We're days away from the opening night of the high school football season and we're releasing our predictions for the upcoming season.
Sports reporter Wyatt Wheeler along with three college reporters working with the News-Leader for the upcoming fall picked where they thought teams would finish in their conference races — along with a few players to watch and a team they think will surprise.
The rankings are below. In parenthesis are how many first-place votes a team received followed by the number of points from their placement in the standings — in a seven-team conference, a first-place vote is seven points while a second-place is six and so on.