PA Football News Archives
September 2023
2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 4
September 19, 2023 | Billy Splain
Oh 5A how you roll us! That class had the most changes. Who wants it more? As for the rest, pretty stable. This will all change after the weekend. MANY top ten matchups! Stay tuned! Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 3-1 1 2 PCC (7) 4-0 2 3 North […]
2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 3
September 12, 2023 | Billy Splain
Movement everywhere! As we dig into the season, it’s ineveitable that ranked teams play each other. This past week saw several matchups of ranked teams. Manheim Twp made a huge noise, Penn Hills scored some points with our rankings staff. Then you have the unusual. Selinsgrove and Jersey Shore collided and the game ended in […]
District 1 Power Rankings- Week 1 & 2
September 6, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo
This article was written by Michael Pietrangelo & Marcus Sic 1. Coatesville- Coach Matt Ortega’s Red Raiders are off to a fast 2-0 start defeating Pennsbury and Academy Park by a combined score of 77-7. The Red Raiders have won outright or shared 7 consecutive ChesMont titles, with Ricky Ortega as QB for the first […]
2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 2
September 5, 2023 | Billy Splain
“Steady as she goes” was not a saying used often this week. The rankings took several hits this week, namely State College dropping a close one to Downingtown East in 6A. 5A saw three at the lower end drop out. 4A had one change. 3A saw several changes as did both 2A and 1A. Enough […]
2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 1
August 29, 2023 | Billy Splain
Well, week zero is in the books! Our group of ranking experts met Sunday night and the report is in: not too many changes. There are a few, but for the most part we didn’t punish those who lost to powerhouse out of state teams (SJP, Cathedral Prep, McDowell, Pine-Richland and Neuman Gorretti). We did […]
2023 Preseason Pennsylvania Football News Rankings
August 15, 2023 | Billy Splain
The 2023 season is upon us! Our rankings team met twice and hammered out who our experts believe will come out on top! You’ll see familiar faces at the top of each class, they’re all defending champions. Our team learned a lesson with Southern Columbia last year, so this year we decided to keep them […]
The Final Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings for 2022: Some surprises, some not.
December 14, 2022 | Billy Splain
Every week during the regular season, a bunch of “huddle heads”, as the late Edsel Walker would call them, got together on a zoom to talk about who the best teams are each week. They hollared, screamed, argued and somehow, at the end of the meeting, came to agreement to what they saw on the […]
Pennsylvania high school football rankings ending nearly as they began
December 6, 2022 | Billy Splain
Every Sunday eve our expert staff meets to discuss the weekends results and then they adjust the rankings accordingly. Well, it’s hard to believe we are entering the last week of the season. Seems like yesterday we released our preseason rankings. Speaking of which, our staff released their title game week rankings and low […]
Pennsylvania Football Rankings, Week 14…Top four locked in
November 28, 2022 | Billy Splain
Every Sunday eve our expert staff meets to discuss the weekends results and then they adjust the rankings accordingly. Well, Quarterfinal weekend is over and no real surprises. In 6A the top four teams made it through the weekend with the win. 5A had a couple changes with Cathedral Prep and Exeter Twp dropping while […]
The 2022 Pennsylvania Football News Rankings took a few hits at the bottom, but the tops stayed mostly in tact after week 12
November 14, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. We said there’d be changes this week, and there were. But for the most part the top 7 in each class remained the same. Rewarded were a couple 6A teams that have had great seasons. Some teams dropped right out […]
The 2022 Pennsylvania Football News Rankings remained steady in week 11
November 8, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Very few changes except for 6A where Downingtown East thumped Coatesville, Nazareth went down as well as Pennsbury. There’s a familiar name in the 2A HM section with the return of one of their star running backs, SCA. They won’t […]
Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings: The final 2022 regular season edition
November 1, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Sounding like a broken record but, not many changes heading into the playoffs. In 6A there were no changes in the top ten. Class 5A saw on change, Roman got thumped and dropped to HM. For the 4A rankings, there […]
The 2022 Pennsylvania Football News Rankings remained steady in week 9
