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Football power states California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas drop the curtain on the 2011 high school football season with their state championship weekends.
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State championships or title-game berths are up for grabs in each of this week's featured games.
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With a win Friday night, New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep would likely clinch its second national title in three years. Meanwhile, No. 3 Gaffney must get past perennial power Byrnes to claim its first state championship since 2006.
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Thanksgiving weekend offers a cornucopia of top-notch high school football action, mixing in long-standing rivalry games and with key post-season battles.
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It's only the second round, but already the Texas state playoffs are producing some gigantic matchups.
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There are crucial games from coast to coast and all points in between this week, with league and state championships up for grabs.
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The first football weekend of November features plenty of important regular season and playoff showdowns.
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Second-ranked Armwood must prove its mettle when it hosts unbeaten Plant; The regular season wraps up in Ohio with two of the state's top rivalry games.
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It's already state championship time in Alaska, where Service shoots for its second title in four years; In Virgina, Phoebus puts its nation-best 52-game winning streak on the line against unbeaten Woodside.
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Detroit Catholic Central and St. Mary Prep will duke it out on the final night of the regular season with a league championship on the line; In Southern California, Trinity League is just beginning as defending champ Servite hosts undefeated Orange Lutheran.
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The nation's top-ranked team will be tested when it takes on defending Ohio champion St. Edward; meanwhile, St. Thomas Aquinas hosts Miramar in a Top-25 showdown and the "Winnersville Classic" turns 50.
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So-Cal power No. 23 Servite heads into the desert to take on No. 11 Bishop Gorman, while top-ranked Don Bosco Prep puts its winning streak on the line against league rival Bergen Catholic.
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Two of the nation's premier prep football powers clash in South Florida and key conference battles are already taking place in Ohio.
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Top-ranked Don Bosco Prep (N.J.) and league rival Bergen Catholic head to Florida while No. 5 Trinity (Louisville, Ky.) could continue to climb the national rankings with a win at No. 16 St. Xavier (Cincinnati).
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Top-ranked Don Bosco Prep opens the season with a visitor from California while Oklahoma powers Jenks and Tulsa Union do battle again in the Backyard Bowl.
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This week's Top 10 Games features six matchups between teams from different states, including an Xcellent 25 season-opening showdown on the West Coast.
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Four of this week's Top 10 games will be nationally televised, including a pair of showdowns between Top 10 teams in the Xcellent 25 rankings.
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NFL stadiums host three key opening-weekend matchups, including an Xcellent 25 tilt.
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The final weekend of the season will decide state titles in four states along with the mythical national championship.
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State championships as well as title-game and state bowl game berths are on the line for several of the nation's heavyweight programs this weekend.
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It's a key weekend of post-season action for several nationally ranked teams, including top-ranked Trinity (Euless, Texas) and defending national champion Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, N.J.).
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Thanksgiving weekend kicks off with one of the nation's top rivalry games, followed by a full slate of key playoff battles.
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Playoff action is underway throughout the nation. In Texas, Euless Trinity, the nation's top-ranked squad, has a tough second-round test; Meanwhile, in Iowa, it's No. 1 versus No. 2 to decide the 4A title.
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The season will end this week for at least one of the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 teams; The second round of Ohio's rugged Division I playoffs features No. 15 Glenville slugging it out with No. 14 St. Edward.
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The regular season wraps up in Texas, where Lake Travis shoots for an eighth consecutive district title and No. 14 Katy looks to outmuscle rival Cinco Ranch in a battle of unbeatens.
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The regular season wraps up in several states this weekend, including Ohio, where bitter rivals Washington and McKinley do battle for the 120th time.
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Phoebus puts winning streak on the line against archrival Hampton; Can St. Edward go 3-0 versus the Cincinnati Greater Catholic League?
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Service will have revenge and a fifth Alaska state title on its mind when it meets Anchorage West; In Ohio, La Salle hopes dream season doesn't end at hands of Moeller.
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Valdosta looks to break losing streak to rival Lowndes and improve to 7-0; The Woodlands hosts Lufkin in a key district showdown in Texas.
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St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) hosts Camden County (Ga.) in a Top-25 interstate battle; No. 24 Hamilton could have its hands full with its rival from down the street.