The Broward County National Football Showcase in Florida continues to explode with powerful high school football programs from around the nation. The lineup for the 3rd annual showcase was announced Tuesday with a dozen teams that finished 2023 in the High School Football America 300, powered by NFL Play Football.
Headlining the three-day event in South Florida is a matchup between Chaminade-Madonna (Florida) and St. John Bosco (California). C-M finished 2023 ranked No. 2 in our national rankings. SJB, winners of our 2019 and 2022 national championships, was ranked No. 3 last season.
Related: Final 2023 HSFA 300 rankings
Chaminade-Madonna enters 2024 having won three straight Florida high school football championships. The Lions have played in eight straight state title games, winning six overall state championships.
The Bosco/Chaminade-Madonna game will be one of two games played on Saturday, August 24 at St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
The other game at STA will be a battle between 2023 Georgia 7A champ Milton and powerful American Heritage from Plantation, Florida. Milton was ranked No. 18 in the HSFA 300. American Heritage was ranked No. 48 in ’23.
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While ESPN hasn’t released its games for its annual kickoff weekend, it’s highly-likely that both of these games will be broadcast nationally.
Friday night, St. Thomas Aquinas will host Nevada-power Bishop Gorman in a showdown between programs with a lot of championship hardware in their trophy cases.
STA, ranked No. 6 in the HSFA 300, set a Florida state record with its fifth straight state title last year. No other team has won that many in a row. The Raiders’ 15 overall state championships are the most in the Sunshine State.
Gorman has won 13 state titles in the last 14 years in the state’s largest classification. The Gaels, who won the 2016 High School Football America national championship in 2016, finished No. 5 nationally in ’23.
Below are the rest of the matchups with each team’s HSFA 300 ranking:
Broward County National Football Showcase Schedule
August 22 – Peachtree Ridge (Georgia) vs. No. 125 Monarch (Florida), 5 PM at Coconut Creek HS
August 22 – No. 244 Miami Northwestern (Florida) at No. 101 Coconut Creek (Florida), 8 PM at Coconut Creek HS
August 23 – No. 195 Lake Mary (Florida) at No. 118 Cardinal Gibbons (Florida), 7 PM at Cardinal Gibbons HS
August 23 – No. 5 Bishop Gorman (Nevada) at No. 6 St. Thomas Aquinas (Florida), TBD at St. Thomas Aquinas HS
August 24 – No. 2 Chaminade-Madonna (Florida) vs. No. 3 St. John Bosco (California), 8 PM at St. Thomas Aquinas HS
August 24 – No. 18 Milton (Georgia) vs. No. 48 American Heritage (Plantation, Florida), TBD at St. Thomas Aquinas HS
August 24 – Hoover (Alabama) at No. 96 Western (Davie, Florida), Noon at Western HS
At one point, every team in the Broward County High School National Showcase was ranked in the HSFA 300.
