78 Florida High School Rivalries

[OldSchoolLion]

Which will be the best games this year?

INTRACOUNTY RIVALRIES

Alachua

Gainesville vs Buchholz    10/4/19

 

Brevard

Cocoa vs Rockledge(The BBQ Bowl)     11/1/19

Cocoa vs Astronaut      no game this year     

Cocoa vs Merritt Island-temporarily discontinued

Titusville vs Astronaut(Battle for the Hudson Trophy)     11/1/19

Eau Gallie vs Melbourne     11/1/19

Satellite vs Cocoa Beach(Beach Bowl)    9/27/19

 

Broward

Dillard vs Ely(Soul Bowl)     11/2/19

South Plantation vs Plantation(Mayor's Cup)     10/4/19

Fort Lauderdale vs Stranahan     11/1/19

St Thomas Aquinas vs Cardinal Gibbons-temporarily discontinued

 

Charlotte

Charlotte vs Port Charlotte     10/18/19

 

Collier

Naples vs Immokalee     10/25/19

Naples vs Lely(Coconut Bowl)     10/11/19

Naples vs Barron Collier(Cross Town Showdown)   9/27/19

 

Duval

Lee vs Jackson     no game this year

Raines vs Ribault(Northwest Classic Trophy)     10/12/19

 

Escambia

Escambia vs Pensacola High(Ye Olde Wash Boiler Tub)     11/1/19

Escambia vs Pine Forest     Escambia won 23-20

 

Hernando

Citrus vs Hernando         10/11/19

 

Highlands

Sebring vs Avon Park-temporarily discontinued      Sebring leads series 54-40-1

 

Hillsborough

Armwood vs Plant     AW won 38-3

Plant vs Hillsborough   no game this year

Plant vs Robinson    11/1/19

Tampa Catholic vs Jesuit     11/1/19

 

Indian River

Sebastian River vs Vero Beach     no game this year   

 

Lake

Leesburg vs Eustis     10/25/19

 

Lee

Fort Myers vs North Fort Myers(Battle of the Callosahatchee River)     FM won 48-3

Lehigh vs East Lee County(Beast of the East)    11/1/19

 

Leon

Godby vs Rickards    10/11/19

Lincoln vs Leon   10/10/19

 

Manatee

Manatee vs Southeast-temporarily discontinued

Manatee vs Palmetto   Palmetto won 18-12

 

Marion

Vanguard vs North Marion     Vanguard won 18-14

 

Martin County

Martin County vs South Fork (Martin Bowl)     South Fork won 20-7

 

Miami-Dade

Northwestern vs Jackson(Soul Bowl)     

Homestead vs South Dade     

Coral Gables vs Miami High     

Killian vs Palmetto (Cat Trophy)     Palmetto won 41-7

Killian vs Southridge     11/1/19

North Miami vs North Miami Beach     no game this year

Columbus vs Belen Jesuit     

 

Okaloosa

Fort Walton Beach vs Choctawhatchee(The Game)     

Niceville vs Crestview     

 

Osceola

Osceola vs St Cloud     State's 5th oldest rivalry.

 

Orange

Boone vs Edgewater(Battle for the Spirit Barrel)     

Jones vs Evans(Soul Bowl)     

Oviedo vs Hagerty(Mayor's Cup)     

Dr Phillips vs Olympia     

 

Palm Beach

Pahokee vs Glades Central(Muck Bowl)     11/2/19

Palm Beach Central vs Wellington(Wellington Cup)     

 

Pasco

Pasco vs Zephyrhills(The 9-Mile War)    11/1/19

 

Pinellas

Tarpon Springs vs East Lake     

Palm Harbor University vs East Lake      

 

Polk

Lakeland vs Kathleen     

Winter Haven vs Auburndale     

Winter Haven vs Lake Wales     

Bartow vs Lake Wales     

Fort Meade vs Frostproof     

 

St Johns

Nease vs Ponte Vedra(Battle for the Bridge)     

St Augustine vs Menendez     

 

St Lucie

Westwood vs Fort Pierce Central(The Showdown)     9/20/19

 

Santa Rosa

Gulf Breeze vs Navarre(Public Peach Bowl Cup)     Navarre won 28-21

Pace vs Milton(Bronze Helmet)     10/25/19

 

Seminole

Lake Brantley vs Lake Mary(Mayor's Cup)     Lake Mary won 42-0

 

Volusia

Mainland vs Seabreeze(Spike Welshinger Trophy)     10/25/19

 

INTERCOUNTY RIVALRIES

South FL:

Okeechobee vs Clewiston(Hendry)     

Okeechobee vs Martin County  

 

Central FL:

Seminole vs Deland(Volusia) "Battle of the Bridge"      

Hardee vs Desoto(Walter F Buck Carlton Trophy)    

Melbourne Central Catholic(Brevard) vs John Carroll(St Lucie)    11/1/19 

Vero Beach(Indian River) vs Fort Pierce Central(St Lucie)     

Cardinal Mooney(Sarasota) vs Bishop Verot(Lee)     

 

North FL:

Palatka(Putnam) vs St Augustine(St Johns)     

Columbia vs Suwannee(Oaken Bucket)     

Columbia vs Gainesville     

Santa Fe(Alachua) vs Fort White(Columbia) " Battle for the Paddle"  Santa Fe won 10-0

Blountstown(Calhoun) vs Port St Joe(Gulf)   

Jay vs Flomaton(Alabama)

 

 

[Tigers13]

Cocoa vs Merritt Island is a rivalry?

