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How about Atlantic crushing Glades Central in the Muck 49-3? ...or Booker T Washington dominating Columbus 34-11? ...or Bartram Trail upsetting Mandarin 32-7? ...or Dunnellon beating Vanguard 23-20? ...or Tampa Bay Tech stomping Plant 40-14?

Congratulations! Hard fought win by Columbia. Here in Orlando, Edgewater beat up Godby 48-7 while Apopka beat Ocoee 41-12. In my humble opinion, Edgewater is far and away the best team in Orlando. But their run will again likely stop at the state semifinals against Lakeland.

(2-1) Hillsborough at (4-0) Steinbrenner Steinbrenner has the 3rd highest scoring offense in the state and the longest active 8a win streak at 8 games. Hillsborough has plenty of speed and talent on both sides of the ball. Will be the first varsity meeting between the teams (Steinbrenner JV won by 1 score last year). Steinbrenner Coach Andres Perez began his coaching career at Hillsborough under Earl Garcia. Excepting a great football game.

Big difference between a public school in Baton Rouge(Zachary) and a private school in New Orleans(John Curtis). New Orleans metro area is over 1.5 times the size(population) of Baton Rouge. So, John Curtis has a substantially larger pool to pull from and the "private school advantage." Not taking away from DFB's win. But I would not get too excited about it just yet.

Well to be fair DFB already lost to a school in 4a this year (Carol City) So I don't think Zachary being a "smaller school" quite let's them off the hook for this, even as a smaller school Zachary is generally one of best LA has each year Just like John Curtis would be a 4a school in FL but many would favor John Curtis over most 8a schools in FL

Lakewood Ranch is 3-0 and Bartow 3-1, both went 0-10 last year.

Yeah it should be Definitely keep a eye on Gulliver Prep in that region, a lot of attention been on Carol City, Cardinal Gibbons and BTW but Gulliver has flown a bit under the radar while knocking off some solid large school programs They could be a dark horse to win that region if they get hot at right time

I watched the BTW game on NFHS. Columbus imploded and lost Xzavier Henderson to injury in the second half. BTW defense was great. They have a beefy Oline that can make some holes. The BTW qb was undersized, but completed some surprising passes...just enough to keep a good Columbus D off balance. 4A Region 4 will be a battle this year!

I think OSL was talking about high school games involving teams who might be playing in the state playoffs.

3-0 stranahan @ 4-0 dillard lol hahaha

They actually have a pretty good team most seasons. And some seasons they are a very tough team. The school is located at the extreme western edge of Marion County, on the way to Crystal River, which is the 2nd largest county in Florida to Dade.

North Marion 25 Hardee 13. Both teams have good defenses. North Marion was more disciplined and got out to and early lead quick. Penalties are what hurt Hardee more than anything.

Lake Minneola is an average Orlando area team. If Minneola gave VB trouble, VB is probably make another early playoff exit.

Like dam yall could have let us finished smh in all my life of supporting dillard i have never seen a team forfeit vs dillard oh Well 4-0 we go.

Exactly. Having pride 4 yo neighborhood and yo school was a thing back in the 90s you didnt team with the best u went & beat em.

Laz is legit and been doing this since before you were born LMAO... I am talking pen and pencil old. Oh and he is a cool ass dude too.

Nope just second half

This is exactly what high school football is supposed to be about; playing for your neighborhood school against another neighborhood's high school football team. It's not supposed to be about who can assemble the best all-star team by raiding programs and recruiting their best players. Rather than make a new conference for 30 or so schools that respect school boundaries, why not have the recruiting schools establish their own conference and leave the FHSAA state tournament to the traditional high school football programs? This way the kids would be playing each week against competition that they actually have a chance of beating, and the recruiting programs can play for the national ranking and play the IMGs and St Frances' of the football world.

I know a team in Tennessee that has 10/11 open but I feel they would beat Cocoa. Cocoa doesn’t do well North of Jacksonville or West of Pensacola. So I’ll pass for the time. If I find a team I feel they could compete with I’ll let them know

Miami-Dade County high school football has its very own version of “A League of their Own” this season. With county powers Northwestern, Central, Booker T. Washington and Columbus, to name a few, having taken over the landscape in terms of domination and stacking rosters with top talent on an annual basis, the likes of Reagan, Goleman Coral Park, Varela and other programs have been left in the dust. Rather than get discouraged, the “little guys” who weren’t so little in terms of school size, went out and did something about it. With Reagan coach John Lopez, assistant coach Jorge Rojas along with the GMAC leading the way, months of contacting other schools to get them on board, along with informing the FHSAA that they would not be participating in the state series when it came to football, eventually led to the berth of the Miami-Dade County Football Conference. All 12 schools will still continue to be very much a part of the GMAC, they simply will not participate in the FHSAA state football playoffs come November. “This gives us a chance to be competitive and to be honest a sense of fairness since the entire county has now kind of become an entire group of either ‘haves’ or ‘have-nots,’ ” said Lopez who is the only coach the Reagan program has ever known, starting it from scratch 12 years ago. “Speaking just for Reagan, being capped out enrollment-wise, we’ve always taken pride in just simply figuring out how to play with whatever comes in the doors. Obviously we weren’t the only ones with this problem. Other schools were in the same boat and that’s when we started to put together the idea of doing something like this.” A total of 12 programs joined up to form the conference that is split into two divisions of six, a south division and a north. Forming the south are Braddock, Coral Park, Sunset, Reagan, Varela and Ferguson. Goleman, Hialeah-Miami Lakes, Mourning, Krop, Hialeah Gardens and Westland Hialeah are in the north. Both out of the gate with 3-0 starts, Goleman and Krop would appear to be the two best teams in this group of a dozen. “Our kids are excited for it, our coaches are excited for it I’m excited for it and our school is excited for it,” said Goleman head coach Ariel Cribiero. “I’d like to think that teams and programs that do it the right way and build with their own kids that this is our way of rewarding those kids. We’re a magnet school, our kids are smart, going to Ivy League schools, not necessarily to play football. We want to give them a great experience and going to this independent league will give them that opportunity.” The set up will be relatively simple. Each team will play the other five in its own division and then four other games against teams from the opposite division for a total of nine games. The 10th game (including a bye week) will be played the final regular season week (Oct. 31-Nov. 2). “We will pair up the two sixth-place teams against each other, then the fifth place and so on up to third place,” Rojas said. “Whoever finishes first and second will qualify for our playoffs on that weekend as well. The two semifinals will be first place from one division playing second from the other division and vice versa.” The two semifinal winners will then meet in the championship game, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 9 at a neutral site, possibly Milander Stadium. “This new conference, it’s not going to be any different in that we’re going to come out with the same attitude every week play football the way we know how to play,” said Reagan senior quarterback Johnny Vega. “It’s a matter of knowing that we have to beat whoever is in front of us. But now we’ll shoot to win the championship in our conference and that’s going to be pretty cool.”