseph-Trumbull (7-2), 26; Hartford Capital/Classical/Achievement (9-0), 7.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Dave Cadelina, Bridgeport Central; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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Week 9 will be over Tuesday night at approximately 9 p.m. Week 10 begins not 24 hours later when Central heads up to Tiger Hollow to play playoff hopeful Ridgefield.

Then we begin four consecutive days of postponed games, including the ill-advised NVL Championship game between Ansonia and Woodland on Thursday night. Anyone who watched Wolcott demolish the Hawks last weekend should agree.

Everyone’s still scrambling to catch up before the final week of the regular season. Including us.

We still haven’t even reviewed Week 9. We still have to talk about and show you the highlights from Monday night’s SCC ‘battle’ between West Haven and Xavier. Now we’ve gotta jump into Week 10? Foof. Somebody stop the world for a moment.

Everyone catch your breath because there’s no rest for the weary from here until the state championship games at Rentschler… if we ever survive.

Anyway, here’s the latest state polls (The Day will be released soon). Not much change except to see West Haven drop and Norwich Free Academy leap into the fray. So peruse and discuss. It’s back to work for us. The Guide to the Games for Week 10 will also be out shortly.

NHR Media Top 10

Dropped Out: West Haven (9).
Other teams receiving votes: Glastonbury (8-1), 228; North Branford (8-0), 220; Middletown (8-1) and West Haven (7-2), 203; Hillhouse (7-2), 172; New Canaan (7-1), 87; Berlin (8-1), 54; Hyde (8-0), 42; Wolcott (8-1), 35; Fitch (7-1), 28; Trinity Catholic (7-1), 17; New London (7-2), 9; St. Joseph (6-2), 8.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, West Hartford News/New Britain City Journal; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day Top 10 Coaches

Dropped out: West Haven (8), and Berlin (10)

Also receiving votes: Glastonbury (7-1), 98 points; Hillhouse-New Haven (7-2), 97; Middletown (8-1), 96; New Canaan (7-1), 88; West Haven (7-2), 64; Wolcott (8-1), 61; North Branford (8-0), 50; Berlin (8-1), 44; Avon (9-0), 43; Fitch (7-1), 26; St. Joseph-Trumbull (6-2), 18; Tie, Hartford Capital/Classical/Acheivement (9-0) and Trinity Catholic-Stamford (7-1), 7.

The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Dave Cadelina, Bridgeport Central; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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The NH Register released its state polls for Week 7 and there’s little or no change. Voters have staked their claims, and now they’re sticking with it.

But, hey, what’s this?

Newtown makes its Top 10 debut. I do believe that’s called ‘Trending up’ for you once-disgruntled Newtown fans out there.

Congratulations, the state writers love you more than poor Glastonbury, which, despite it’s obvious talents, lost its first game of the year: a wild, 28-21 decision to Southington that just swung Southington’s way late.

Glastonbury drops three spots to No. 12.

In The Day of New London’s Top 10, the only significant change was Masuk leap-frogging Xavier from 6 to 5. Staples also picked up a first-place vote. Greenwich jumped from 9 to 7.

NHR Media Top 10

Dropped out: Glastonbury (9).
Other teams receiving votes: Berlin (6-0), 265; Glastonbury (5-1), 218; Norwich Free Academy (6-0), 167; North Branford (5-0), 141; Hillhouse (5-1), 128; Middletown (5-1), 102; Trinity Catholic (6-0), 86; Fairfield Prep (5-1), 70; Farmington (6-0), 50; New Canaan (5-1), 41; Hyde (6-0), 30; Wolcott (6-0), 21; Woodland (4-1), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, West Hartford News/New Britain City Journal; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day of New London Top 10

Dropped out: Glastonbury (8)
Also receiving votes: Norwich Free Academy (6-0), 108 points; Hillhouse-New Haven (5-1), 100; Newtown (6-0), 90; Glastonbury (5-1), 89; Trinity Catholic-Stamford (6-0), 67; Middletown (5-1), 62; New Canaan (5-1), 48; Wolcott (6-0), 29; Tie, Avon (6-0) and Fairfield Prep (5-1), 22; North Branford (5-0), 20; Barlow-Redding (6-0), 15.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Dave Cadelina, Bridgeport Central; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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Blowouts ruled Week 4 with nary an upset to be found among the ranks of the elite.

