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HOW THEY FARED: How the STATE CHAMPS! top 25 Michigan football teams fared in Week 1

By: MATTHEW B. MOWERY, September 1, 2019, 2:03 pm

Here’s how the top 25 teams from the STATE CHAMPS! preseason poll fared in their first action of the season on Thursday, Friday and Saturday:

1 West Bloomfield (1-0) — Beat No. 3 Oak Park, 20-14 [STORY] [HIGHLIGHTS]

2 Belleville (1-0) — Beat Salem, 54-0

3 Oak Park (0-1) — Lost to No. 1 West Bloomfield, 20-14 [STORY] [HIGHLIGHTS]

4 Muskegon (1-0) — Beat No. 7 Warren De La Salle, 41-7 [HIGHLIGHTS]

5 Detroit King (0-1) — Lost to No. 16 Novi Detroit Catholic Central, 24-22 [STORY]

6 Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley (1-0) — Beat No. 14 Saline, 35-21 [HIGHLIGHTS]

7 Warren De La Salle (0-1) — Lost to No. 4 Muskegon, 41-7 [HIGHLIGHTS]

8 Detroit Cass Tech (0-1) — Lost to Chicago Wendell Phillips, 26-9

9 Clarkston (0-1) — Lost to Southfield A&T, 28-14 [STORY]

10 Lapeer (0-1) — Lost to Lake Orion, 17-7

11 Macomb Dakota (0-1) — Lost to Orchard Lake St. Mary’s, 28-14

12 DeWitt (1-0) — Beat Traverse City Central, 31-26

13 River Rouge (0-1) — Lost to Grand Rapids Catholic Central, 17-14 [HIGHLIGHTS]

14 Saline (0-1) — Lost to No. 6 Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley, 35-21 [HIGHLIGHTS]

15 South Lyon (1-0) — Beat Walled Lake Central, 46-0

16 Novi Detroit Catholic Central (1-0) — Beat No. 5 Detroit King, 24-22 [STORY]

17 Birmingham Groves (1-0) — Beat Grosse Pointe South, 34-21 [HIGHLIGHTS]

18 Muskegon Mona Shores (1-0) — Beat No. 23 East Kentwood, 28-7

19 Mt. Pleasant (1-0) — Beat Petoskey, 35-14

20 Livonia Franklin (1-0) — Beat Howell, 58-21

21 Brighton (1-0) — Beat Livonia Churchill, 21-7

22 Dearborn Fordson (1-0) — Beat Hartland, 24-14

23 East Kentwood (0-1) — Lost to No. 18 Muskegon Mona Shores, 28-7

24 Port Huron Northern (1-0) — Beat St. Clair Shores Lake Shore, 42-6

25 Midland (1-0) — Beat Traverse City West, 28-20