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August 7 - optional kick off classic games for SSAA, they don't count and are supposed to be SSAA team vs SSAA team. August 14 - Week 1 for SSAA.  SSAA members were told to schedule each other and so they count.  This is kickoff classic week for FHSAA and doesn't count for them.   August 21 going forward- Any SSAA vs FHSAA will count. Again, SSAA tells their members not to schedule FHSAA members until this week or later. This is how SSAA is able to move the schedule up a week and have 10 games.   

This conversation shows how retarded Florida high school football has become over the last two decades. It overcomplicated itself and it tried to fix something that wasn’t broken. The legislature just needs to create an official governing body that has control over every team that suits up for high school football specifically in the state. If you don’t belong to that organization, you don’t play football, which is a dangerous endeavor. It needs to be properly governed and 90+ percent of participants are minors.  I know I’m beating a dead horse. Large classes, separate public from private, open bowl at the end. It will run like a top.

I thought week 0 was week 1 for SSAA

Yeah Mark, You can see the confusion this causes. You and I discussed this at the beginning of June and it's still not 100% clear.  Anyway, until I'm told otherwise, I'm going with an SSAA opening week of Aug 14 and 10-game schedules with a bye week with the final regular season games the week of Oct 24. Post season play beginning the week of Oct 31.    

MaxPreps has started publishing its preseason rankings on its website.  These rankings will be especially critical this year as they will determine at-large playoff selection and seeding, as well as selection into the Open Division bracket at the end of the regular season.  For example, the top 8 now are STA, Carol City, AH-P, C-M, Central, WBR, Cardinal Mooney, and Lakeland.  That would make for an interesting set of games.  Since there will likely be some arguments over rankings as the season progresses, it might be helpful to understand their ranking process a little better.  This is the best explanation of the MaxPreps ranking process that I have seen:   http:// https://www.maxpreps.com/news/9dcOAHwkaEu7lGDog_eRtg/how-the-maxpreps-football-rankings-work.htm?open=1     Still doesn't tell me much, but it should be interesting to see how things work out this year.