To look ahead to the 2011 season, I’ve decided we’ll spend each morning this week ranking the best games of the upcoming Section 1 football season. It started Monday morning with a look at Week 1, and followed Tuesday with a look at Week 2.
We’ll focus on one week per day. Week 3 will be featured today. If you need to take a peek at each’s team’s schedule, you can find it here. For your reference, the first game is Week 1, the second is Week 2 and so on.
Here’s a look at my best in Week 1. And, here’s a look at the best in Week 2.
Now, below is a look at the highlights from Week 3. Lots of solid matchups, but kind of slim pickings at the top after the first game.
I hope you’ll evaluate the schedule along with me, so please feel free to add your own opinion about what I’m right, why I’m wrong or why you would have ranked them differently.
The best from Week 3 —
1. New Rochelle at Carmel: A potential championship game preview? Mmm, not so fast. But certainly Carmel will enter 2011 with a chance to challenge New Rochelle and others for Section 1 supremacy. The Rams caught New Ro early in the season three years ago. Could history repeat itself?
2. Tuckahoe at Bronxville: Trust me. There will be few regular-season games this fall that will attract more statewide attention then this one. Why? Because it is exceedingly rare for two state champions to meet. It is even rarer when they are located just a warm-up jog from one another inside the same town proper. Yes, many of the stars are gone, but that won’t sap this matchup of all its intrigue.
3. Nyack at Horace Greeley: This is probably a more intriguing matchup than No. 2, but it doesn’t pit two state champs against one another. It also doesn’t count toward the playoffs, squeezing some juice out of a game between two of Class A’s finest.
4. Mahopac at Arlington: I don’t know who will be on the field because both teams graduated a slew of seniors and have a lot to replace. But this is a rematch of one of 2010’s best regular season games, one won on a TD pass with under two minutes to play and a fake extra point. That Mahopac win was one of many dramatic moments during a remarkable season. Can these old AA-North foes recapture some of that fourth quarter magic when they reconvene?
5. Rye at Ossining: Don’t forget: Rye met Ossining in its first game in Class A two years ago, a game the Garnets won to announce their arrival. Ossining won’t forget that, and will hope its improved team is good enough by Week 3 to exact some revenge.
Honorable mention
White Plains at Clarkstown North: Two Class AA playoff teams from 2010. ‘Nuff said.
Poughkeepsie at Eastchester The grind continues for these teams in Class A.
Croton-Harmon at Our Lady of Lourdes: Class B final preview? Expect Lourdes coach Brian Walsh to build off last year’s success. He could prove that here.
Dobbs Ferry at Hastings: One of the section’s top small-school rivalries, but Hastings will have been hurt by graduation.
17 Comments
Josh I’m sorry for calling Pelham Bias a coward. He has the right to say what he wants its the first amendment. I also have the right to say anything I want that is not threatening.
week 4:
stepinac vs. st. anthonys
Again, other than the Conway Boys, who does Bronxville have coming back? Didn’t they graduate most of their starters from last year? Just wondering.
i dont get why you have north as top games to watch for the second week they lost almost there whole starting roster have a new quarterback and almost a whole new line
CARMEL VS NEW ROCHELLE
IF NEW RO CAN MOVE THE BALL WITH A BALANCE ATTACK THIS IS A BLOW OUT!! I THINK NEW RO WILL DEFEND THE PASS THEY WILL NOT GET CAUGHT SLEEPING!!!!
Beware Bias will be complaining that Ossining vs Rye doesn’t belong on the list, but Pelham at Hen Hud will deserve it. Watch.
sorry brohemian, i dont think pelham and hen hud should be on the list. Im more upset that this is pelhams rivary game because they never play eachother in anything and there on opposite sides of westchester. Brohemian, theres a rumor that you play on pelhams team because before you said that your cuz goes to pmhs and theres no way you would still know some of the exact details.
Section1guy, i dont find you threatening doing worry
I know kids at Pelham too. My cousin is on your team. Bias your compltely right about there rivalry game, I would of liked to see a Pelham vs Eastchester since these teams play eachother in Everything.! I wouldnt think of Pelham and Hen Hud being thebrivalry game in your eyes. I would think it would be Byram, sinc you guys play them in a lot too. Overall the scheduling does not factor in rivals which sucks. I agree with you on that. Good point.
brohemian, what positon does your cousin play? Yea i would have liked to play eastchester. Thxs for the positively about my post, see sometimes im completely fair and make good points.
To Josh Thomson,
I got a report you are denying someone 1st amendment right. I believe the blogger is Section1Guy. Section1Guy has the right to call A lil Pelham Bias a “Coward” and A Lil Pelham Bias has the right to defend and talk about how good Pelham going to be. Just think about Josh.
Infowarrior… Sorry, you’re wrong. You cannot come on here and call people names. If you don’t want to take my word for it, please read our terms of service.
Josh great job cleaning up the negative comments. If someone wants to debate someone, no need for insults. Insults just mean you have nothing better to say. And that applies to everything not just football!!
Some early predictions:
New Ro 24, Carmel 14 – I could see this being a game late into the 3rd and then New Ro scores a final TD. Carmle cant answer.
Bronxville 21, Tuckahoe 7 – Class C too much for Class D! Seriously, BVille at least you hear of guys coming back. Not sure who Tuckahoe has coming back.
Greeley 21, Nyack 14 – Dont see more scoring than this. There really has not been any word of who Nyack has returning so that is enough cause for concern to think this one will go Greeley’s way.
Arlington 21, Maho 17 – I really think Arlington can be the dark horse based on the size of enrollment, recent continued success, the # of yrs Coach has been there. This could be the year they shock some teams and get back to the semi-finals at the least. Maho graduated too much and I think makes this game close out of sure will.
Rye 28, Ossining 14. Oss QB getting some hype but he will need to prove it before I put an Ossining team over Coach Garr and Rye.
I think the top 5 is good order though if I was a Class C fan I see the argument for that game to be #1. Otherwise a lot of quality games, but I think week 3 is missing a MUST SEE if you are a Class AA fan!
Josh I want to see your terms bc your bosses are denying free speech. You can’t threaten someone but you can call them a name. The the constitutional law
Legally Josh Thomson, LoHud, and whomever came up with the ToS are allowed to “deny free speech”. If you knew the words of the 1st Amendment it is that Congress cannot limit/takeaway freedom of speech. Josh Thomson, LoHud, nor whomever came up with the ToS is not Congress.
If you looked at Bronxville last year, their 2nd stringers were absolutely pummeling other team’s starters. And they do have guys coming back with the Conway boys. Sean Callahan who was perhaps the most underrated lineman for Bronxville last year might be the top of the class in 2011. Luke Marrone and Matt Tormey who will be juniors are returning starters at linebacker and tight end. Sean Triandis another big lineman who started a number of games and pushed guys around is back. Bronxville will in fact be back in 2011 for another Section Championship, and perhaps a state run.