High school football: Felt's Facts Week 6

The 2009 regular season has reached its midpoint and this week some teams in Region 1 play their fifth region game, while two regions – 10 (ALA, Carbon, Park City, Union and Wasatch) and 12 (Delta, Emery, Juab, Manti, North Sanpete and Richfield) start region action. But Union has a bye and doesn't play its first region game until next Wednesday.

Region 3 is a little strange in that this week, Copper Hills and Riverton play their third region contest while Bingham plays its first.

Hot Starts (besides Ogden)

South Sevier hasn't ever been 5-0 and hopes to extend its undefeated season when it hosts Parowan.

South Summit was last 5-0 in 2007, but if the Wildcats can defeat San Juan, SS has a chance to match its best-ever 6-0 start set 58 seasons ago in 1951. San Juan has won the two previous meetings, both Class 2A finals, in 1998 and 2000.

Wasatch started the 2005 season with a 5-0 mark but hasn't been 6-0 since 1982.

Pleasant Grove can go 5-0 for the first time since 1985 with a win over American Fork.

Bountiful is off to its first 5-0 start since it advanced to the 1999 finals with a 12-0 record.

Rich hasn't been 4-0 since its championship 13-0 season of 2002.

OK – this has been for several weeks, but just to save time finding it, Ogden is off to its best start since going 11-0 in 1966, one of only two undefeated, untied seasons the Tigers have had.

Turnarounds

Brighton's improvement from 2-9 to 4-1, Murray's from 0-10 to 2-3 and Provo's from 2-8 to 4-1 so far are notable, but the biggest turnaround currently belongs to Wasatch, which has improved from 2-9 last year to 5-0 this season.

Winning Streak

Juan Diego can become just the 14th school to win 20 straight games with a win over Grantsville. Five 5-0 schools – Bountiful, Ogden, South Sevier, South Summit and Wasatch – tie for the second longest current winning streak.

Some Notable Performances