Analysis

Pushing towards the close of September and there is more to sell than buy in the Sunday Stock Watch. The new feature from NationalHSFootball.com takes the place of HSFB100 Rankings Preview but will contain similar elements and as National Week Three of the high school football season saw every state take the field there were results that stood out more ... Read More »

There were three contests on Friday night that featured HSFB100 teams battling one another and in each contest the lower ranked program came away with the victory. No. 19 Mountain Pointe (Phoenix, AZ) defeated No. 18 Chandler (AZ), 45-42. No. 43 Centennial (Corona, CA) upended No. 29 Poly (Long Beach, CA), 42-34. No. 63 Warren Central (Indianapolis, IN) edged No. ... Read More »

In what can best be described as a case of ‘No. 1 until they lose’ the first high school football AP Poll for Ohio was released and national No. 1 St. Edward (Lakewood, OH) was barely within striking distance of two-time defending state champions, Moeller (Cincinnati, OH). View HSFB100 Polls: Select Date2014 Preseason Top 25Week Zero Update – Aug. 25Week ... Read More »

As far as executing a gameplan goes the performance of Don Bosco (Ramsey, NJ) had to be nearly an exact match for how it was drawn up. The Ironmen convincingly defeated St. Thomas Aquinas (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) on Saturday afternoon, 24-7, dominating in every aspect of the contest. Don Bosco entered the game ranked No. 14 in the HSFB100 while ... Read More »

Your move, Don Bosco. In what figures to be a season-long debate atop the New Jersey state rankings — and inside the HSFB100 — No. 13 St. Peter’s Prep (Jersey City, NJ) rolled to an impressive victory over Bergen Catholic (Oradel, NJ) on ESPNU, 49-20. The score was 49-0 when St. Peter’s Prep pulled the majority of the starters and ... Read More »

“Just make sure you have all your answers ready,” he said. “Because people are going to second guess this.” The ‘he’ was my former editor Tom Bergeron and the comment was made in a 2009 rankings meeting when I said it was time to move Don Bosco (Ramsey, NJ) to the No. 1 spot in the national poll. Now — ... Read More »

Two perceived realities were dispensed of quickly by Northern California teams during National Week One of the high school football season. No. 8-ranked De La Salle (Concord, CA) long painted as a slow starter came out firing on all cylinders as it blew out a quality Jesuit (Carmichael, CA) team, 63-0. No. 21-ranked Folsom (CA) quieted critics of their results-due-to-weak-scheduling ... Read More »