Nebraska's Top 10 high school football districts

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With Nebraska's high school football districts winding down regular season play, and the playoffs looming around the corner, we have decided to take a look at which districts, through their collective toughness, best prepared their members for the grind of the postseason.

Using the MaxPreps Nebraska Football Computer Rankings presented by the Army National Guard, we calculated the average rating for each district, and that calculation is the basis for this week's Top 10. Here we have listed the districts from 1-10 for 11-man schools and 1-5 for those programs playing 8-man football, since there are only 20 districts, collectively, in the two 8-man classifications.

It does make sense that any district featuring a top-ranked team would have the upper hand at weighing in as a Top 10 district, and it just so happens that all six No. 1 clubs are represented in this week's Top 10.

Three of Class B's top five football teams have been battling it out for supremacy in the B-3 district, and to date, defending Class B state champion Elkhorn South reigns supreme with one opponent remaining on its schedule. Class A No. 1 Omaha North resides in the A-4, the No. 7 district.

Bishop Neumann (C1-4), Battle Creek (C2-4), Perkins County (D1-10) and Humphrey St. Francis (D2-3) are the other top-ranked programs in our rankings that have guided their respective districts into Top 10 status.

Below, listed on the top line, is the district that is being ranked, its average MaxPreps computer ranking and the district's collective won-loss record. Listed on the second line is the MaxPreps ranking of each team competing in that district as well as the name of the school and that school's won-loss record in parenthesis.


1. Class B-3
30.550 25-7
No. 1 Elkhorn South (8-0), No. 3 Gretna (7-1), No. 5 Elkhorn (6-2), No. 26 Mount Michael Benedictine (4-4).

2. Class C2-4
19.600 33-15
No. 1 Battle Creek (7-1), No. 5 Hartington Cedar Catholic (7-1), No. 6 Crofton (6-2), No. 8 Lutheran High Northeast (5-3), No. 11 Stanton (5-3), No. 15 Ponca (3-5).

3. Class C1-4
18.760 26-13
No. 1 Bishop Neumann (8-0), No. 2 Aquinas Catholic (7-1), No. 4 Wahoo (7-1), No. 27 North Bend Central (3-4), No. 40 David City (1-7).

4. Class B-4
18.000 17-15
No. 7 Beatrice (7-1), No. 10 Norris (6-2), No. 21 Waverly (2-6), No. 13 Crete (2-6).

5. Class B-2
17.725 18-14
No. 2 Omaha Skutt Catholic (6-2), No. 14 Bennington (5-3), No. 19 Omaha Roncalli Catholic (4-4), No. 17 Ralston (3-5).

6. Class B-6
16.000 18-14
No. 8 Aurora (6-2), No. 9 York (6-2), No. 15 Grand Island Northwest (5-3), No. 27 Seward (1-7).

7. Class A-4
15.057 32-24
No. 1 Omaha North (8-0), No. 7 Lincoln Southeast (7-1), No. 9 Grand Island (6-2), No. 10 Lincoln East (4-4), No. 13 Lincoln Pius X (5-3), No. 21 Millard South (1-7), No. 23 Bellevue East (1-7).

8. Class C1-1
13.600 27-11
No. 5 Arlington (8-0), No. 9 Boys Town (6-2), No. 18 Omaha Concordia (5-2), No. 21 Fort Calhoun (4-4), No. 24 Douglas County West (4-3).

9. Class C1-6
12.850 24-24
No. 10 Ord (6-2), No. 8 Columbus Scotus (5-3), No. 13 Columbus Lakeview (5-3), No. 14 Boone Central Newman Grove (4-4), No. 26 Hastings Adams Central (3-5), No. 22 Grand Island Central Catholic (1-7).

10. Class A-1
12.000 32-24
No. 3 Bellevue West (8-0), No. 4 Omaha Burke (7-1), No. 12 Omaha Westside (5-3), No. 11 Norfolk (5-3), No. 16 Lincoln North Star (3-5), No. 18 Omaha Northwest (2-6), No. 25 Omaha South (2-6).


1. Class D1-5 29.540 19-17
No. 4 Palmer (8-0), No. 9 Nebraska Christian (3-4), No. 22 East Butler (3-4), No. 19 High Plains Community (3-4), No. 29 Nebraska Lutheran (2-5).

2. Class D1-4 23.820 19-17
No. 2 Neligh-Oakdale (7-0), No. 14 Howells-Dodge (5-2), No. 13 Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family (4-3), No. 33 Clarkson/Leigh (3-4), No. 43 Elgin Public/Elgin Pope John (0-8).

3. Class D1-7 19.667 22-20
No. 6 Chambers/Wheeler Central/Ewing (7-0), No. 8 Burwell (5-2), No. 18 West Holt (4-3), No. 40 Ainsworth (2-5), No. 32 Clearwater/Orchard (2-5), No. 35 Boyd County (2-5).

4. Class D2-3 19.500 22-14
No. 4 Osceola (7-1), No. 1 Humphrey St. Francis (6-1), No. 18 Fullerton (6-1), No. 47 Cedar Bluffs (2-5), No. 38 Scribner-Snyder (1-6).

5. Class D1-10 18.920 21-15
No. 1 Perkins County (7-0), No. 15 Dundy County-Stratton (5-2), No. 20 Hemingford (5-2), No. 34 Sutherland (3-5), No. 53 Morrill (1-6).