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Westlake Lions Standing Tall at 6-1 With a First-Place Fight Against Carrollton Up Next

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October 22, 2026

The Westlake Lions have spent this fall proving they belong in every conversation about Georgia’s best football teams, and at 6-1, the Lions are done asking for permission to be taken seriously.

Westlake’s only loss came in a 40-38 classic against Newton, a game with eight lead changes that was not decided until a touchdown in the final minute. Lesser teams might have folded after a heartbreaker like that. The Lions instead went on the road and survived East Coweta 35-34, escaping with a one-point win that says everything about this group’s toughness.

The Lions have done it with firepower. On3’s team data credits Westlake with 44.4 points per game this season, and the Lions needed nearly all of it in their biggest wins, putting 35 on East Coweta and 38 on Newton in back-to-back weeks of region play. This is not a team that wins one way. Westlake can trade scores with anybody, and it can survive a one-point grinder on the road.

That resilience is why Westlake sits in the state Top 25 in the High School On SI rankings, and at No. 21 in the High School Football America Georgia Top 25, with a defense and a balanced attack that have kept the Lions in every single game they have played this season.

Now comes the biggest test of the year. Unbeaten Carrollton visits on Friday, October 23, in a game that will be shown on GPB and could reshape the top of the region standings. Carrollton has scored at least 49 points in every game this season, so the Lions’ defense will have to play its best game of the fall.

Win or lose, Westlake has already shown Fulton County something important this season: this is a program built to play its best football when the games matter most, and the Lions are just getting started.

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Miller Grove Wolverines Hunting a Strong Finish After a Season of Fights

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October 22, 2026

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The Miller Grove Wolverines opened their season with a statement, and they have been fighting ever since. A 31-0 shutout of Chamblee in the opener showed what this Lithonia team can be, and the Wolverines have spent the fall proving that night was no fluke.

Miller Grove owns a 35-6 road win at McNair and a 20-8 win at Carver in Atlanta, victories built on defense and toughness. Look at those three wins together and a pattern emerges: Chamblee scored zero, McNair scored six and Carver scored eight. When the Wolverines win, they win with a defense that gives up almost nothing, and that identity travels anywhere. At 3-4, with 131 points scored and 135 allowed, nearly every Wolverines game this season has been a genuine fight, decided by which team made the plays late.

That includes the tough nights. The Wolverines fell 42-10 to a strong Columbia team on October 16 and dropped a 28-21 heartbreaker at M.L. King in an all-DeKalb battle earlier this season. Those are the kinds of games a program learns from.

That defensive identity is worth repeating, because it is rare: across their three wins, the Wolverines have allowed a total of 14 points. Fourteen. In an era of spread offenses and video-game scores, Miller Grove wins the old-fashioned way, with tackling, discipline and a defense that takes points personally. That travels in November, and it gives the Wolverines a real chance in every game left on the schedule.

The closing stretch gives Miller Grove every chance to finish the right way. South Atlanta visits on Friday, October 23, then the Wolverines travel to Cedar Grove on October 30 before closing at home against Redan.

Three games, three chances to turn a season of fights into a winning finish. In Lithonia, the Wolverines and their families have every reason to believe that is exactly what happens next.