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Seven HSFB100 teams in Pac-5 Elite Eight

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The Pac-5 playoffs moves into its second round with eight favorites — and seven HSFB100 teams — advancing. The lone team left in the bracket without a ranking is Norco (CA) and it has the unenviable task of slowing down No. 5 St. John Bosco (Bellflower, CA). Norco got to this point by beating St. Bonaventure (Ventura, CA) in a ... Read More »

Playoff blowouts make for minor shuffles in Media Top 25

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For the second week in a row the teams deemed elite by the national media held serve as there was not single turnover from the Media Compilation Top 25. The movement inside the poll was based on poor performances as two teams lost polls and fell from their previous spots while two teams that suffered major injuries remained in their ... Read More »

Plant, Lake Mary may be teams to upset Florida 8A order

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The Florida Class 8A playoffs went largely as expected in the opening round of play. The second round may not play out the same way as multiple contests could go the way of the underdog. Prior to the playoffs starting NationalHSFootball.com made its picks for the bracket and selected two upsets in the North half of the bracket that could ... Read More »

Clay-Chalkville loses top player for Alabama 6A playoffs

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The top-ranked team in the Alabama Class 6A playoffs was dealt a serious blow to its title hopes as Clay-Chalkville (Pinson, AL) running back Terelle West has been diagnosed with a torn ACL and lateral meniscus. West is the all-time leading rusher at the school with 3,536 yards and he ended his senior year with 1,428 on 158 carries with ... Read More »

Ohio Division I playoffs move to quarterfinals

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The third round of the 2014 Ohio High School Athletic Association awaits 56 teams that have advanced through the first two weeks of the postseason. The third round marks the regional finals in Divisions II through VII and the regional semifinals in Division I. The following seeds have advanced to the third round: No. 1 (20), No. ... Read More »

Familiar names return to the HSFB100 rankings

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Four of the seven teams that earned entrance to the HSFB100 national rankings this week are not strangers to the poll. No. 80 Archer (Lawrenceville, GA) leads the pack which also includes Mountain Pointe (Phoenix, AZ), St. Joseph’s Prep (Philadelphia, AZ), and Saguaro (Scottsdale, AZ) at Nos. 95, 96, and 97, respectively. New programs like Westlake (Atlanta, GA), West Orange ... Read More »

Texas teams have stock, rankings fall after escapes

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Expected to be one of the most difficult districts in the country when it was formed this February, the Texas 7-6A was nearly wiped out of the playoffs in the first round. The bottom two qualifiers were crushed by HSFB100 members as Coppell (TX) was pounded by DeSoto (TX), 61-35, and Heritage (Colleyville, TX) barely showed defensive wounds as it ... Read More »