Two-time defending state champ Bryant opens the season ranked No. 1 in the High School Football America Arkansas Top 10. The Hornets finished No. 24 in the High School Football America 100 national rankings.
Read: 2019 High School Football America 100
The Hornets open the 2020 season with its annual rivalry game against Benton, ranked No. 6 in our preseason statewide rankings, in the Salt Bowl at the University of Arkansas’s War Memorial Stadium. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s attendance will be capped at 12,000 for a game that always pushes about 30,000.
Benton has finished runner-up in Class 6A over the last two seasons.
Bryant vs. Benton is one of two head-to-head matchups in the Arkansas Top 10 to start the season. The other intra-Top 10 game features No. 7 Fayetteville taking-on No. 9 Conway.
Another big opener will take place in Oklahoma on national television where No. 4 Bentonville West takes-on Broken Arrow.
Read: GEICO ESPN High School Football Kickoff
High School Football America Arkansas Top 10
No. 1 Bryant
No. 2 North Little Rock
No. 3 Pulaski Academy
No. 4 Bentonville West
No. 5 Bentonville
No. 6 Benton
No. 7 Fayetteville
No. 8 Little Rock Christian
No. 9 Conway
No. 10 Cabot
Editor’s Note: The High School Football America national, regional and state rankings are developed using our proprietary algorithm.
