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ESPN channels to air 6 high school football games during kickoff event

ESPN will air six high school football games, including matchups with top-10 teams Bishop Gorman, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Bosco and Chaminade-Madonna.

As prep football gets back into full swing, the Worldwide Leader in Sports will bring back its ESPN High School Football Kickoff for the 15th year.

From Aug. 16-25, ESPN will feature six games featuring 28 players ranked in its top 300 for the classes of 2025 and 2026. According to the press release, eleven of these players have committed to Div. I college football programs.

Related: Watch high school football live this season on the NFHS Network

Though it’s just the first week of the season for many teams, this event will showcase some of the best matchups of the season, including two games between top 10 teams: Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.) plays St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), and St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) goes up against Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood, Fla.).

Below is the full schedule and the channels on which the game will appear. All times are Eastern Time. The rankings align with the USA TODAY High Sports Super 25 preseason rankings, released earlier this week.

Friday, Aug. 16

No. 12 Carrollton (Ga.) at Woodward Academy (College Park, Ga).

Game time: 8 p.m.

Channel: ESPN2

Thursday, Aug. 22

Grayson (Loganville, Ga.) at Thompson (Alabaster, Ala.)

Game time: 8 p.m.

Channel: ESPN2

Friday, Aug. 23

No. 10 Milton (Ga.) vs. No. 16 American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.)

Game time: 7 p.m.

Channel: ESPN

Saturday, Aug. 24

No. 3 Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) at No. 8 St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)

Game time: 4 p.m.

Channel: ESPN

No. 5 St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) vs. No. 6 Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood, Fla.)

Game time: 8 p.m.

Channel: ESPN2

Sunday, Aug. 25

Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, (Ga.) at Baylor School (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Game time: 1 p.m.

Channel: ESPN

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USA TODAY Sports Super 25 Regional Football Watchlist: Southeast region

Keep an eye on these teams in the Southeast region…

The 2023 high school football season has arrived, with teams kicking off across the country in August.

That means the first USA TODAY Sports Super 25 is nearing, which marks another start to an iconic franchise that began back in 1982.

Last year’s Super 25 was one of the tightest races of all time, as St. John Bosco (Calif.) narrowly won out over Mater Dei (Calif.) and Bishop Gorman (Nev.), as well as Texas power Duncanville and Miami Central (Fla.).

How will things stack up this season? Ahead of the opening Super 25, USA TODAY HSS is looking around the country at the five regions we use to create the national rankings:

Next up is the Southeast region, which includes schools from the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

Ohio State offers 2024 Miami wide receiver already committed

The Buckeyes are looking to flip the Miami verbal #GoBucks

[autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] is very familiar with Florida high school powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas.

Former Buckeye brothers Joey and Nick Bosa prepped there, while a few others played there as well, so having Ohio State coaches in the building is a fairly common occurrence.

Although the Buckeye staff was on campus hosting recruits, that didn’t mean their eyes weren’t watching other prospects. Why do we know this? Well, late on Sunday night the Ohio State coaches offered 2024 wide receiver [autotag]Chance Robinson[/autotag] of STA.

The 6-foot, 2-inch, 190-pound Miami commit is ranked as the No. 23 player at his position and 151st overall prospect according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

Robinson is friends with current Buckeye commit Jeremiah Smith who seems to be commenting about the offer after sharing a childhood friend’s good news from Ohio State.

Smith has become one of the most vocal commitments of the 2024 group, even though he has made multiple official visits to places other than Columbus. It might be a coincidence, but it might not. What’s more important is that Ohio State has shown Robinson that he’s wanted in Scarlet and Gray.

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High School Football: ESPN announces doubleheader for Aug. 26

ESPN will be broadcasting a couple of major high school football games at the outset of the 2023 season.

ESPN will broadcast several prominent high school football games at the outset of the 2023 season.

Sportscenter NEXT shared the announcement today on their Twitter page – the two games will feature St. Frances (Md.) vs. Chaminade-Madonna (Fla.), followed by St. John Bosco (Calif.) vs. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.).

All the teams have been perennial USA TODAY Sport Super 25 teams.

St. Frances may be the best high school team on the east coast. Last season they posted a record of 9-1 and finished at No. 10 in our final Super 25 of 2022. Meanwhile, Chaminade-Madonna went 13-1 and finished one spot higher.

