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High School Ranking the Best Football States

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    • Thought this could give us something else to talk about for a week...
    Overall state football rankings


    ESPN.com



    High school playoffs have ended, bowl season is in full swing, and the NFL playoff picture grows clearer by the game.
    In the midst of this football bonanza, we got to wondering: How do the states stack up across all levels of football?
    We asked our NFL, college and Scouts Inc. editors to rank the states and District of Columbia at each level, then combined those rankings for an overall number.
    The rankings you see below connect to a further description of each state. They aren't, however, the final word. We're interested in your description of football in your state. Did we get it right? Did we miss an important fact, player, coach or game that would alter the rankings?
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    Ohio is fifth. They include High School football, D1 college, and NFL. I thought it odd that D1AA (Youngstown St.), and D3 (Mt. Union) not included.

    Makes for an interesting debate.
     
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    1. Texas
    No. 4 pro | No. 1 college | No. 1 high school: The Lone Star State has 10 DI teams, six Heismans*, six national titles**, three AFL titles***, five Super Bowl wins and 24 NFL Hall of Famers****.


    Must suck to be the No. 1 college football state and know that there are individual teams out there with more heisman and national championship trophies than all 10 of your teams combined....
     
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    Even Charlie Weiss and the Touchdown Factory (they make 'em and they give 'em away) can't pull Indiana up to 19... and Hawaii is miles ahead of Kentucky. Someone must have slipped them points for having Mili around. Poor Alaska. I bet it's a bitch to get cable in your igloo and the Northern Lights and NORAD radar probably fuck with the dish signal.
     
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    Kind of ridiculous that the lower divisions in college football aren't included at all IMO. Then again, counting them would make Ohio the runaway winner and thus would make ESPN's little "poll" less interesting.
     
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    Free Rivals - Where is the best football played in 2010

    3. Ohio: Maintaining its position in the Top 3 may need to stop being a surprise and instead become the norm. Ohio has fewer teams than Texas or California but can certainly hang with the big three and does so for the second straight season. In fact, it may be more like Florida than Texas or California, not relying on volume, instead overall quality. The Division I state title will be the hardest state tournament to win in 2010, Divisions III, IV and V also have several very good teams. (LY: 3)
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    Something that always has amazed me, over 700 high schools field football teams in Ohio. If each team averages, say, 50 players, that 35,000 high school players each year.Most years only around 20 will get a Buckeye offer.
     
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