CFC50 Rankings Week 5: Drama at the top as three top 10 programs tumble

You want chaos? You want drama? You want madness?

Well you’ve come to the right place because the CFC50 High School Rankings have gone through a transformation after a wild week of action across the country.

Three top ten teams have tumbled down the rankings including St. Thomas More out of Hamilton, who lost their first regular season game in six years. At this point you’re probably expecting us to announce it was Newman who finally found a way past their rivals, but instead it was their Stoney Creek neighbours at Bishop Ryan who pulled off the upset of the week. It took overtime to decide this barnburner with the Celtics hitting a last minute field goal in regulation, and at that point there would be no stopping the oncoming train as Bishop Ryan prevailed 34-33. The shocking result sets up a juicy matchup this week between the Stoney Creek rivals with Newman putting their 3-0 record on the line at Bishop Ryan on Friday afternoon. Could it finally be the year of the Cardinal? Or can the Celtics make it a three horse race for the coveted Hamilton Catholic title? Stay tuned because things just got very interesting in Steeltown.

Down the highway in London we had another eye-popping result with Catholic Central dropping their first regular season contest to St. Thomas Aquinas by a score of 19-14. The Flames have always been contenders in the tough London District conference, and they’ve now staked their claim as the best team in the region. They’ll likely have to deal with Laurier eventually, who are looking like the class of the TVDSB Central conference, but you truly never know who’s going to rise to the top in London each season.

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Our final top ten program to fall this week was G.W. Graham, who took BC by storm last season winning their first provincial title, but Vancouver College were too much to handle taking home a massive 28-23 victory to kickoff their regular season campaign. The Irish have looked dominant throughout the preseason, and will be hungry to flip the script from last year where they looked like the favourites as well, but then ended up collapsing in the playoffs against underdogs Centennial.

The top ten wasn’t the only place for upsets with the Halton public region shaking up the hierarchy as Garth Webb defeated the defending league champions Oakville Trafalgar by a score of 21-20, while Nelson weren’t able to find a way past Iroquois Ridge falling 26-23. You really can’t predict much from these two matchups with each game coming down to the wire, which means we should have an exciting race to the finish line with no clear favourite emerging out of the gates. On the other side of the bracket it’s been status quo in the Halton Catholic region with Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi taking care of business, which is setting up a must-see showdown between the two programs on October 19th. We can’t wait for the GHAC playdowns this year between the Hamilton Catholic and Halton regions. Your guess is as good as ours when it comes to predicting the final four programs.

Another province writing a dramatic script this season is Quebec, where Armand-Corbeil threw a wrench into the storyline defeating Saint-Jean-Eudes by a score of 24-17 to improve their record to 3-2. After cruising through their first four games, Seminaire-Saint-Francois finally found some resistance against College Notre-Dame, but in the end they still found a way to get the job done with a 23-14 victory over the defending champs. Our other top ten program Charles-Lemoyne also found themselves in a hard-fought contest against Academie Saint-Louis, but they were able to keep their undefeated record in tact triumphing 29-14. If you can follow the bouncing ball, Saint-Jean-Eudes have lost to Armand-Corbeil, who lost to College Notre-Dame, who lost to Academie Saint-Louis, who lost to Saint-Jean-Eudes … did you catch all of that? We didn’t even mention Cure-Antoine-Labelle, who currently sit tied in third place with a 3-2 record. It’s razor thin margins between 3rd-6th place in Juvenile DI, and we wouldn’t put it past any of them pulling off an upset over one of our top ten programs down the road. Meanwhile, we’ve got a giant circle around October 15th on the calendar when Seminaire Saint-Francois and Charles Lemoyne finally meet between the lines.

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We were highly anticipating the matchup between Miller and Riffel in Regina, but the Marauders weren’t going to get caught up in any drama with an easy 42-9 win over the Royals. They’ve proven they are worthy of the second place ranking on the national list, and at this point it’s looking like the top program out of Saskatoon will have the best chance at ending their reign as the team to beat in Saskatchewan. Will it be Holy Cross or St. Joseph’s? We will have a much better idea next week with the two powerhouse programs ready to faceoff on Friday night.

The rest of our ranked programs found little issues bypassing the competition this week, and we’d like to make a special mention to W.F. Herman out of Windsor, who are back in the thick of things with their victory over L’Essor after having their season cancelled last year. The high school football landscape is a better place when the Windsor region is competing.

