USA TODAY Sports has divided the country into regions – Florida, Texas, California, Southeast, Midwest, East, Plains and West – and ranked the best school football groups within them.
Teams that won’t play this fall have been eliminated from USA TODAY’s regional preseason ranking.
You can return to the Super 25 pre-season rankings and also see USA TODAY Sports All-USA preseason team, where we introduce you to the best school football players in the country while (some of them) prepare to take the field. this season.
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1. IMG Academy (Bradenton):
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
3. Central (Miami)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. Edgewater (Orlando)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Northwest (Miami)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
6. American Heritage (Plantation)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Seventh Deerfield Beach
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
8. Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
9. Armwood (Seffner)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
10. Palmetto
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
They also won votes: Apopka, Booker T.Washington (Miami), Christopher Columbus (Miami), Lakeland, Seminole (Sanford)
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1. Duncanville
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Galena North Shore
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
3. Austin Westlake
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Fourth Katy
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Shadow Creek Alvin
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
6th Allen
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Seventh Guyer Denton
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Eighth Carroll Southlake
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Ninth Ryan Denton
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
Tenth DeSoto
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
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(Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee)
1. Grayson (Loganville, Georgia)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Lowndes (Valdosta, Georgia)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
3. Trinity (Louisville, Ky.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. Thompson (Alabaster, Alabama)
Record: 1-0; Last result: def. Oxford, 56-34.
5. Dutch Fork (Irmo, S.C.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
6. Archbishop Rummel (Metairie, Louisiana)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
7. Hoover (Alabama)
Record: 1-0; Last result: def. Central (City of Phenix), 45-35.
8. North Gwinnett (Suwanee, Georgia)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
9. Parkview (Lilburn, Georgia)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
10. Catholic-B.R. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
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(Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
1. De Smet Jesuit (St. Louis)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Center Grove (Greenwood, Indiana)
Record: 1-0; Last result: def. Decatur Central, 56-14.
3. Pickerington Central (Pickerington, Ohio)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. La Salle (Cincinnati)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Mentor, Ohio
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
6. St. Edward (Lakewood, Ohio)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
7. Washington (Massillon, Ohio)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
8. Carmelo (Ind.)
Record: 1-0; Last result: def. Plainfield, 31-6.
9. Dowling Catholic (West Des Moines, Iowa)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
10. Webb City (Mo.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
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(Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont)
1. St. Peter’s Prep (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
3. St. Joseph Regional (Montvale, N.J.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. Pine-Richland (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Central Catholic (Pittsburgh)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
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(Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota)
1. Bixby (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Owasso (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
3. Jenks (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. Tulsa Union (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Bellevue West (Nebraska)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
6. Derby (Kan.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
7. Carl Albert (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
8. Omaha Westside (Nebraska)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
9. Broken Arrow (Oklahoma)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
10. Bridgewater / Emery / Ethan (S.D.)
Record: 1-0; Last result: def. Wagner, 50-6 years old.
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(Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
1. Chandler (Ariz.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
2. Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah)
Record: 2-0; Last result: def. Herriman, 56-0
3. Saguaro (Ariz.)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
4. Hamilton (Chandler, Arizona)
Registration: 0-0; Last result: N/A.
5. Lone Peak (Highland, Utah)
Record: 2-0; Last result: def. Jordan, 52-3.
States that do play football in the fall: California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C.