Big shakeup in this week’s football polls

ISHPEMING – There’s some big changes in this week’s Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association (UPSSA) football polls. There is a new #1 team in all three polls. Ishpeming is the #1 ranked team in the Big School Poll. Forest Park sits alone in first place for the first time this season. After a 20-19 win over Cedarville on Friday, Rapid River is the top ranked team in the Eight Man football poll.

BIG SCHOOL

1.  Ishpeming (5)        6-0  33

2.  Menominee  (2)   6-0  30

3.  West Iron Co.        6-0  19

4.  Marquette             5-1  16

5.  Iron Mountain      4-2    6

Other:  Sault Ste. Marie  3-3, 1

LITTLE SCHOOL

1.  Forest Park (3)  4-1  30

2.  St. Ignace    (4)   6-0 29

3.  Munising             5-1  21

4.  LL-Hubbell          5-1  17

5.  BR-Harris             5-1    6

Other:  Gogebic 3-2, 2.  Gogebic played an eight-man game against Ontonagon on Saturday so the game doesn’t not count on its 11-man record.

EIGHT MAN

1.  Rapid River  (7)  6-0  35

2.  Cedarville           5-1   28