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.

Two pairs of unbeaten Class 7A teams will square off in Week 5 when Westlake travels to Newton and East Coweta visits Lowndes. Other top games include ACE Charter against Northeast in a game that will establish the team to beat in Region 2-2A, Marist against Blessed Trinity in a 6A battle of Catholic schools, and Stratford Academy against St. Anne-Pacelli in a rematch of last year's GIAA Class 4A championship game.

There are 38 teams undefeated teams that GHSF Daily does not have ranked four weeks into the regular season. These 10 are especially intriguing - Central (Carrollton), Dalton, Douglas County, East Coweta, Lanier County, Lowndes, Lumpkin County, North Atlanta, Ola and Peachtree Ridge

Two-way players Bryce Baker of Benedictine and Trelaine Maddox put up big numbers on both sides of the ball to lead their teams to close victories in Week 4, and Clinch County's Jeremy Bell accounted for 379 yards in a win over Cook.

Benedictine beat Ware County in a game between No. 1-ranked reigning champions last week. Both are still No. 1 in this week’s football rankings. Benedictine naturally kept its top spot in Class 4A after beating Ware 31-24 in Savannah. The Cadets are 4-0 after starting 2-2 each of the past two seasons, each ending in state titles. Ware’s 17-game winning streak is over, but its reign at No. 1 in Class 5A is not.

The Georgia High School Association’s reclassification committee voted Thursday to keep the 3.0 out-of-zone enrollment multiplier for the next reclass cycle and will decide next month on a proposal to add 18 schools to the highest classification. Using enrollment numbers for the current classification, schools that would’ve landed in a 64-school high class this year include Blessed Trinity, Houston County, Rome and Gainesville. They currently are in Class 6A, one from the highest.

The matchup of top-ranked teams Ware County of Class 5A and Benedictine of Class 4A is the headliner for Week 4 of the season. Other top games on the schedule this week include Milton vs. Roswell in a north Fulton rivalry, Marist vs. Woodward Academy in a Class 6A private-school battle, and Lee County vs. Colquitt County in a showdown for south Georgia supremacy.

More than 140 former Georgia high school football players are on active NFL rosters ahead of the league’s first game Thursday between the Chiefs and the Lions. Every NFL team has at least one Georgia player, and the Falcons have the most with nine. The Ravens are next with eight. The reigning champion Chiefs have six.

Arabia Mountain's Daniel Ndukwe and Discovery's Muhammad Alcine make game-changing plays on defense, Gainesville's Gavin Hall continues his hot start, and running backs at Jenkins County and Vidalia put up big numbers in Week 3 victories.

Gainesville and Thomson moved up to No. 1 in their classifications in the football rankings after three weeks of the regular season after previous No. 1 teams Hughes and Fitzgerald lost. Hughes was beaten by Butler, a Charlotte-area school, 30-27 on Saturday night at Atlanta’s Lakewood Stadium. Hughes, the defending Class 6A champion, had won 17 straight games.

It’s Sept. 1, and we’re talking playoffs. Loren Maxwell, creator of the Maxwell Ratings, publishes his playoff predictions weekly on ajc.com, where he talks playoffs. If nothing else, they’re newsworthy for the bracket alignment and region matchups, which change each year. And they’re great topics of motivation for the disrespected.