City League: Toughest high school football cities in 2014 by region

We're only a  few weeks into the football season, but it's time to look at which cities are the toughest to play in around the country thus far.

We will update this as the season goes on. Each region has the top five cities and the 10 teams representing each city.

In order to break this down, we took the top 10 teams in each major city and surrounding areas, gathered up each team's rating based on the MaxPreps Computer Rankings and totaled them all together to get the city's overall ranking.

See the Top 15 toughest cities to play high school football in 2014

For the purposes of these rankings, the country was broken down into five regions:

West: California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Hawaii, Alaska, and Montana.

Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Midwest: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

South: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Northeast: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware and Vermont.


West

1. Los Angeles Area
Average rating: 71.32

St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)
Overall rating:  84.4
National rank:  5

Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Overall rating:  83.6
National rank:  6

Long Beach Poly (Calif.)
Overall rating:  70.9
National rank:  19

Servite (Anaheim, Calif.)
Overall rating:  70.3
National rank:  21

Chaminade (West Hills, Calif.)
Overall rating:  69.8
National rank: 25

Alemany (Mission Hills, Calif.)
Overall rating: 69.6
National rank: 27

JSerra Catholic (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Overall rating:  67.6
National rank: 31

Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.)
Overall rating: 65.8
National rank: 41

Bishop Amat (La Puente, Calif.)
Overall rating: 65.6
National rank: 42

Centennial (Corona, Calif.)
Overall rating: 65.6
National rank: 43

2. Sacramento Area
Average rating: 51.25

Folsom (Calif.)
Overall rating: 81.5
National rank: 8

Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills, Calif.)
Overall rating: 52.5
National rank: 196

Grant (Sacramento, Calif.)
Overall rating: 51.9
National rank: 212

Jesuit (Carmichael, Calif.)
Overall rating: 49.6
National rank: 277

Rocklin (Calif.)
Overall rating: 48.7
National rank: 304

Vacaville (Calif.)
Overall rating: 47.7
National rank: 332

Del Oro (Loomis, Calif.)
Overall rating: 47.3
National rank: 349

Sutter (Calif.)
Overall rating: 45.3
National rank: 423

Granite Bay (Calif.)
Overall rating: 45.2
National rank: 430

Elk Grove (Calif.)
Overall rating: 42.8
National rank: 430

3. Salt Lake City area
Average rating: 50.21

Bingham (South Jordan, Utah)
Overall Rating: 67
National Rank: 32

Timpview (Provo, Utah)
Overall Rating: 56.3
National Rank: 122

Jordan (Sandy, Utah)
Overall Rating: 54.7
National Rank: 151

Brighton (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Overall Rating: 53.5
National Rank: 179

Davis (Kaysville, Utah)
Overall Rating: 47.9
National Rank: 326

American Fork (Utah)
Overall Rating: 47.8
National Rank: 328

Woods Cross (Utah)
Overall Rating: 46.7
National Rank: 379

Herriman (West Herriman, Utah)
Overall Rating: 46.5
National Rank: 383

Pleasant Grove (Utah)
Overall Rating: 41.1
National Rank: 650

Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah)
Overall Rating: 40.6
National Rank: 679

4. Seattle area
Average rating: 50.17

Bellevue (Wash.)
Overall Rating: 69.6
National Rank: 28

Bothell (Wash.)
Overall Rating: 60.7
National Rank: 72

Lynden (Wash.)
Overall Rating: 52.4
National Rank: 197

Eastside Catholic (Sammamish, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 52.1
National Rank: 206

Skyline (Sammamish, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 50.7
National Rank: 250

O'Dea (Seattle, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 46
National Rank: 405

Marysville-Pilchuck (Marysville, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 45.4
National Rank: 417

Sedro-Woolley (Sedro-Woolley, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 44
National Rank: 492

Mount Si (Snoqualmie, Wash.)
Overall Rating: 41.4
National Rank: 647

Tumwater (Wash.)
Overall Rating: 39.7
National Rank: 744

5. San Diego area
Average Rating: 49.05

Oceanside (Calif.)
Overall Rating: 65
National Rank: 47

Helix (La Mesa, Calif.)
Overall Rating: 63.8
National Rank: 56

Cathedral Catholic (San Diego)
Overall Rating: 57.9
National Rank: 105

Mission Hills (San Marcos, Calif.)
Overall Rating: 49.3
National Rank: 290

El Capitan (Lakeside, Calif.)
Overall Rating: 47.7
National Rank: 333

St. Augustine (San Diego)
Overall Rating: 43.1
National Rank: 533

Ramona (Calif.)
Overall Rating: 42.4
National Rank: 574

La Costa Canyon (Carlsbad, Calif.)
Overall Rating: 42
National Rank: 596

Rancho Bernardo (San Diego)
Overall Rating: 40.2
National Rank: 710

Eastlake (Chula Vista, Calif.)
Overall Rating: 39.1
National Rank: 791