So, naturally, there was no movement in the latest Top 10 polls.

With several massive games upcoming this week — hello, SCC! — expect to see some shakeups.

For now, here you go:

NHR Top 10 Media

Other teams receiving votes: Southington (4-0), 269; Newtown (4-0), 253; North Branford (3-0), 142; Middletown (4-0), 136; Hillhouse (3-1), 131; St. Joseph (3-1), 96; Norwich Free Academy (4-0), 91; North Haven (3-1), 76; Fairfield Prep (3-1), 35; Trinity Catholic (4-0), 27; Farmington (4-0), 23; New Canaan (3-1), 15; Wolcott (4-0), 12; New London (3-1), 8; Darien (3-1) and Hyde (4-0), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, West Hartford News/New Britain City Journal; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day Top 10 Coaches

Also receiving votes: Southington (4-0), 113 points; Middletown (4-0), 96; Norwich Free Academy (4-0), 76; Hillhouse-New Haven (3-1), 74; Newtown (4-0), 66; St. Joseph-Trumbull (3-1), 53; New Canaan (3-1), 26; Trinity Catholic-Stamford (4-0), 25; Darien (3-1), 23; North Haven (3-1), 22; North Branford (3-0), 19; Tie, Avon (4-0) and Barlow-Redding (4-0), 15; Derby (3-1), 9; Farmington (4-0), 8; Tie, Hartford Capital/Classical/Achievement (4-0) and Wolcott (4-0), 7.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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Other than losing Ledyard (a 21-14 loser to Windham) and Darien (a 35-28 overtime loser to St. Joseph), and gaining back Berlin and Glastonbury, the only real change in the weekly state media poll were the No. 1 votes. Staples picked up two from Xavier.

It’s of minor importance, but interesting for you poll nuts.

Commence screaming.

NHR Media Top 10

Dropped Out: Ledyard (8), Darien (10).
Other teams receiving votes: New London (3-0), 281; Southington (3-0), 260; Newtown (3-0), 178; North Branford (3-0), 128; Hillhouse (2-1), 98; Middletown (3-0), 94; St. Joseph (2-1), 91; Manchester (3-0), 53; Darien (2-1), Ledyard (2-1) and Norwich Free Academy (3-0), 51; Cromwell (3-0), 30; Farmington (3-0), 22; Trinity Catholic (3-0) and Wolcott (3-0), 16; North Haven (2-1), 9; Fairfield Prep (2-1) and New Canaan (2-1), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, West Hartford News/New Britain City Journal; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day Coaches Poll

Also receiving votes: New London (3-0), 100 points; Tie, Middletown (3-0) and Southington (3-0), 91; Norwich Free Academy (3-0), 71; Hillhouse-New Haven (2-1), 63; St. Joseph-Trumbull (2-1), 46; Tie, Cromwell (3-0) and Newtown (3-0), 24; New Canaan (2-1), 20; Trinity Catholic-Stamford (3-0), 16; Tie, Brookfield (3-0) and Holy Cross-Waterbury (2-1), 14; North Branford (3-0), 12; Manchester (3-0), 10; Derby (2-1), 9; Barlow-Redding (3-0), Darien (2-1), Ledyard (2-1) and Torrington (1-2), 8; Tie, Avon (2-0) and Hartford Capital/Classical/Achievement (3-0), 7.

The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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Just a couple changes in the NHR’s Top 10 as we head into Week 2.

1. Hand lost a first-place vote.

2. Xavier gained two first-place votes.

3. New Canaan jumped two spots to No. 8

4. Kyle Brennan of the NVL Football Bog has joined the roll. Welcome.

Also, The Day of New London’s Top 10 Coaches Poll made its debut today. It’s similar at the top, much different at the bottom (including some love for the Westies and Masuk. We approve.)

So, let’s get pollin’!