October 25, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. It’s not going to last long, we’re getting to the meat of the 2022 season, playoff time! This week the panel was pretty darned close again! In 6A the only drop from the top 10 was Downingtown East who lost […]
The 2022 Pennsylvania Football Rankings are taking shape for the playoffs
October 18, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Well, the team nailed it again. The only real changes came among ranked teams that played each other. Some of those losses made room for a couple new teams. Nazareth bumped Emmaus down a bit with their win, Northampton taks […]
REPOST: The Pennsylvania high school football rankings team did it again! Week 7, 2022 sees little change
October 13, 2022 | Billy Splain
This is a repost due to GoDaddy messing up our site. The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Not much to report this week as most of our ranked teams won. The only exceptions for the most part were ranked teams that played each other such as […]
The 2022 Pennsylvania Football Rankings Hold steady this week except in 6A
October 4, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. This will be short, much like our rankings meeting was. Not many changes occurred over the weekend, except in the class that took up most of our 30 minute meeting: Class 6A. The top 5 remained, however, at the bottom […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 4: 5A jigsaw puzzle
September 27, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. This week was once again a bit quiet at the top with exception to 5A which continues to be puzzling. In 6A we saw very little movement. CV drops a couple after a close game with #7 Harrisburg and Central […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 3: A little quiet this week
September 20, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Contrary to what some might say, our staff of, as the late Eddie Walker would say, “Helmet Heads” knows football and it’s starting to show up in the rankings. This weeks meeting wasn’t long like usual. In 6A, the Vikings […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 2: movers and shakers
September 13, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Sor for the first time this season we’ll dig into what went into the rankings this week. Though some of the top teams lost this past weekend, we don’t tend to punish teams for losing to strong, out of state […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 1!
September 6, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. We took a long, hard look at this past weeks games here’s what we came up with! rk 6A Rec Pvs 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 1-1 1 2 Harrisburg (3) 1-0 2 3 Pittsburgh Central Cath (7) 1-1 3 […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 0!
August 30, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. We took a long, hard look at this past weeks games here’s what we came up with! rk 6A Rec Pvs 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 0-1 1 2 Harrisburg (3) 0-0 2 3 Pittsburgh Central Cath (7) 0-1 3 […]
Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Pre-Season Rankings
August 23, 2022 | Billy Splain
The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. We took a long, hard look at this years line ups and here’s what we came up with! rk 6A Rec Pvs 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 11-3 2 2 Harrisburg (3) 12-2 10 3 Pittsburgh Central Cath (7) 9-3 […]
PFN Final 2021 Rankings are IN! The Final edition for 2021! Where’d everyone land?
December 14, 2021 | Billy Splain
The 2021 PAFootballNews.com final rankings are in! Rankings are compiled and reviewed by a panel of 20 PFN reporters from around the state. Our staff took in several factors for the final rankings. We looked at the body of work for the season, quality of wins AND quality of losses, quality of playoff brackets, quality […]
PFN Rankings are IN! Week 15, Dec 6, 2021! Only one more thing to do, settle numbers 1 and 2
December 6, 2021 | Billy Splain
The 2021 PAFootballNews.com rankings for week 13 are in! Rankings are compiled and reviewed by a panel of 20 PFN reporters from around the state. Here we are! It’s Title game week and the only thing left to do here is settle number 1 and 2! rk 13-1 Rec Pvs 1 Mount Lebanon (7) 14-0 […]
PFN Rankings are IN! Week 14, Nov 29, 2021! We’re getting gritty!
November 29, 2021 | Billy Splain
The 2021 PAFootballNews.com rankings for week 13 are in! Rankings are compiled and reviewed by a panel of 20 PFN reporters from around the state. Just two more sets to go! rk 6A Rec Pvs 1 Garnet Valley (1) 14-0 1 2 Mount Lebanon (7) 13-0 2 3 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 10-2 3 4 […]
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