Saturday, St. Thomas Aquinas accomplished something no other Florida high school football team had ever done. The Raiders, ranked No. 6 in the High School Football America 300 national rankings, powered by NFL Play Football, won the school’s fifth straight Florida high school football championship with a 31-28 win over No. 40 Homestead in the Class 3M title game at Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee. It was a rematch of the 2022 championship.
STA had a 17-0 lead midway through the third quarter, but Homestead scored three touchdowns over a four-and-a-half minute span to make it a battle until the end.
St. Thomas Aquinas pulls ahead of five schools that won four straight titles — Miami Central, who won four straight titles twice (2019-22 and 2012-2015); North Florida Christian from 1998-2001; Trinity Christian from 2013-16; Miami Booker T. Washington from 2012-15, and Suwannee from 1987-1990.
STA now owns 15 Florida high school football titles, the most in the Sunshine State. Bolles has the second most with 11.
