While Miami Central’s drive for a high school football national championship game up a little short, the Rockets are still the No. 1 team in the High School Football America Florida Top 25 rankings, powered by NFL Play Football. The Class 2M champs, who finished No. 2 in the nation in the HSFA 300, lead a strong Florida contingent in our national rankings.
Related: Final 2022 HSFA 300 national rankings
Overall 42 teams from the Sunshine state finished in our Top 100. That’s the most of any state in the nation.
Florida No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas finished No. 3 in America.
Overall, six Florida teams finished in the High School Football America Top 25.
High School Football America Florida Top 25
| Ranking/Team | Record | Preseason Ranking |
| No. 1 Miami Central | (14-0) | 3 |
| No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas | (14-0) | 2 |
| No. 3 IMG Academy | (8-1) | 1 |
| No. 4 Chaminade-Madonna | (13-1) | 4 |
| No. 4 American Heritage (Plantation) | (12-2) | 6 |
| No. 5 Lakeland | (14-0) | 11 |
| No. 6 Columbus (Miami) | (14-1) | 13 |
| No. 7 Cardinal Gibbons | (11-2) | 8 |
| No. 8 Edgewater | (12-1) | 16 |
| No. 9 Venice | (9-4) | 5 |
| No. 10 Cocoa | (11-3) | 10 |
| No. 11 Northwestern (Miami) | (6-5) | 9 |
| No. 12 Jones (Orlando) | (11-3) | 12 |
| No. 13 Clearwater Academy International | (9-1) | NR |
| No. 14 Bartram Trail | (12-1) | 19 |
| No. 15 Osceola (Kissimmee) | (10-4) | NR |
| No. 16 Homestead | (11-3) | NR |
| No. 17 Seminole (Sanford) | (9-3) | 20 |
| No. 18 Apopka | (11-4) | 21 |
| No. 19 Buchholz | (10-3) | NR |
| No. 20 Lake Walves | (15-0) | NR |
| No. 21 Mainland | (11-4) | NR |
| No. 22 Tampa Bay Tech | (9-3)* | 13 |
| No. 23 Lake Mary | (8-4) | NR |
| No. 24 Lakewood | (9-5)* | NR |
| No. 25 Booker T. Washington (Miami) | (9-3) | NR |
*forfeit loss
Editor’s Note: The High School Football America national, regional and state rankings are developed using our proprietary algorithm.
