I live in Ohio and follow high school football nationally. My brother lives in Florida and took me a few years back to a Lakeland game. I would say the top 5 states are in no particular order and they are all very close are Texas,California,Ohio, Florida and New Jersey. New Jersey is a small state but they produce a ton of d1 prospects and their best teams can play with anybody, Bergen Catholic, St,Joseph,Don Bosco etc.
RATIONALLY speaking; having a tourney involving all 50 states, would be a VAST WASTE of time! With the possibility of having the state champs from any states other than Arizona, Cali, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, Texas, and Georgia, would be a total waste of sweat. As an aside, I put Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio in the mix, just to keep the natives from getting restless. Nevada is actually BISHOP GORMAN and the Seven Dwarfs. And Arizona is Chandler, Basha, and Sapporo, 99% of the time. And in an oddity, Florida's best teams, generally come from the mid level classifications of 4A and 5A. out of eight classifications. But as far as depth is concerned, NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY beats the Peach State, on a year to year basis. Even Tejas usually has no more than a half dozen really pertinent teams, vying for that big school state title.
Who are the top fifteen teams in Ohio? And I'll tell you who the top fifteen in Georgia were, this past season. And head to head, you WON'T like the results. Because the seven and fifteen points that Massillon scored against their toughest competition, ain't beating ANY of those top fifteen in Georgia.
You just mentioned THREE PRIVATE schools in Jersey, who recruit THREE STATES! ***ROTFLMAO*** They play NOBODY to win a state title. The BIG North United, is a collection of those privates, who play each other in regular season, and THEN, turn around and play the SAME DAMN teams in the playoffs, after a GRUELING EIGHT GAME REGULAR SEASON! And Jersey has TEN MILLION PEOPLE and THREE legit high school programs, GET REAL. There is ten times the talent in the ATL metro than there is in ALL of JERSEY!
GEEEEZ dude. I'm TRYING to be on my best behavior here BUT! Some of the stuff that gets on here is LUDRICROUS! And NOBODY ever raises an objection. GEORGIA fits ALL of your criteria! I'll give you ONE example. 7-3 Camden Co. (the #3 seed of five teams) in our legendary Region 1-7A, trekked 313 miles in round ONE of the 7A playoffs this past season. To be cannon fodder for the #6 NATIONALLY ranked Mill Creek Hawks. They were a THIRTY point underdog. And they won 39-20, in one of the greatest upsets in NATIONAL prep football HISTORY! And the Hawks were BETTER THIS season, than last. When they and their All American safety Caleb Downs, WON the 7A State Championship over Carrollton and Freshman sensation Ju Ju Lewis, 70-35. And Camden Co. was beaten by future state runners up and national top twenty five ranked Walton in round two, after yet ANOTHER 300 plus mile trek to Marietta. Colquitt Co., who lost to 7A State Champion Milton 39-37 in round three upset, had already beaten nationally ranked Cedar Grove and South Carolina State big school champion Dutch Fork, 47-17. And FLORIDA teams won't even PLAY our best teams going forward. Northside Warner Robins has beaten Miami Central, while Grayson beat Central, 35-3, when the Rockets were #1 in the NATION! Camden Co. has ALSO beaten Central, after their trek to St. Mary's. And national power American Heritage Plantation, barely escaped the Hog Pen, 17-14, when our future All American kicker, Sophomore Ryan Fitzgerald) missed three forty yard FG. (our weakest team of the decade) He is now the three year starter at Florida State. Colquitt Co. would come back several seasons later and blast Florida power Jacksonville Trinity Christian, 38-0. And one our neighbors Lee Co., (Buster Posey, Luke Bryan, and Phillip Phillip's alma mater) beat Dr. Phillips recently in Leesburg. And we don't hear ANYTHING from St. Thomas Aquinas, Booker T. Washington, Vanguard, Lakeland, or anybody ELSE in FLAAAAWDA, who THINKS that they want what we're a cookin.
Big problem is that not a lot of states start playing when Georgia does. For instance, in 2024 the OHSAA starts a week after the GHSA. Secondly, I've covered the Corky Kell Classic (now CKDHC) twice, and the reason outside teams aren't interested is that very few have even been approached as it's a much more ATL-centric setup, AND the teams that are offered aren't really compensated enough to make it worthwhile for them to give up a potential home game or a close travel road game to play, even if it is at MBS.
Everything is bigger in Texas
Kinda like Cali has their water carried by THREE teams in a state of 40,000,000? ***ROTFLMAO***
EXCEPT when they play OUT OF STATE OPPONENTS!!! ***ROTFLMAO***
ESPECIALLY their MOUTHS! Bear Alexander wasn't getting what HE thought was adequate playing time with Kirby. SOOO, he fled to the bright lights of SOCAL. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOOO, what you are saying IS. The pinnacle of national prep football being in Ohio, is greatly EXAGGERATED?
Why SHOULDN'T it be? I recall after Colquitt beat Milton in a highly contested match up in the 2015 quarterfinals at the HOGPEN! The Eagle fans were coming back through town on their way to Atlanta. And they encountered a group of about 2000 Packer fans, who were lining the parking spaces of town square. One of their fan cars stopped next to mine. And the driver commented that he didn't think that it was very classy for our fans to be lining the streets to jeer his team as they went North. I told him NO, you have the wrong idea. WE'RE HERE to cheer on OUR PACKERS, who always circle the town square on their way back to the high school's dressing room. And after they pass, everyone piles into the bars and restaurants that line the inner city of Moultrie, to celebrate the Packer effort.
I know this isn’t about FL schools but I have to say it…
Also last time I checked, we had a 7-4-2 record against GA in the GA vs FL Bowl.
Also last time I checked, we had a 7-4-2 record against GA in the GA vs FL Bowl. Which again has been cancelled for a while.
Nice conjecture on your parts BUT! This isn't ME talking. THIS comes from the scouts of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE! GEORGIA has MORE players in the NFL than ANY................BODY!!!!! PERIOD! And it hasn't started LATELY! In FACT, for I believe, eight of the last ten seasons, Georgia is EVEN or BETTER with CALIFORNIS! They are Behind Texas by only a half dozen players, with 1/3 of their population. And Georgia is beaten out fairly significantly, only by FLORIDA, with three times our population. But their TEAMS and COACHES STINK! And THOSE states are BAR NONE, the top college and NFL producers in the country. I don't recall where Ohio ranks. But I'm fairly certain that it AINT ten the top ten. I believe that a souple of smaller states are near the top ten, that you wouldn't usually equate with that heavy of a talent pool, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, Maryland, and New Jersey. THAT'S talentwise:
The reason for those dynasties, is the presence of many schools that are mediocre. There are approx. forty to 50 schools in the GHSA, that are usually top tier most sasons. But t but even counties such as Gwinnett in metro Atlanta, only have about 6 or seven, out of 30, who are perennial powers. And most of THOSE, are because of loaded up teams. But due to coaching salaries, being less than you would think. Only Buford forges ahead with $150,000 salaries. While most schools in South Georgia, have coaching salaries for qual
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