Fort Recovery football ranked third

In the first OHSAA football computer rankings released Tuesday, Fort Recovery High School is ranked third in Division VII Region 26.
The top eight teams from each region at the end of the season earn a playoff berth.
Cincinnati’s Miami Valley Christian Academy and Troy Christian are the only schools ahead of the Indians in Region 26. Following the Indians in the top eight are De Graff Riverside, Covington, Cincinnati College Prep Academy, Ada and Hardin Northern.
Fort Recovery (4-0, 2-0 Midwest Athletic Conference) is also Division VII No. 3 in the most recent Associated Press poll. The Tribe received two of the 22 first-place votes, and has 129 points. Danville is first with 210, and Caldwell is second with 200.
Lucas (122), Warren John F. Kennedy (106), West Unity Hilltop (76), Mogadore (72), MAC foe Minster (66), McComb (63) and Toronto (52) round out the AP top 10.
This is the highest ranking in the AP poll for the Indians, who earned the team’s first playoff berth in 2014 with a No. 5 seed. The Indians eventually fell in the regional semifinal to eventual state champion and conference foe Marion Local.
Minster, which won the Division VI state championship a year ago, is ranked eighth by the AP in Division VII, and currently sits tied for 11th in the computer rankings.
Marion Local, which has won four consecutive Division VII championships and bumped up Division VI because of enrollment, sits at No. 1 in the AP poll. Coldwater, which won the Division V title in 2014, is also ranked No. 1.