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#	Last Week	School/Team Mascot	City	Prov.	Conf. Rec.	Non-Conf. Rec	Week 5
1	1	Huron Heights Warriors	Newmarket	ON	0-0	4-0	Forfeit vs. St. Mary’s
2	2	Miller Marauders	Regina	SK	4-0	0-0	W 42-9 vs. Riffel
3	4	Harry Ainlay Titans	Edmonton	AB	3-0	2-0	W 43-0 vs. Austin O’Brien
4	6	Sém. St-François Blizzard	Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaure	QC	5-0	0-0	W 23-14 vs. College Notre-Dame
5	8	Salisbury Sabres	Sherwood Park	AB	3-0	1-0	BYE
6	9	Charles-Lemoyne Dynamique	Sainte-Catherine	QC	5-0	0-0	W 29-14 vs. Academie Saint-Louis
7	13	Vancouver College Fighting Irish	Vancouver	BC	1-0	3-0	W 28-23 vs. G.W. Graham
8	10	St. Paul’s Crusaders	Winnipeg	MB	4-0	0-0	W 44-6 vs. Oak Park
9	11	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Welland	ON	1-0	1-1	W 43-3 vs. Denis Morris
10	12	Korah Colts	Sault Ste Marie	ON	3-0	0-1	W 34-14 vs. Superior Heights
11	5	G.W. Graham Grizzlies	Chilliwack	BC	0-1	4-0	L 28-23 vs. Vancouver College
12	14	Notre Dame Pride	Calgary	AB	2-0	1-1	W 27-15 vs. Henry Wise Wood
13	15	St. Roch Ravens	Brampton	ON	2-0	1-0	W 31-0 vs. David Suzuki
14	16	St. Francis Browns	Calgary	AB	2-0	0-1	W 21-3 vs. All Saints
15	17	Holy Cross Crusaders	Saskatoon	SK	3-0	0-1	W 43-0 vs. Tommy Douglas
16	18	Notre Dame Jugglers	Burnaby	BC	1-0	3-0	W 42-14 vs. Centennial
17	19	Raymond Comets	Raymond	AB	0-0	3-1- 1	W 58-0 vs. Carston
18	20	Holy Trinity Titans	Oakville	ON	3-0	0-0	W 30-0 vs. Notre Dame
19	21	Laurier Rams	London	ON	2-0	0-0	W 40-0 vs. Medway
20	UR	St. Thomas Aquinas Flames	London	ON	1-0	0-0	W 19-14 vs. Catholic Central
21	23	Dakota Collegiate Lancers	Winnipeg	MB	3-1	0-0	W 24-0 vs. Vincent Massey
22	24	Ernest Manning Griffins	Calgary	AB	1-0	2-0-1	BYE
23	26	St Joseph Guardians	Saskatoon	SK	3-1	0-1	W 47-10 vs. Prince Albert Carlton
24	32	Mount Douglas Rams	Victoria	BC	1-0	2-1	W 21-19 vs. Lord Tweedsmuir
25	33	Terry Fox Ravens	Port Coquitlam	BC	1-0	2-1	W 27-3 vs. Kelowna
26	29	Jacob Hespeler Hawks	Cambridge	ON	2-0	0-0	W 35-0 vs. Glenview Park
27	30	St. John Henry Newman Cardinals	Stoney Creek	ON	2-0	0-0	W 30-6 vs. Bishop Tonnos
28	36	Corpus Christi Longhorns	Burlington	ON	3-0	0-0	W 46-13 vs. Assumption
29	38	St. Andrew’s College Saints	Aurora	ON	2-0	1-1	W 38-0 vs. Upper Canada College
30	UR	W. F. Herman Green Griffins	Windsor	ON	1-0	0-0	W 38-0 vs. L’Essor
31	7	Catholic Central Crusaders	London	ON	0-1	2-0	L 19-14 vs. St. Thomas Aquinas
32	27	Auburn Drive Eagles	Westphal	NS	3-0	0-0	W 33-14 vs. Parkview
33	28	Saint John Greyhounds	Saint John	NB	4-0	0-0	W 14-3 vs. Riverview
34	31	Frontenac Falcons	Kingston	ON	2-0	0-0	W 28-9 vs. LaSalle
35	34	St. Mark Lions	Ottawa	ON	2-0	0-0	W 35-0 vs. North Grenville
36	35	St. James Lions	Guelph	ON	1-0	0-0	W 38-3 vs. Guelph Collegiate VI
37	37	Westmount Wildcats	Hamilton	ON	1-0	0-0	BYE
38	44	A. N. Myer Marauders	Niagara Falls	ON	2-0	0-0	W 48-0 vs. Eden
39	43	St. Joan of Arc Knights	Barrie	ON	2-0	0-0	W 47-6 vs. Patrick Fogarty
40	22	Riffel Royals	Regina	SK	3-1	0-0	L 42-9 vs. Miller
41	41	L.C.I. Rams	Lethbridge	AB	2-0	2-1	W 35-0 vs. Catholic Central
42	39	Academie Saint-Louis Arsenal	Quebec	QC	3-2	0-0	L 29-14 vs. Charles-Lemoyne
43	UR	Armand-Corbeil Scorpions	Terrebonne	QC	3-2	0-0	W 24-17 vs. Saint-Jean-Eudes
44	25	Saint-Jean-Eudes Condors	Québec	QC	2-3	0-0	L 24-17 vs. Armand-Corbeil
45	40	College Notre-Dame Cactus	Montreal	QC	2-3	0-0	L 23-14 vs. Seminaire Saint-Francois
46	UR	Bishop Ryan Celtics	Hamilton	ON	2-1	0-0	W 34-33 vs. St. Thomas More
47	3	St. Thomas More Knights	Hamilton	ON	1-1	0-1	L 34-33 vs. Bishop Ryan
48	UR	Iroquois Ridge Huskies	Oakville	ON	2-0	0-0	W 26-23 vs. Nelson
49	46	London South Lions	London	ON	1-1	1-0	W 15-9 vs. A.B. Lucas
50	50	St. Thomas More Knights	Burnaby	BC	1-0	1-2	W 38-14 vs. Mt. Boucherie