St. John Bosco spent most of the season in second place in national rankings, but a win over Mater Dei (Calif.) in November helped them climb the top of the pile. They ended the 2022-23 season with a 13-1 record and ranked first on the final Super 25 list. Meanwhile, St. Thomas Aquinas went undefeated at 14-0 and finished in the No. 6 spot.

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Super 25 football Week 6 recap: Mater Dei beats St. John Bosco in top showdown, Oakland stumbles

This past week Mater Dei defeated St. John Bosco to remain on top of the high school football world.

The top two teams in the country met up this past weekend. Mater Dei defeated St. John Bosco 17-7, remaining undefeated on the 2022 season and keeping their spot on top of the high school football world.

Elsewhere on the high end of the Super-25 rankings, Florida powers Central (Miami) and St. Thomas Aquinas won in-state matchups and Bishop Gorman blasted their opponents, 69-0.

Altogether it was another strong week for this teams, with the only loss coming for No. 22 ranked Oakland (Tenn.). Here are the scores for each team from Week 6.

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Florida high school football rankings: 6 teams appear in latest Super 25

Six schools from the state are in the latest USA TODAY Super 25 rankings.

Talent can be found all around the country if you know where to look, but the truth is that much of the elite football prospects are concentrated in a few places.

In Texas high school football is more of a religion than a hobby, and they usually have several of the best teams in the nation.

Florida is also a hotbed of high-quality recruits and teams, though. Six schools from the state are in the latest USA TODAY Super 25 rankings. Here’s who they are and where they rank compared to the competition.

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High school football schedule: How to watch the top 25 teams in action this week

Let’s see what’s next on tap for these teams.

This past week was a dominant one for many of the teams on our Super 25 list of the best schools in the country. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams (California’s Mater Dei and St. John Bosco) remained undefeated with dominant victories. Five other teams also notched shutout wins over their opponents.

Let’s see what’s next on tap for these teams.

Here are the opponents for each of the Super 25 schools in the nation this week, plus how to watch the games live.

Super 25 high school football matchups: 4 games to follow this week, plus how to watch

Here are four of this week’s biggest matchups.

Reigning national champion Mater Dei (Calif.) held off Bishop Gorman (N.V.) in a tight game this past Friday night, earning the top spot in our initial Super-25 rankings for the 2022 high school football season. Let’s see what’s on tap for this Friday.

Here are four of this week’s biggest matchups, with info on how to watch each game live.

High school football heavyweights to battle in 2022 ESPN GEICO Kickoff

The 2022 high school football season is starting with a bang with the 2022 ESPN GEICO Kickoff.

The 2022 high school football season is starting with a bang with the 2022 ESPN GEICO Kickoff.

ESPN announced its doozy of a Kickoff field on Tuesday, with a doubleheader of St. Joseph’s Prep (Pa.) vs. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) followed by Los Alamitos (Calif.) vs. American Heritage (Fla.) on Aug. 27.

St. Thomas Aquinas finished ninth in the 2021 USA TODAY High School Sports Super 25 rankings following a 14-1 season that resulted in a state championship. St. Joseph’s Prep returns a talented team in 2022, headlined by West Virginia linebacker commit Josiah Trotter.

American Heritage’s meeting with Los Alamitos might be the juiciest matchup of the Kickoff. Los Alamitos is led by five-star USC quarterback commit Malachi Nelson — the No. 2 recruit in the class of 2023 — and five-star athlete Makai Lemon, who is also committed to the Trojans. Los Alamitos also has four-star wide receiver DeAndre Moore Jr., three-star athlete Ethan O’Connor, three-star defensive end Sinn Brennan and three-star running back Nygel Osborne.

American Heritage welcomes a new head coach in Mike Smith after Patrick Surtain joined the Miami Dolphins’ coaching staff. Smith was previously the program’s strength and conditioning coach and takes over after a stretch that featured a 111-18 record since 2012 and state championships in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020.

There are also a pair of heavyweight matchups outside of the Kickoff during the first weekend of the 2022 season. Defending national champion Mater Dei (Calif.) travels to Las Vegas to take on Nevada 5A champion Bishop Gorman, while St. John Bosco heads to Texas for a date with Allen.

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