PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - In what turned out to be a wild first week of college football, the Lumberjacks fell two spots to 10th in the Sports Network Top 25 poll announced TSN Executive Director Craig Haley Monday afternoon. The 'Jacks fell four spots to 12th in the FCS Coaches' Top 25 poll, which was also released Monday afternoon.

COLLEGE STATION - Stephen F. Austin Head Coach J.C. Harper elected not to put his players through heavy contact drills during the preseason training camp. And if there was a doubt that the Lumberjack defense would be ready for the likes of Texas A&M in Saturday night's season opener here at Kyle Field, that question was quickly put to rest.

The Lumberjacks return one of the most talented groups of linebackers in the country. SFA will benefit from having all three starters back from last year’s Southland Conference Championship squad. It is the return of this imposing group that helped make SFA a unanimous selection to repeat as conference champions in the preseason polls, and a national preseason top 10 selection.
 

The opening weekend of high school football games was huge for the Piney Woods area high school quarterbacks. While the college teams wait another week to get underway, several area schoolboy athletes dominated play in their season openers as six of the eight local teams produced victories.