Most of these teams graduated a lot!. Water Valley will not be as strong early in the season as in years past. Strawn graduated in the neighborhood of 10 varsity players, they will have at least two good athletes returning. Walnut has their SB returning, if they can find some defense, they might be pretty good early on. Aquilla graduated their "hoss" rb, the rest of the team looked average in comparison.
Most of these schools have good programs in place, with all of the holes in their lineups that they will have to fill, they will be better toward the end of the year than in the first game.