The official Wild Card Points standings following the completion of football’s Week 7 games in the 2014 season.
Wild Card points are used in determining playoff fields for 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A and 6-man. A total of 32 teams make up the 5A field, while 16 qualify in 4A-2A, and eight in 6-man.
Fountain-Fort Carson is ranked No. 10 in 5A this week. (Dennis Pleuss)
Buoyed by its four-overtime win against Doherty on Friday night, Fountain-Fort Carson cracked CHSAANow.com’s Class 5A football rankings on Monday.
The Trojans, now 6-1, entered the poll at No. 10. They have won their last five games.
Elsewhere in 5A, Valor Christian stayed atop the ranking after receiving ten of the 16 first-place votes. Grandview, which got four first-place votes after its big win against Cherry Creek, returned to the No. 2 spot this week.
Pomona is third, and Ralston Valley is fourth. Those two cross-town rivals play one another on Friday night.
Fairview rounds out 5A’s top five, Regis Jesuit is sixth, Mountain Vista moved up to No. 7 and Rock Mountain is No. 8. Cherry Creek fell three places to No. 9.
The other No. 1 teams also remained put, including Pine Creek (4A), Discovery Canyon (3A), Brush (2A), Paonia (1A), Dayspring Christian (8-man) and Arickaree/Woodlin (6-man).
Newcomers (or returners to the rankings) this week include Dakota Ridge (No. 9 in 4A); Berthoud (No. 9, 3A); Fort Morgan (No. 10, 3A); Sterling (No. 9, 2A); and Cheyenne Wells (No. 10, 6-man).
The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday.
Voted upon by coaches and select media members around the state. These rankings have no bearing on postseason seeding, except in 5A where they are used as part of the seeding criteria.
Voted upon by coaches and select media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing rcasey@chsaa.org. These rankings have no bearing on postseason seeding.
Regis Jesuit volleyball returned to the 5A poll this week. (Ray Chen/ArrayPhoto.com)
Regis Jesuit has returned to this week’s CHSAANow.com Class 5A volleyball rankings.
The Raiders went 3-0 last week and are now 11-6 this season. They returned to the poll at No. 10. Regis Jesuit was last ranked on Sept. 1.
Elsewhere in 5A, Grandview moved from No. 8 to No. 5.
Each of the five No. 1 teams stayed the same this week. Those are Rampart (5A), Lewis-Palmer (4A), Eaton (3A), Resurrection Christian (2A) and Fleming (1A).
The 4A poll added Air Academy (No. 10), 3A added Faith Christian (No. 10), Cedaredge (No. 10) joined 2A and Norwood (also No. 10) was new to 1A.
The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday.
Voted upon by coaches and media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing rcasey@chsaa.org. These rankings have no bearing on postseason seeding.
Gymnastics’ regionals begin next week. Teams were then placed into one of three regionals, held at Lakewood, Mountain Range and Overland.
Each regional is Oct. 25.
The following criteria was used:
Average the top three best team scores for each team as reported during the regular season to CHSAANow.com
The top scores were placed in regions in a “serpentine” pattern into three regionals by classification (5A: Team #s: 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19 = Region 1; Team #s: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20 = Region 2; 5A #s: 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21 = Region 3; 4A: Team #s: 1, 6, 7, 12, 13 = Region 1; Team #s: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 = Region 2; Team #s: 3, 4, 9, 10 = Region 3)
Once the teams have been determined by classification for each region, the committee then ranked them by average team score to begin the drawings for competition rotations; with the top four teams garnering rotations 9-12;
Region 1 is at Lakewood High School, Region 2 at Mountain Range and Region 3 will be held at Overland. All regionals begin at noon on Saturday October 25.
The team rankings used in determining the regionals are below.
The rotation schedule for each regional:
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