Week 2 in Class AA brought several intriguing matchups to the table, with some being surprisingly lopsided and others surprisingly close. In all, only one ranked team lost, though three — No. 2 Heard County, No. 5 Brooks County and No. 7 Dodge County — were on bye. Top-ranked Hapeville Charter doesn't play until Saturday.
We’ll start with a surprisingly lopsided game — the No. 4 Thomasville Bulldogs annihilated crosstown rival Thomas County Central 39-7. For the second year in a row, the Bulldogs (2-0) beat rivals Cairo and TCC in the same season when, before last season, they hadn’t done that since 1991.
In his writeup for the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Pat Donahue writes that the Bulldogs scored 21 second-quarter points in 2:35 to go up 33-0.
In Hogansville, the No. 3 Callaway Cavaliers hosted and Beat Opelika (Ala.), which is ranked No. 6 in AAAAAA — Alabama's second-highest classification — according to the Alabama Sports Writers Association rankings. The Cavs won 35-21 in what was their season opener.
Kevin Eckleberry of the LaGrange Daily News writes that the Cavs scored three consecutive touchdowns in the second half to pull away. OAnow.com also wrote about the game.
Here’s how the rest of the top 10 faired:
- The No. 6 Bremen Blue Devils moved to 2-0 with a 41-7 win over Bowdon. The Times-Georgian has a recap.
- The No. 8 Rabun County Wildcats beat North Murray 52-42 in a shootout that many assumed would be a Wildcats blowout. Maxwell's projections pegged them as 22-point favorites. They rebounded from last week's loss to Bremen and are now 1-1. Both Access WDUN and The Daily Citizen have write-ups on the game.
- The No. 9 Fitzgerald Purple Hurricane represent the lone loss among the ranked, coming up short to A-public's No. 2 Irwin County, 16-10. It was the first time Irwin County beat Fitzgerald since 1999 and it was very hard for me not to make a lame Prince reference here. The Purple Hurricane fell to 1-1.
- The No. 10 Rockmart Yellow Jackets steamrolled Central-Carrollton on the way to a 51-7 victory. They are now 2-0 on the season.
Follow the AJC’s Class AA coverage here.
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