USA Today Florida Network High School Football Week 9 poll: Norland No. 1 in Class 2M - Palm Beach Post

To the winner go the spoils.

Norland rallied from a 20-point halftime deficit to beat Central 29-26 in overtime on Friday and now stand alone atop the Class 2M rankings on the USA Today Florida Network High School Football poll.

Norland started the year at No. 2 and was tied with Central at No. 1 for one week before dropping back to No. 2. The Vikings received 10 of 11 possible first-place votes with American Heritage (Plantation) receiving the other vote. Central falls to No. 3 in the poll.

Lake Mary increased its hold on the top spot in Class 4M after its 36-6 win against Evans. The Rams, which narrowly edged Columbus for No. 1 last week, picked up nine first-place votes.

St. Thomas Aquinas (Class 3M), Chaminade-Madonna (1M), Mainland (3S), Cocoa (2S) and Hawthorne (1R) were unanimous first-place selections in their respective classes.

Class 4M

1. Lake Mary 7-0 (8 first-place votes)

2. Columbus (Miami) 7-1 (3 first-place votes)

3. Seminole (Sanford) 6-2

4. Palmetto (Miami) 6-1

5. Palm Beach Central (Wellington) 7-0

6. Winter Park 6-0

7. Monarch (Coconut Creek) 6-1

8. Mandarin (Jacksonville) 6-2

9. Apopka 5-2

10. Western (Davie) 4-3

ARV: Sumner (Riverview), Olympia (Orlando), South Dade (Homestead), West Orange (Winter Garden), Plant (Tampa

Class 3M

1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) 7-1 (11 first-place votes)

2. Edgewater (Orlando) 8-0

3. Homestead 5-1

4. Coconut Creek 6-2

5.  Tampa Bay Tech 8-0

6. Armwood (Seffner) 6-1

7. Jones (Orlando) 4-3

8. Atlantic (Delray Beach) 6-1

9. Jesuit (Tampa) 5-2

10. Blanche Ely (Pompano Beach) 6-1

ARV: Largo, Ovideo, Southridge (Miami), Dillard (Fort Lauderdale), Wharton (Tampa)

Class 2M

1. Norland (Miami) 7-0 (10 first-place votes)

2.  American Heritage (Plantation) 5-1 (1 first-place vote)

3. Central (Miami) 3-3

4. Booker T. Washington (Miami) 5-2

5. Raines (Jacksonville) 6-1

6. Berkeley Prep (Tampa) 5-2

7. Calvary Christian (Clearwater) 5-2

8. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale) 5-2

9. Riverside (Jacksonville) 6-2

10. Bolles (Jacksonville) 4-4

ARV: Bishop Moore (Orlando), Northwestern (Miami), Edison (Miami), King's Academy (West Palm Beach), Saint Andrew's (Boca Raton)

Class 1M

1. Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood) 7-0 (11 first-place votes)

2. Clearwater Central Catholic 7-0

3. Carrollwood Day (Tampa) 5-1

4. Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach) 6-1

5. Benjamin (Palm Beach Gardens) 6-1

ARV: Trinity Christian (Jacksonville), Providence (Jacksonville), True North Classical (Miami), Orlando Christian Prep, Archbishop Carroll (Miami)

Class 4S

1. Buchholz (Gainesville) 7-0 (9 first-place votes)

2. Lakeland 7-2 (1 first-place vote)

3. Venice 5-2 (1 first-place vote)

4. Niceville 6-1

5. Vero Beach 6-1

6. Treasure Coast (Port St. Lucie) 5-2

7. Ponte Vedra 6-1

8. Pace 6-1

9. Bartram Trail (St. Johns) 4-3

10. DeLand 5-2

ARV: University (Orange City), Manatee (Bradenton), Heritage (Palm Beach), Chiles Tallahassee), Lake Minneola

Class 3S

1. Mainland (Daytona Beach) 7-0 (11 first-place votes)

2. St. Augustine 6-0

3. Lake Wales 7-0

4. Lincoln (Tallahassee) 6-1

5. Vanguard (Ocala) 6-1

6.  Eau Gallie (Melbourne) 6-1

7.  Naples 7-1

8.  Choctawhatchee (Fort Walton Beach) 5-2

9.  Escambia (Pensacola) 5-2

10. Rockledge 4-3

ARV: Sebring, Golden Gate (Naples), Port Charlotte, Leesburg, Columbia (Lake City)

Class 2S

1. Cocoa 6-1 (11 first-place votes)

2. Bishop Verot (Fort Myers) 6-1

3. Bradford (Starke) 7-0

4. Wakulla (Crawfordville) 8-0

5. Florida High (Tallahassee) 5-2

6. Walton (DeFuniak Springs) 7-0

7. Pensacola Catholic 5-2

8. South Sumter (Bushnell) 7-1

9.  Fort Meade 6-0

10. Titusville 7-1

ARV: Suwannee (Live Oak), Hudson, Dunnellon, Lemon Bay (Englewood), Yulee

Class 1S

1. First Baptist (Naples) 5-2 (9 first-place votes)  

2. Cardinal Mooney (Sarasota) 6-1 (2 first-place votes)  

3. Trinity Catholic (Ocala) 2-5

4. North Florida Christian (Tallahassee) 5-2 

5.  Community School (Naples) 7-0

ARV:  Victory Christian (Lakeland, Lakeland Christian, Zephyrhills Christian, Holy Trinity (Melbourne), Evangelical (Fort Myers) 

Class 1R 

1. Hawthorne 7-0 (11 first-place votes)

2. Williston 7-0

3. Madison County 4-1 

4. Newberry 5-2

5. Fort White 6-1

ARV: Union County (Lake Butler), Pahokee, Holmes County (Bonifay) Lafayette (Mayo), Bozeman (Panama City)