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# Pigskin Prophets: Week 2
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/pigskin-prophets-week-2-10/
- Published: 2025-09-12T15:57:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-12T15:57:34.000Z
- Description: We're in the thick of it now, heading into the second week of the high school football season.
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Fall Sports, Division I, Division II, Division III, Division IV, football, Pigskin Prophets, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

*Grab the bull by the horns, the old adage goes* 
*Nobody tells you where to go from here* 
*Well, seems like fate's pulling you, decisions have to be made* 
*The best path is the hardest earnedBack and forth, the struggle consumes us all* 
*Trying to keep a level head* 
*In the most unsettling of times* 
*Today, I become the bull*

- [*Becoming the Bull by Atreyu*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqCt54Wx2e0&ref=nh-highschoolsports.com)

We're in the thick of it now, heading into the second week of the high school football season. Now we start to figure out just who has the staying power. Who toiled away throughout the offseason to begin a journey to the top.

With more confidence than we should have, here are the picks (home team in CAPS).

### Joe Marchilena

- NASHUA SOUTH over Bedford
- Exeter over PORTSMOUTH-OYSTER RIVER
- LONDONDERRY over Concord
- TIMBERLANE over Winnacunnet
- SALEM over Alvirne
- TRINITY over Kingswood
- Merrimack Valley over BOW
- STEVENS over Newport
- Mascoma Valley over RAYMOND
- BISHOP GUERTIN over Merrimack

**Last Week:** 8-2\. **Season:** 8-2.

*Joe Marchilena is the owner and editor of NH-HighSchoolSports.com, and has been covering high school sports in New Hampshire since 2005.*

### Mike Lochman

- Bedford over NASHUA SOUTH
- PORTSMOUTH-OYSTER RIVER over Exeter
- LONDONDERRY over Concord
- TIMBERLANE over Winnacunnet
- SALEM over Alvirne
- TRINITY over Kingswood
- BOW over Merrimack Valley
- Newport over STEVENS
- Mascoma Valley over RAYMOND
- BISHOP GUERTIN over Merrimack

**Last Week:** 10-0\. **Season:** 10-0.

*Mike Lochman coached high school football in New Hampshire for 20 years at Merrimack, Hollis Brookline and Souhegan, and is a co-host for the Ninth State Sports Show football podcast.* 

### George Scione

- NASHUA SOUTH over Bedford
- PORTSMOUTH-OYSTER RIVER over Exeter
- LONDONDERRY over Concord
- Winnacunnet over TIMBERLANE
- Alvirne over SALEM
- TRINITY over Kingswood
- BOW over Merrimack Valley
- STEVENS over Newport
- RAYMOND over Mascoma Valley
- BISHOP GUERTIN over Merrimack

**Last Week:** 10-0\. **Season:** 10-0.

*George Scione writes for NH-HighSchoolSports.com and has covered high school sports in New Hampshire since 1995.*

### Dan Doyon

- Bedford over NASHUA SOUTH
- Exeter over PORTSMOUTH-OYSTER RIVER
- LONDONDERRY over Concord
- TIMBERLANE over Winnacunnet
- SALEM over Alvirne
- TRINITY over Kingswood
- BOW over Merrimack Valley
- Newport over STEVENS
- RAYMOND over Mascoma Valley
- BISHOP GUERTIN over Merrimack

**Last Week:** 8-2\. **Season:** 8-2.

*Dan Doyon covers high school sports in New Hampshire for several media outlets.*