Friday Game Night

Despite a 2-8 record in 2017, the Raiders were among the top 10 leaders in offense in Class 6A behind dynamic playmaker AJ Curry. However, they also were one of the hard-luck teams in the area dropping six games by just 18 points...

The Red Elephants are under new management for the first time since 2001. Gone is Bruce Miller, who led them to playoff berths in all 16 years with eight region titles and one state championship, the first for the program in its storied history. In is Heath Webb...

The Falcons under new coach Ben Hall snapped a three-year playoff drought and advanced to the second round of the Class 5A playoffs in 2017. But with the creation of Cherokee Bluff, Flowery Branch has dropped down to Class 4A and into a rugged Region 7-4A that houses the defending state champion (Marist) and state runner-up (Blessed Trinity)...

In 2017 Scott Wilkins became the third coach in three seasons for the Eagles. Their 1-win campaign also marked the fifth time in six years that they have won one or fewer games. But Wilkins is now in his second season and said time and consistency will start to show dividends...

East Hall had the most prolific passing attack in the state, all classifications, behind now-graduated quarterback Austin Parker in 2017. However, off-season changes galore have knocked the Vikings almost back to square one...

The Tigers, like several other programs around the area, will begin a new journey without a dynamic playmaker at the helm. QB Coey Watson graduated after one of the best four-year stretches in program history...

The Tigers were stunned in the second round of the playoffs in 2017 after three straight seasons of making the quarterfinals or better in Class A Public. Region 8-A figures to be just as tough in 2018 and will once again offer Commerce plenty of challenges and competition as the Tigers look to make a 22nd consecutive playoff appearance...

Georgia High School Association Executive Director Robin Hines at the July updated the GHSA Executive Committee at the July 10 Board of Trustees meeting that all the state championship football games scheduled at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2018 will be held at the stadium...

The War Eagles missed out on the playoffs in a very competitive Region 7-4A in 2017. It won't get any easier as Flowery Branch moves down and Denmark, a new school in Forsyth County, moves into the region...

Tommy Jones is no stranger to success having guided both Lumpkin County and Dacula to winning seasons and the playoffs. So when he stepped down as coach of the Falcons to take over the newly-created Cherokee Bluff program, he said the allure of building something from the ground up was one of the motivating factors...