[OldSchoolLion]

20 minutes ago, Tigers13 said:

Cocoa vs Merritt Island is a rivalry?

see the thread below

 

[OldSchoolLion]

Next weekend...The Showdown...Fort Pierce Central vs Westwood...Central leads the series 21-18

 

[imjustafan2]

2 hours ago, Tigers13 said:

Cocoa vs Merritt Island is a rivalry?

It used to be big, at least in the 70s & 80s.

[HornetFan]

Oviedo and Hagerty are in Seminole County. Keonte Coffie of Oviedo was last year's Central Florida Player of the Year as a junior. This past week against Colonial HS, he rushed for 415 yards and 5 TD's.

[Trelle]

I wish Vero would play more Brevard teams good competition and in the past had good rivalries with Palm Bay and Merrit Island when they shared the same districts.

[Coach]

Around where I live people still turn out in droves for St. Cloud/Osceola even though the rivalry has been lopsided for years.

[Tigers13]

Cocoa vs Rockledge is a rivalry 

 

[KeemD321]

On 9/15/2019 at 8:15 PM, imjustafan2 said:

It used to be big, at least in the 70s & 80s.

Use to be big in the 90s and early 2000s too when they were in the same district along with Rockledge.

[KeemD321]

For Brevard the ones that are left out are: Viera v Rockledge

MCC v Holy Trinity

Bayside v Palm Bay

Palm Bay v Heritage

Bayside v Heritage

 

[DisabledAccount]

OSL

 

Interesting bringing up Fort White vs Santa Fe with the battle for the paddle

 

As a side note that rivalry was recently brought back after a hiatus but interesting enough the paddle was not on the line since the rivalry was brought back

 

 

[imjustafan2]

3 hours ago, KeemD321 said:

Use to be big in the 90s and early 2000s too when they were in the same district along with Rockledge.

They were in the same district then too. Classes only went to 4A. Cocoa was 4A some, during that era. Back then Palm Bay was the newest school in the county, to make up only 10 HS in the county. 

[Cat_Scratch]

On 9/15/2019 at 5:42 PM, Tigers13 said:

Cocoa vs Merritt Island is a rivalry?

It was before the split with Rockledge. 

It became to intense with students threats and after game fights so they called it off 5 years ago I believe.

[Cat_Scratch]

On 9/15/2019 at 9:13 PM, Trelle said:

I wish Vero would play more Brevard teams good competition and in the past had good rivalries with Palm Bay and Merrit Island when they shared the same districts.

Totally agree. Always a good game to see was the Vero - Palm Bay game. 

[Cat_Scratch]

10 hours ago, Tigers13 said:

Cocoa vs Rockledge is a rivalry 

 

Since 1971. 

[Tigers13]

Merritt Island opened in 1967???  Didn’t MI win like 26/27 out of 30 during the first years of the series.  That is not much of a rivalry 

 

[gatorman-uf]

20 hours ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

OSL

Interesting bringing up Fort White vs Santa Fe with the battle for the paddle

As a side note that rivalry was recently brought back after a hiatus but interesting enough the paddle was not on the line since the rivalry was brought back

How would the Paddle not be on the line if the two played a football game? I mean, I get if two teams don't play, but the very nature that they played in a regular season game automatically means the paddle is one the line. Otherwise what is the point of the trophy. Now, if you are saying they are retiring the paddle forever, so be it, but then the game is a just rivalry with no name. 

[DisabledAccount]

2 minutes ago, gatorman-uf said:

How would the Paddle not be on the line if the two played a football game? I mean, I get if two teams don't play, but the very nature that they played in a regular season game automatically means the paddle is one the line. Otherwise what is the point of the trophy. Now, if you are saying they are retiring the paddle forever, so be it, but then the game is a just rivalry with no name. 

Basically the paddle being on the line retired when the series was put on hiatus and when the rivalry was brought back the schools decided that the paddle wouldn't be used for the game anymore

[peezy28]

Pinellas 

Clearwater 14 Largo 21 5K in the stands and surrounding the field local neighborhood rivlary that basically decided the district

Lakewood 35 Boca Ciega 0... Bogie probably thought they had something having won 88-0 the week prior... No deal.

Also and for the same reasons I did not include Dunedin vs Clearwater, Clearwater vs  Countryside; CCC vs SPC; Lakewood vs Gibbs.... You can go ahead and remove East Lake vs Tarpon for  the forseeable future...  

[KeemD321]

13 hours ago, Cat_Scratch said:

It was before the split with Rockledge. 

It became to intense with students threats and after game fights so they called it off 5 years ago I believe.

I remember when Merritt Island spray painted Cocoa's baseball facilties black before a football game. It was funny because all Cocoa did was add orange and white stripining and an orange paw. Would've made more sense if the M.I. players would've painted it maize