No fooling: 10 South Florida football teams, 5 players on national radar

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See the Flanagan star in action.

Hey, it's April 1 and we all know what that means: Fourteen days until tax day? Yes. The day to pull a fast one? Absolutely.

But germane to this national football editor is that we are only a couple months away from selecting our preseason top 25 national football rankings. Here are our final ones from last season.

Here are 10 of the teams from the South Florida region we're giving serious consideration to. Let us know if we're missing any.



And below that are the top five South Florida region recruits from the Class of 2017, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Everything is in alphabetical order - and no, we aren't fooling.


Atlantic (Delray Beach)

Booker T. Washington (Miami)

Central (Miami)

American Heritage (Plantation)

Columbus (Miami)



Deerfield Beach

Flanagan (Pembroke Pines)

Hallandale

Northwestern (Miami)

St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale)

Final 2015 Florida state football rankings




1. (No. 11 nationally) WR Trevon Grimes — St. Thomas Aquinas

2. (23) OT Tedarrell Slaton jr. — American Heritage

3. (28) CB Stanford Samuels — Flanagan

4. (45) WR Jerry Jeudy — Deerfield Beach

5. (78) LB VanDarius Cowan — Palm Beach Gardens