High School Football: This Week's Prediction

Every week, I pick high school football games that are played in Patch coverage areas from Cumming to Stone Mountain.

Check out this week's predictions, then let us know how you think your team will fare in the comment box below ... if you dare.

Last week’s best picks: Grayson 42, Shiloh 14 (actual score, Grayson 42, Shiloh 14); Blessed Trinity 21, Westminster 17 (actual score, Blessed Trinity 21, Westminster 14).

Last week’s worst picks: North Forsyth 21, Northview 20 (actual score, Northview 39, North Forsyth 13); Stone Mountain 24, Columbia 12 (actual score, Columbia 21, Stone Mountain 7); West Forsyth 24, Alpharetta 21 (actual score, Alpharetta 27, West Forsyth 14).

Last week's record: 10-6. Overall record: 107-30.

Are you ready this week's pick?

Mays at (Adams Stadium): It’s about time, right? Tucker may be forced to play its first-teamers well into the second half. The Tigers (5-0), who have averaged 65 points in their last three games, face their most important game since beating Marist in the second week of the season.

Mays also is 5-0, and is viewed as the third-best team in Region 6-AAAA behind Tucker and Marist. The Raiders have something to prove in this one, and a win likely would pave the way for them to earn a No. 1 or 2 seeding (and home field) for the state playoffs. Tucker is ranked No. 1 in the state for a reason. The Tigers are deep and fast on both sides of the line — for example, 12 different players, including Dallas Rivers’ eight, have scored at least one touchdown. Tucker 28, Mays 13.

Scott Bernarde is the Associate Regional Editor for 12 Patch sites in Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and DeKalb counties.