MOULTRIE — Colquitt County and Warner Robins, two of the perennial powers in Georgia high school football, find themselves this week in very strange, but similar, circumstances.

The two teams, which will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium, face elimination from the Class AAAAA playoff picture and are staring at another rarity.

Both teams — which are an identical 2-6 overall and 1-3 in the region — are likely to finish the 2007 season with losing records.

Warner Robins, which has won 23 region championships, four state championships and a pair of mythical national championships, has not had a losing season since 1966.

The Demons went 1-9 that year under Joe Sumrall.

Two years later, Warner Robins was 9-1.

The Demons free fall this season was not expected, even though the team lost a number of key performers from last year’s team that went 9-5 after a trip to the Georgia Dome and the state semifinals.

In fact, over the last four seasons under coach Bryan Way, the Demons were 32-7-1.

Last Friday’s loss to Tift County was especially disappointing.

Warner Robins led 13-6 in the fourth quarter before Blue Devils quarterback Nick Prostko threw two touchdown passes in the final nine minutes to give Tift County a 21-13 victory.

The Demons got a pair of field goals from David Clark and a 69-yard touchdown pass from quarterback W.J. McCallister to Rashad Wynes late in the third quarter.

“It’s the same story every week,” Way told The Macon Telegraph after the game. “We cannot make a play on either side of the ball. When the time comes and we need to step up and make a play, on both offense and defense, we have not been able to do it.”

Colquitt County, which has not posted a losing record since 1983, also would like to reverse its recent fortunes.

After five games last year, the Packers were 5-0 and ranked No. 1 in Class AAAAA.

Colquitt has gone 3-10 since then.