By JESSE SMITHEY Here is your 5Star Preps football stats report through Week 3 of the 2020 high school football season. Don't see your team? No worries. Just have your team's coach submit cumulative stats each week to 5StarPreps@Gmail.com. … [Read more...]
WEEK 4 (2020) Game Predictions
By JESSE SMITHEY You're here to see who we got winning the Alcoa-Maryville game, right? Sure you are. So, let's go ahead and get to it (and plenty of other games in East Tennessee, too.) … [Read more...]
10 SURPRISE PLAYERS SO FAR IN 2020
By JESSE SMITHEY It's still early in the 2020 high school football season, so take this article for what it's worth. But there have been a few players who have raised our eyebrows a time or two already this fall. So let's shout 'em … [Read more...]
The Maryville-Alcoa rivalry, aka The Battle of Pistol Creek, set for 92nd meeting on Friday
In our debut football season of 2018, we wrote a historical glance at the Alcoa-Maryville Rivalry, giving you all its top games, moments, heroes and coaches dating back to 2000. We reheated it in 2019. Now, we rehash it again. And why not? … [Read more...]
5Star Preps Top 15 Football Teams (Week 4, 2020)
By JESSE SMITHEY Here are the Top 15 football teams in the 5Star Preps coverage area heading into Week 4 of the high school football season. Plus, five more teams on the verge of making the rankings. … [Read more...]
WEEK 3 BOXSCORES and SCOREBOARD
Catch up on all the football boxscores and scoreboard for Week 3 games. … [Read more...]
Maryville football denies Cleveland’s upset hopes, 34-7; turns focus to Alcoa in Week 4
By JESSE SMITHEY MARYVILLE — The streak warrants repeating, especially now that region play has entered the fray. The Maryville High School football program hasn't lost to a league opponent since 2000, and Cleveland had hopes of being the team to … [Read more...]
Alcoa Middle School football has helped lay groundwork for state titles
By JESSE SMITHEY Alcoa High School has won more football state titles than any program in TSSAA history. Eighteen of them. And over the past 20 seasons, the Tornadoes have reeled in 14 championships -- including the last five in Class … [Read more...]
What Happened on Thursday night of Week 3 (2020)
By JESSE SMITHEY Jaiden Hannibal started Rockwood's night with a touchdown midway through the first quarter. And by the end of the night, he proved a TV star. Hannibal scored four touchdowns in a Rivalry Thursday contest against Oliver … [Read more...]
5Star Preps WEEK 3 (2020) GAME PREDICTIONS
By JESSE SMITHEY We didn't get all our predictions right in Week 2. But one we did nail is that the law of averages would bring us back down after going 30-2 in Week 1. Still, we won 20 games in Week 2. But we're feeling good about a … [Read more...]