The state-by-state look of the teams in the rankings are in no particular order ahead of the unveling of the Preseason HSFA 300 that is created using High School Football America’s proprietary algorithm that has been used for HSFA’s national rankings since the 2013 season.

As such, Florida is leading the way with 129 teams among the Top 1000 with many of these teams likely to be featured in the Top 300 preseason rankings.

Eight of the nine defending state champions made the cut while seven of the nine state runner-ups also made the cut for the Top 1000. In addition to those teams, 13 other teams that were state semifinalist last year are also a part of the Top 1000 teams in the rankings.

Here at the teams to make the cut in the Top 1000:

American Heritage (Plantation) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Apopka

Armwood (Seffner)

Atlantic (Delray Beach)

Auburndale

Bartram Trail (St. Johns)

Belen Jesuit (Miami)

Benjamin (Palm Beach Gardens)

Berkeley Prep (Tampa) – DEFENDING CLASS 2M STATE CHAMPION

Bishop Verot (Fort Myers)

Blanche Ely (Pompano Beach)

Boca Raton

Bolles (Jacksonville) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Booker (Sarasota) – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Buchholz (Gainesville) – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Calvary Christian (Clearwater)

Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale)

Cardinal Mooney (Sarasota) – DEFENDING CLASS 1S STATE CHAMPION

Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach)

Carrollwood Day (Tampa)

Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood) – DEFENDING CLASS 1M STATE CHAMPION

Chiles (Tallahassee)

Choctawhatchee (Fort Walton Beach)

Clearwater

Clearwater Central Catholic – CLASS 1M STATE RUNNER-UP

Cocoa – DEFENDING CLASS 2S STATE CHAMPION

Coconut Creek

Columbia (Lake City)

Columbus (Miami) – DEFENDING CLASS 4M STATE CHAMPION

Creekside (St. Johns)

DeLand – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Dillard (Fort Lauderdale)

Doral Academy

Dr. Phillips (Orlando)

Dunbar (Fort Myers) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Durant (Plant City)

East Bay (Gibsonton)

Edgewater (Orlando)

Ed White (Jacksonville)

Escambia (Pensacola)

Eau Gallie (Melbourne)

Fletcher (Neptune Beach)

Florida High (Tallahassee)

Gaither (Tampa) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Golden Gate (Naples)

Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest)

Heritage (Palm Bay)

Hillsborough (Tampa)

Homestead – CLASS 3M STATE RUNNER-UP

IMG Academy National (Bradenton)

Jesuit (Tampa)

Jones (Orlando) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Lake Gibson (Lakeland)

Lakeland – CLASS 4S STATE CHAMPION

Lake Minneola

Lake Wales

Lake Mary

Lakewood (St. Petersburg)

Largo

Leesburg

Lincoln (Tallahassee)

Madison County (Madison) – CLASS 1R STATE RUNNER-UP

Mainland (Daytona Beach) – DEFENDING CLASS 3S STATE CHAMPION

Manatee (Bradenton)

Mandarin (Jacksonville) – CLASS 4M STATE RUNNER-UP

Merritt Island

Miami Central

Miami Edison

Miami Killian

Miami Norland – CLASS 2M STATE RUNNER-UP

Miami Northwestern

Miami Palmetto

Miami Southridge

Mitchell (New Port Richey)

Miramar

Monarch (Coconut Creek) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Monsignor Pace (Miami)

Mosley (Lynn Haven)

Naples

Navarre

Nease (Ponte Vedra)

Niceville

North Miami Beach

Osceola (Kissimmee)

Oviedo

Pahokee

Palm Beach Central (Wellington)

Palm Beach Gardens

Palmetto

Pensacola Catholic – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Plant (Tampa) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Plantation

Plant City

Pine Forest (Pensacola)

Pinellas Park (Largo)

Ponte Vedra

Raines (Jacksonville)

Riverside (Jacksonville)

Riverview (Sarasota)

Rockledge

Sebring

Seminole (Sanford)

South Dade (Homestead)

South Sumter

South Walton (Santa Rosa Beach)

Spruce Creek (Port Orange)

St. Augustine – CLASS 3S STATE RUNNER-UP

St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) – DEFENDING CLASS 3M STATE CHAMPION

Stranahan (Fort Lauderdale)

Sumner (Riverview)

Tampa Bay Tech

Treasure Coast (Port St. Lucie)

Trinity Christian Academy (Jacksonville) – CLASS 1M STATE SEMIFINALIST

University (Orange City)

Vanguard (Ocala) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Venice – CLASS 4S STATE RUNNER-UP

Vero Beach

Viera

Wakulla (Crawfordville)

Wekiva (Apopka)

West Boca Raton

West Broward (Pembroke Pines)

West Orange (Winter Garden)

Western (Davie)

Wharton (Tampa)

Winter Park

Wiregrass Ranch (Wesley Chapel)

Zephyrhills

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As we go through the season, we will update you with the national ranking have to say about the Sunshine State, focusing on High School Football America’s 100 rankings as well as MaxPreps’ Top 25 rankings as well as any Top 100 rankings they produce through the season.

