2016 Week 9 Mississippi AP Prep Football Polls – October 11, 2016

(WCBI/AP) — Here are Mississippi’s top high school football teams in each class as selected by a panel of Associated Press state sports writers.

Overall
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Clinton (13) (7-0) 148 1
2. Tupelo (2) (7-0) 133 T2
3. Picayune (7-0) 105 4
4. Brandon (6-2) 94 5
5. West Point (7-1) 82 6
6. St. Stanislaus (6-1) 58 7
7. Warren Central (6-1) 49 T2
8. Northwest Rankin (6-2) 43 9
9. Meridian (6-2) 34 8
10. Starkville (5-2) 21 NR
Others receiving votes: Laurel 14, Jackson Prep 13, South Jones 6, Clarksdale 6, Presbyterian Christian 5, Simmons 4, Prentiss Christian 4, West Lauderdale 3, Raleigh 2, Hattiesburg 1.

Class 6A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Clinton (13) (7-0) 148 1
2. Tupelo (2) (7-0) 137 T2
3. Brandon (6-2) 109 4
4. Warren Central (6-1) 98 T2
5. Northwest Rankin (6-2) 80 5
Others receiving votes: Starkville 16, Meridian 12.

Class 5A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Picayune (7) (7-0) 142 1
2. West Point (6) (6-1) 138 2
3. Laurel (6-1) 111 3
4. Clarksdale (1) (6-2) 90 5
5. Hattiesburg (5-3) 60 4
Others receiving votes: Grenada 18, South Jones (1) 16, Lake Cormorant 7, Vicksburg 6, Pascagoula 6, Oxford 6.

Class 4A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. St. Stanislaus (14) (6-1) 146 1
2. Houston (1) (7-1) 117 4
T3. Pontotoc (7-1) 84 2
T3. West Lauderdale (8-0) 84 5
5. Amory (5-2) 49 NR
Others receiving votes: Lafayette 42, Poplarville 38, Florence 13, Senatobia 12, Noxubee County 8, McComb 7.

Class 3A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Hazlehurst (8) (6-2) 142 1
2. Raleigh (4) (8-0) 127 3
3. Kemper County (2) (7-1) 117 2
4. Charleston (7-2) 96 4
5. Tylertown (1) (7-0) 80 5
Others receiving votes: Kossuth 24, Collins 8, East Side 6.

Class 2A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Bassfield (12) (6-2) 144 1
2. Calhoun City (3) (7-1) 134 2
3. Union (7-1) 107 4
4. Bay Springs (6-2) 98 3
5. Puckett (7-1) 74 5
Others receiving votes: West Tallahatchie 17, Bruce 8, East Webster 6, Amite County 6, East Union 6.

Class 1A
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Simmons (15) (7-0) 150 1
2. Resurrection Catholic (5-1) 132 2
3. Nanih Waiya (7-1) 120 3
4. Smithville (6-1) 107 4
5. Lumberton (5-2) 85 5
Others receiving votes: Vardaman 6.

Class Private Schools
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Jackson Prep (14) (8-0) 148 1
2. Presbyterian Christian (1) (8-0) 135 2
3. Madison-Ridgeland Aca. (6-3) 100 3
4. Indianola Aca. (8-0) 87 5
5. Lamar School (6-3) 42 4
Others receiving votes: Jackson Aca. 40, Copiah Aca. 21, Prentiss Christian 9, Washington School 6, Adams Christian 6, Canton Aca. 6.

All Associated Press members in Mississippi are eligible to participate in the high school football poll. Those who voted for this week’s poll are: The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus; The Chronicle, Laurel; Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland; Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville; The Sun-Herald, Biloxi-Gulfport; The Hattiesburg Post , Hattiesburg; The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson; Enterprise-Journal, Mc Comb; The Oxford Eagle, Oxford; Mississippi Press-Register, Pascagoula; Starkville Daily News, Starkville; Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo; The Vicksburg Post, Vicksburg; WCBI-TV, Columbus; WTVA-TV, Tupelo.