Last Updated: January 7, AM. Expanded Capsules for Top Teams. The Schedule Strength column ranks teams based on the average win percentage of their scheduled opponents.. Teams that …. Explore current events and the history of the association, its schools and its student-athletes. Schools Details: The high school football season in Tennessee kicks off next week and MaxPreps has your look at the state's top teams. Coming off a campaign last fall, Oakland owns the No.
Schools Details: 7. Montgomery Central 75 7. Marshall County 53 8. Upperman 38 South-Doyle 15 9. Others receiving 10 or more votes: none. Schools Details: Oakland, ranked No. Summit 3 4. Collierville 5 5. Subscribe to get sent a digest of new articles by State of Tennessee. Here are our staff's class rankings going into week two: Teams' previous rankings will be in parentheses 6A. Summit 4 4. Whitehaven 5 5. Schools Details: Oakland began the Tennessee high school football season as the Nashville area's top program.
The Patriots will finish the year No. The Tennessean has re-ranked all Nashville area high school. Schools Details: Here are our website class rankings going into week three: Every team's ranking from last week is listed in parentheses. Class 6A.
And the answer is now clear. The best high school football program in the state of Tennessee is Brentwood Academy. And Dobyns-Bennett. And Maryville. OK, so much for waffling, but when it comes down to picking the "best" program in the state of Tennessee, it's just too difficult to do.
Sure, in all reality, there are probably or so programs that could be eliminated from contention for one reason or another, but the point remains there are easily five to ten programs worthy of serious consideration for top billing - each with its own positive and negative attributes.
Let's take an alphabetical look at six programs that we have isolated as worthy candidates and this is certainly not a be-all, end-all list, but these six programs boast a list of accomplishments not easily rivaled by any other six programs in the state : Brentwood Academy. Detractors will point out the school's relative lack of success in Division II since 0 titles, but 6 championship game appearances , but the Eagles' accomplishments on the field prior to , which includes impressive wins over quality out-of-state competition, may serve the test of time.
A Division II football title would certainly serve the Brentwood Academy program well, and with Carlton Flatt - the state's all-time wins leader - at the helm, that elusive Division II title may come very soon. Forty-five years. That's how long it's been since the Indians captured its last state title in excluding a title claimed by the school , one of 13 titles the school claims. However, the school's recent lack of success in the state championship department by no means diminishes what Dobyns-Bennett has accomplished in 84 years of football.
Dobyns-Bennett remains the state's all-time wins leader with wins, and has a significant cushion over the field. With a prideful, well-supported program and what are still quality teams being produced on an annual basis, the Indian program rightfully can lay its claim as one of the Volunteer State's best.
The superlatives are endless for the Rebels. They have perhaps the most lucrative apparel contract of any high school in the nation — Nike outfits them at no charge to the school. The younger Grant won back-to-back titles twice and , then reeled off four straight state titles from to That stretch was brutal for opposing offenses with a pair of future NFL linebackers, Blake Cashman and Ryan Connelly, on the opposite side. Legendary head coach Tom Taraska guided Arrowhead High to the state championship game nine times in 29 seasons, winning four state titles.
University of Michigan junior offensive guard Ben Bredeson is in his third year as a starter and is already a two-time All-Big Ten selection. State championships: 10 , , , , , , , , The street where high school stands today is Roger Barta Way, named after its famous head coach, who was named national coach of the year in State championships: 16 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jaworski won nine state titles in that time, all while pumping out a steady stream of NFL players and retiring as the winningest coach in Nebraska history.
In , just hours after winning in the state semifinals, head coach Chris Nizzi was arrested for striking a year-old girl and fired the next day. State championships: 32 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Notable coaches: Doug Robertson , Jimmy Teague , present. Reidsville High head coach Jimmy Teague is on his second stint at Reidsville.
Teague put together a game winning streak from to and has produced two NFL players in his time there — electric wide receivers Na Brown and Jerome Simpson. State championships: 17 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , To put that in perspective, Smith is on his 10th presidency as coach, starting with the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
The two-sport star was committed to in-state Virginia before flipping to North Carolina at the last second. State championships: 14 , , Notable coaches: Tom Mach , Daniel Anderson present. Catholic Central High gets the nod for winning 10 state championships in the playoff era all under legendary coach Tom Mach and making it to the title game six more times in that span.
The unbeaten team featured a future American hero as its starting center — astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the second human being to ever step foot on the moon in How good is the talent being funneled into South Panola High? Three different coaches have won state titles. Even though South Panola won a national title in , it would be hard to take top billing away from the team as the greatest in school history. State championships: 25 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , He would have 26, but the title was stripped after John Curtis used an ineligible player.
Perhaps the greatest player in school history was the late Joe McKnight, a running back who led John Curtis to three consecutive state titles from to State championships: 25 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , WR Rondale Moore Since Louisville Trinity won its first state championship in , not a decade has gone by without adding another state title to the total with the longest gap being seven seasons.
So true state championships before then are hard to quantify. They either came from a general consensus, vote or rating system. Saguaro won its sixth straight state championship in , and that title might have been its most remarkable. Still, despite all of its recent glory, Saguaro won its first state title on the back of its greatest player of all time and one of the greatest college safeties ever — future NFL All-Pro Mike Brown.
Under former head coach Rick Streiff, the Fighting Irish won four state titles in the decade, but the state title kicked off a run of dominance unrivaled in state history. Cathedral won seven state titles from to , including five straight from to Joliet Catholic High owns the Illinois record with 14 state titles, but none were more surprising than the championship, which came after four regular-season losses.
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