When The Sun's new polls are revealed Wednesday, it's entirely possible that two Howard County teams will be at the head of two of them, volleyball and football.

With top-ranked St. Paul's loss to No. 10 Archbishop Spalding Friday, No.2 Reservoir (14-0) appears poised to move up to No.1. With Centennial's perennial success, having a Howard team at the top of the local volleyball scene is hardly unprecedented, but it would be the first time that the Gators, or at least the Reservoir variety, would get there.

Meanwhile, the combination of No.1 Loyola's 24-7 loss to Mount St. Joseph and second-ranked River Hill's 41-0 pasting of Atholton should propel the Hawks to the top of the polls, marking one of the rare occasions when an area public school is the No.1 football team.

Indeed, the current polls show that all but three of the top 15 are public schools, and there's a decent chance that River Hill, No.3 Dunbar and No.4 Arundel, all unbeaten at 7-0, could occupy the top three slots, which would be even more unusual than having the top team come from a public school.

There's one big caveat to this posting: As previously stated, I don't have any input, voting or otherwise, on The Sun's polls, so my guesses are as good as yours.