First with High School Football American which released its preseason rankings last month, it should be no shock that Florida is heavily represented on the list.

The stands outs among the Top 25 include defending Class 7A State Champion, Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas starting the season at No. 4 while defending 2020 National Champion Bradenton IMG Academy sits at No. 5.

Only two other teams from round out the initial Top 25 which includes defending Class 5A State Champion, Plantation American Heritage at No. 18, and Class 6A State Champion, Miami Central at No. 22. Miami Central will defend their state title as a Class 5A school this season as the Rockets dropped a class in the one-year classification cycle that was released back in March.

Teams inside the Top 50 include defending Class 4A State Champion Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons at No. 28 with Miami Northwestern at No. 32, who will now compete in Class 6A for this season after spending the last two years in Class 5A.

Jacksonville Trinity Christian who won the 2020 Class 3A State Championship, starts its title defense at No. 45 as a member in Class 2A, while the team they defeated, Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna, which remains in Class 3A, sits at No. 46.

Miami Columbus, who won the gold bracket of the Tri-County Championship last year after opting out of the FHSAA state series due to COVID-19, starts the 2021 season at No. 50.

The rest of the teams to crack the High School Football America 100 include defending Class 8A State Champion Sanford Seminole at No. 71, Orlando Jones at No. 73, Class 7A State Runner-up Orlando Edgewater at No. 86, Venice at No. 91, and Tampa Jesuit at No. 96.

High School Football America’s 100 rankings are derived from a proprietary formula developed by High School Football America’s founder, Jeff Fisher.

In the MaxPreps rankings, which were released at the end of June had some differences compared to High School Football America 100 rankings.

The rankings which are compiled by Zack Poff, National Football Editor for MaxPreps had IMG Academy ranked No. 2 to start the season while St. Thomas Aquinas was ranked No. 6.

Other Florida teams to crack MaxPreps’ Top 25 rankings includes Plantation American Heritage at No. 9, and Miami Central at No. 16.

Inside the Top 50 for MaxPreps features one team, Miami Northwestern at No. 36, while Cardinal Gibbons is just two spots away from cracking the Top 50 at No. 52.

Rounding out the Top 100 includes Jesuit at No. 47, Jones at No. 68, Sanford Seminole at No. 86, Columbus at No. 88, Jacksonville Trinity Christian at No. 90, and Pinecrest Gulliver Prep at No. 96.

Stay tuned here on FloridaHSFootball.com all season long as we keep track of the national rankings from these two great resources!

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Using High School Football America’s proprietary algorithm, the new rankings did not change much from the final Top 100 rankings in the fall where Bradenton IMG Academy was crowned mythical National Champions by High School Football America, it did allow a few teams from around the country to get ranked.

This all comes ahead of the planned High School Football America Top 100 Preseason rankings that are expected out later this month.

Those that made the cut from the Sunshine State in the final Top 100:

No. 1 Bradenton IMG Academy (8-0) – Mythical National Champions

No. 9 Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas (8-1) – Class 7A State Champions

No. 19 Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons (8-1) – Class 4A State Champions

No. 21 Plantation American Heritage (11-2) – Class 5A State Champions

No. 23 Jacksonville Trinity Christian (11-1) – Class 3A State Champions

No. 27 Miami Central (8-1) – Class 6A State Champions

No. 39 Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna (8-2) – Class 3A State Runner-up

No. 50 Miami Northwestern (3-2)

No. 65 Sanford Seminole (12-0) – Class 8A State Champions

No. 71 Orlando Jones (9-1)

No. 74 Orlando Edgewater (8-3) – Class 7A State Runner-up

No. 76 Valrico Bloomingdale (12-1)

No. 94 Niceville (11-1)

No. 95 Cocoa (10-1)

No. 96 Rockledge (7-2)

No. 100 Venice (9-4)

Also, worth noting that three other teams were just outside the Top 100 by being On the Bubble between No. 101 and No. 125. That included:

No. 101 Miami Columbus (7-0) – Tri-County 6A-8A Gold Champions

No. 117 Tampa Jesuit (13-1)

No. 119 St. Johns Bartram Trail (10-2)

To see the full list of High School Football America’s Final Top 100 rankings for the 2020-21 school year, click here.

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