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Longtime followers of national high school football know the deal: Winning a national championship can sometimes hinge on things outside your control:
Louisville Trinity earned the 2011 National Championship trophy but where will that Shamrock team fall in the last six seasons?
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A weaker-than-expected strength of schedule;
Or worse, simply having a program-best team during the wrong year.
Huh?
Let us explain. There’s nothing better than saying you’re the national champ – and then comparing yourself to national champs of years past.
But we’re going to do one better.
Instead of ranking the national champions from the modern era — national polls started in 1910, became popular in the 1970s, and blossomed in the 2000s — we’re going to rank the Top 25 individual teams from the six HSFB100 years.
Not only will we find out the best team of the HSFB100 era – we’ll find out the best teams. Which years were stronger than others. Which great teams had the unfortunate fate of playing in the same year as an all-time great.
It could mean top teams from a certain weaker year are farther down than their national championship season spot at No. 1.
It will certainly mean top schools will have two (or more) of their teams ranks.
After already ranking the top programs of the HSFB100 era it was time to dig deeper.
And, of course, all of that means there should be a heck of a debate.
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The team rankings will be updated as follows.
| No. 1 Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas, 2008 | Read more | ||||
| No. 2 Miami (Fla.) Booker T. Washington, 2013 | Read more | ||||
| No. 3 Allen (Texas) High, 2013 | Read more | ||||
| No. 4 Bellflower (Cali.) St. John Bosco, 2013 | Read more | ||||
| No. 5 Batesville (Miss.) South Panola, 2010 | Read more | ||||
| No. 6 Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas, 2010 | Read more | ||||
| No. 7 River Ridge (La.) John Curtis, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 8 Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco, 2009 | Read more | ||||
| No. 9 Louisville (Ky.) Trinity, 2011 | Read more | ||||
| No. 10 Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco, 2011 | Read more | ||||
| No. 11 Seffner (Fla.) Armwood, 2011 | Read more | ||||
| No. 12 Miami (Fla.) Central, 2013 | Read more | ||||
| No. 13 DeSoto (Texas) High, 2013 | Read more | ||||
| No. 14 Austin (Texas) Lake Travis, 2009 | Read more | ||||
| No. 15 Concord (Cali.) De La Salle, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 16 Lakewood (Ohio) St. Edward, 2010 | Read more | ||||
| No. 17 Katy (Texas) High, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 18 Loganville (Ga.) Grayson, 2011 | Read more | ||||
| No. 19 Allen (Texas) High, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 20 Norcross (Ga.) High, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 21 Allen (Texas) High, 2008 | Read more | ||||
| No. 22 Hampton (Vir.) Phoebus, 2008 | Read more | ||||
| No. 23 Hoover (Ala.) High, 2012 | Read more | ||||
| No. 24 Cleveland (Ohio) St. Ignatius, 2008 | Read more | ||||
| No. 25 Corona (Cali.) Centennial, 2008 | Read more | ||||
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