Rex Nelson: Arkansas High School Football After Week 1

Editor’s Note: As we prepare to ramp up for another exciting football season in Arkansas, Rex Nelson shares his Southern Fried Blog Arkansas High School Football Rankings. We start this week with Rex’s preseason rankings of teams throughout the state.

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I love the first week of the high school football season.

There are games on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights. Some high school teams get to open the season in college stadiums. There are doubleheaders.

Perhaps the most impressive performance in Week 1 belonged to Springdale Har-Ber, which destroyed Fort Smith Southside by a final score of 47-0 and moved up a couple of spots in the overall rankings.

At War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, more than 30,000 people turned out to see Bryant continue to dominate the series known as the Salt Bowl.

Pulaski Academy started as it usually does, by beating a team from another state.

The best game of the week might have been Cabot 28, Pine Bluff 27. Both teams are ranked.

With one week of the season in the books, let’s get to the rankings:

Overall

1. Fayetteville

2. Greenwood

3. Pulaski Academy

4. Cabot

5. Springdale Har-Ber

6. North Little Rock

7. Jonesboro

8. Bentonville

9. Bryant

10. Pine Bluff

To see each Arkansas high school football classification’s rankings, click here.

Photo courtesy of Nate Olson