Douglas County's James Johnson scored three touchdowns and had eight tackles in a victory over defending Class 6A champion Hughes; Jefferson's Sammy Brown does a little big of everything in a Region 8-5A win over Clarke Central; and Worth County freshman Lyndon Worthy passes for 409 yards and six touchdowns against Terrell County.

Coffee’s football team is No. 1 for the first time, and Calvary Day made a bid to do the same but remained No. 2 in the AJC rankings this week despite No. 1 Cedar Grove losing for the fourth time.. Coffee is on top of the Class 5A rankings after previous No. 1, Ware County, the defending champion, lost to Class 4A’s No. 4 team, Bainbridge, 35-21 last week.

Aaron Philo, the reigning GHSA passing leader, is back on top of the GHSA’s passing leaderboard through five weeks. The Prince Avenue Christian quarterback passed for 408 yards in a 58-18 victory over Eagle’s Landing Christian last week. That was his fifth career 400-yard passing game and boosted him into first place with his season total of 1,520.

The top two teams in Class A-Division I will meet for their Region 6 opener when No. 2 Macon County travels to No. 1 Schley County; Douglas County and Hughes will try to establish themselves as the front-runner in Region 5-6A; and first-year Lowndes coach Adam Carter will face his former team when the Vikings travel to Grayson for a non-region Class 7A game.

For sake of creativity and civics, GHSF Daily has placed the GHSA’s 413 football-playing schools into their U.S. congressional districts and ranked them using the computer Maxwell Ratings. The idea is not that creative, actually. Georgia high school teams in various sports competed for district championships for decades and into the 1950s before the GHSA's region format took hold.

Prince Avenue Christian quarterback Aaron Philo passes for 408 yards and six touchdowns to guide his team to another lopsided victory; running backs Nick Woodford of Northeast and Zion Johnson of Newton lead their teams to important wins; and Bryan County's Austin Clemons and East Coweta's Deshun Horsley make their presence felt on both sides of the ball.

Boosted by a victory over No. 7 Westlake, Newton moved into the Class 7A rankings this week, taking Westlake’s previous spot, while Lumpkin County and Lanier County each are ranked for the first time in more than 50 years. Newton won 27-12 against what the computer Maxwell Rankings pegged as 18-point favorite. The Rams are 5-0 for the first time since 1950.

North Murray’s Skyler Williams and Judson Petty and Monroe Area’s Darrion Manuel are the GHSA’s yardage leaders after four weeks. Williams has thrown for 1,249 yards, and 687 of those have gone to Petty, a preseason all-state pick. The GHSA’s rushing leader, Manuel, has rushed for more than 100 yards in each of his four games, including a season-high 219 against Cedar Shoals.