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Can someone explain to me why Florida can’t do this? https://www.ghsa.net/2025-2026-ghsa-football-schedule

Have you found any more first year teams besides these? Geneva Cornerstone Classical Babcock Ranch Legacy Masters Academy Vero McLaughlin First Baptist Bunnell Victory Charter

Victory Charter School from Kissimmee has 5 teams on their schedule indicating they are playing 11 man this year

Wow and that’s the website the FHSAA uses for its rankings? What a crap show. Good luck finding the real schedules. The FHSAA doesn’t do anything to help. Georgia puts their on their website for all to see. A simple link that has every team and every schedule. One stop shop. The SSAA isn’t any better. I was trying to update scores from last year and they don’t even have the results from last year. Maxpreps and Scorestream aren’t even reliable either. Crazy that in 2024-25, you can find reputable sites for simple information like high school football schedules and scores

Biggest upset in Florida finals history. I would put Berkeley Prep over Norland second

I remember back in 1907 when Lakeland got hosed by Bartow. Score was 53-0 but it was closer to all of us in attendance that day. The forward pass was invented in 1906 and Lakeland was trying it for the first time. I think the refs thought they were cheating. Anyways. Top win in Bartow history

Agree. Everything could be avoided if they did what i said. Consolidate classes down to 4, and force teams who have a set number of transfers participate in an open division. Come up with a number. 5 transfers per year. Whatever number seems right. That way the all star transfer factories can duke it out for one title, and the other 4 playoff brackets will at least be a respectable. If they create the open division with 7-8 classes next year, every bracket is gonna be beyond embarrassing and make Florida the mockery of the country. You will have glorified 2nd round losers being called state champions

I think they are small schools. Marathon - about 700 (grades 6-12) Coral Shores - under 800 Key West - about 1,300

If you need a backup option On October 3, Coral Shores plays against Marathon in the “battle of the Keys”!!! Monroe County longest rivalry. https://keysweekly.com/42/sports-wrap-marathon-vs-coral-shores-historic-rivalry/

Looking at their schedule, the most competitive game at home looks to be against Jackson on October 24. University Christian the next week would be interesting.

Not so fast my friend. Niceville for the longest was the go to place for players. Kids weren’t going to Choctaw and they dang sure weren’t going to FWB. Don’t let the good ole boy mantra fool you. North FL has had some “magnet schools”. The talent just isn’t as good as the South. It’s not for the lack of trying.

Pace and Pensacola Catholic are the 2 top teams in the area. Also Niceville and Choctaw if you want to expand it a little. Those 4 would be the teams to rep the far West of the panhandle

So as an event you can’t beat the 3 games. But if you are talking one game, Chaminade/West Boca and IMG/First Academy would be better games. Based solely on projected state rankings in my opinion

Love it. My hope is it eventually grows to half the teams in the state. Approximately 250-300

I just look at it from a standpoint of not being able to grow if you don’t raise the difficulty level up a little bit. If it works then it works. I’m glad the SSAA exists. It creates a competitive advantage for every team in the state. We all know the D1 transfer factories will win something every year, but not all 600 teams in the state can sustain that. It’s good to have options for the rest which seems like it will keep young kids interested in high school football

Too bad this wasn’t a regular season event

I love the SSAA simply for creating a place for teams who have zero percent chance to win a championship in the FHSAA playoffs. But the amount of teams they allow in their own playoffs is kinda cringy. It waters down the competition that is already at the lowest for its level. I hope more teams from the FHSAA move over soon.

They lost their all everything QB. Did they get a good replacement or is the backup a stud?

No the same thing is gonna happen to them that happens to every other team. They are forced to face a recruited up all star transfer team full of 4 and 5 star guys at every position and lose by 35. Just as nature intended

Who is beating them? Dr P, Ely or Miramar?

Wow 10-0!!!!! Ely lost some dudes including their elite QB. And none of those other teams outside of MAYYYBBEEEE Miramar has a chance. Maybe Dr Pepper, but I think Dillard gets em. Overall this is not a great schedule, but the positive is Dillard will get a lot of guys valuable playing time, and the record going into the offseason of 10-2 or 11-1 will be attractive to studs who want to be apart of something on the cusp of taking the next step

Coach Cozart must have retired. Thats why I said “was/is” because I wasn’t sure if they were still a power.

But that would be punishing programs who are successful. For example. Brandon High is/was a national powerhouse for wrestling for decades. So if you have a kid in the Tampa area who is coming up in elementary and middle school and is a stud wrestler, it would a huge disservice of the parents to not at least try everything they can to get their kid to Brandon. That is the pathway to success. So why should Brandon be punished by having state championship aspirations stripped away because they laid a foundation of excellence in their craft? Brandon doesn’t need to recruit. Anyone who wrestles knows Brandon wrestling. So if studs are showing up at their door in droves, why should they have to turn them away and crush their dream? Or have to be punished, sentenced to expensive regional AAU-type competition?

If you go through ALLLLLLL that craziness travel and lose the typical high school experience with prom, homecoming, friends, girlfriends etc. Just to play a sport then doesn’t that kind of tell you how important that decision is to that kid and his parents? You are not going to do all of that for a hobby. This is something that they most likely are investing time, money and effort into hoping that it takes them to the next level and doing it locally minimizes that chance in their opinion

The Broward event was never during the preseason week. It always counted as week 1 games