Week 2 State Media Poll

Other teams receiving votes: Masuk (1-0), 250; West Haven (1-0), 244; Darien (1-0), 174; Southington (1-0), 163; Glastonbury (1-0), 161; North Branford (1-0), 93; Holy Cross (1-0), 90; Newtown (1-0), 77; Cheshire (1-0), 46; North Haven (1-0), 43; Cromwell (1-0) and New London (1-0), 33; Bunnell (1-0), 31; Norwich Free Academy (1-0), 29; Farmington (1-0), 24; Woodland (1-0), 19; Manchester (1-0), 12; Wolcott (1-0), 10; Middletown (1-0) and Montville (1-0), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Kyle Brennan, Waterbury Republican-American; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, Patch/West Hartford News; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

The Day state coaches poll

Also receiving votes: Berlin (1-0), 138 points; Hillhouse-New Haven (1-0), 133; Darien (1-0), 91; Ledyard (1-0), 87; Holy Cross-Waterbury (1-0), 54; Norwich Free Academy (1-0), 41; Newtown (1-0), 36; Tie, Cheshire (1-0) and Middletown (1-0), 34; New London (1-0), 29; Southington (1-0), 22; Cromwell (1-0), 21; Fairfield Prep (1-0), 14; Tie, North Branford (1-0) and Woodland-Beacon Falls (1-0), 10; St. Joseph-Trumbull (0-1), 9; Tie, Bunnell-Stratford (1-0), Conard-West Hartford (1-0), Farmington (1-0) at Montville (1-0), 8; Capital Prep/Classical Magnet/Achievement First-Hartford (1-0), 1-0.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Bunnell-Stratford; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.

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Nobody should have expected many surprises from ye ol’ NHR Media Poll, which was released just an hour ago:

Xavier, the two-time defending Class LL champions, winners of 26-straight games, straight outta the SCC, etc. etc., was voted the preseason No. 1.

Shocker.

Yes, Xavier lost 19 seniors from last year’s team and enter 2012 as an entirely new team. But it still has Boston College commit Tim Boyle, it has tailback DeAngelo Berry, it still looks like an all-star team out of Middlesex-Hartford. It looks poised to do it all all over again.

At least, that’s what 24 state voters think.

Staples, your hands-down FCIAC favorite and last year’s Class LL runner-up, chimes in at No. 2. The Wreckers got two first-place votes.

Hand, the defending Class L champ, is No. 3. The Tigers also got two first-place votes.

And Ansonia, last year’s NVL and Class M champions who are back in Class S this season, were ranked No. 4.

Defending Class S champion and NVL runner-up Holy Cross does not appear in the Top 10. The Crusaders earned enough votes for an 18th-place rank.

The remainder of the poll is a crapshoot, basically. Berlin, Ledyard and Windsor received a fair amount of preseason chatter, so into the poll they go.

2012 Preseason High School Football Media Poll

Other teams receiving votes: Masuk (11-1), 210; West Haven (7-3), 200; Southington (6-4), 151; Darien (8-2), 143; North Branford (9-2), 133; Newtown (9-3), 117; Glastonbury (8-3), 99; Holy Cross (12-2), 92; Shelton (8-2), 82; Cromwell (10-3) and New London (9-2), 55; North Haven (9-2), 45; Farmington (9-1), 36; Norwich Free Academy (7-3), 33; Bunnell (8-2), 29; St. Joseph (4-6), 27; Hall (9-2), 25; Notre Dame-West Haven (8-3) and Ridgefield (8-3), 20; Brookfield (5-5) and Torrington (7-3), 18; Norwalk (9-2) and Trumbull (2-7), 11; Wolcott (8-4), 10; Cheshire (5-5), 9; New Britain (6-4), 8; Hyde (4-6), Middletown (6-4), Montville (6-4), Pomperaug (8-2) and Woodland (6-4), 7.

Your 2012 Connecticut media voting roll: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, Sporting News CT; Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press; Chris Brodeur, Danbury News-Times; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, MSG Varsity; Tom Evans, Norwalk Hour; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, Patch/West Hartford News; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shore Line Newspapers; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Mike Wollschlager, New Haven Register; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.

Questions? Comments? Fire away.

We’ll be posing our first batch of previews tonight.