Final 2022 Top 25 national high school football composite rankings

MaxPreps National Champion St. John Bosco ends season as No. 1 team in media poll.

By Staff Report

Dec 20, 2022, 12:45pm

Braves crowned MaxPreps National Champions for second time since 2019.

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The 2022 high school football season has now come to an end, and it's clear that St. John Bosco is the top-ranked team in the nation, according to every media outlet but one. The Braves were ranked No. 1 overall in six publications that rank high school football teams nationally. The Braves join 14 other teams that fell inside the Top 25 in all polls.

MaxPreps, CalPreps and High School Football America all released rankings that went beyond the Top 25 teams. Those three polls were used as tie-breakers in our final composite rankings.

To be considered for these rankings, a team had to be included in at least one of the Top 25 lists from the publications we looked at, which also included USA Today, BlueStar Media, NationalHSFB and SB Live.

St. John Bosco celebrates its CIF Open Division championship on Dec. 10. The Braves were named MaxPreps National Champions and also finished No. 1 in the Top 25 national high school football composite rankings. (Photo: Louis Lopez)

Final 2022 Top 25 composite high school football rankings

1. St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)

Average rank: 1.1
MaxPreps Top 25: 1
High School Football America: 1

CalPreps: 1

BlueStar: 1

SB Live: 1

USA Today: 1

NationalHSFB: 2

2. Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)

Average rank: 2.8
MaxPreps Top 25: 3
High School Football America: 4

CalPreps: 2

BlueStar: 3

SB Live: 2

USA Today: 3

NationalHSFB: 3

3. Central (Miami)

Average rank: 3.7
MaxPreps Top 25: 2
High School Football America: 2

CalPreps: 8

BlueStar: 5

SB Live: 4

USA Today: 4

NationalHSFB: 1

4. Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)

Average rank: 4.2
MaxPreps Top 25: 4
High School Football America: 5

CalPreps: 6

BlueStar: 6

SB Live: 3

USA Today: 2

NationalHSFB: 4

5. Duncanville (Texas)

Average rank: 6.2
MaxPreps Top 25: 7
High School Football America: 6

CalPreps: 4

BlueStar: 2

SB Live: 7

USA Today: 5

NationalHSFB: 13

6. IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.)

Average rank: 6.7
MaxPreps Top 25: 5
High School Football America: 8

CalPreps: 9

BlueStar: 8

SB Live: 5

USA Today: 7

NationalHSFB: 5

7. St. Frances Academy (Baltimore)

Average rank: 7.5
MaxPreps Top 25: 8
High School Football America: 7

CalPreps: 5

BlueStar: 11

SB Live: 6

USA Today: 10

NationalHSFB: 6

8. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)

Average rank: 8.4
MaxPreps Top 25: 6
High School Football America: 3

CalPreps: 19

BlueStar: 4

SB Live: 12

USA Today: 6

NationalHSFB: 9

9. North Shore (Houston)

Average rank: 9.8
MaxPreps Top 25: 9
High School Football America: 10

CalPreps: 12

BlueStar: 7

SB Live: 9

USA Today: 8

NationalHSFB: 14

10. Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood, Fla.)

Average rank: 11.3
MaxPreps Top 25: 10
High School Football America: 9

CalPreps: 21

BlueStar: 9

SB Live: 10

USA Today: 9

NationalHSFB: 7

11. Mill Creek (Hoschton, Ga.)

Average rank: 11.7
MaxPreps Top 25: 11
High School Football America: 16

CalPreps: 3

BlueStar: 18

SB Live: 8

USA Today: 16

NationalHSFB: 10

12. Langston Hughes (Fairburn, Ga.)

Average rank: 13.8
MaxPreps Top 25: 15
High School Football America: 14

CalPreps: 14

BlueStar: NR

SB Live: 16

USA Today: 13

NationalHSFB: 11

13. St. Edward (Lakewood, Ohio)

Average rank: 16.7
MaxPreps Top 25: 17
High School Football America: 12

CalPreps: 15

BlueStar: 14

SB Live: 21

USA Today: 18

NationalHSFB: 20

14. Lakeland (Fla.)

Average rank: 16.8
MaxPreps Top 25: 14
High School Football America: 18

CalPreps: 25

BlueStar: NR

SB Live: 15

USA Today: 12

NationalHSFB: NR

15. DeSoto (Texas)

Average rank: 17.2
MaxPreps Top 25: 21
High School Football America: 15

CalPreps: 13

BlueStar: 16

SB Live: 23

USA Today: 17

NationalHSFB: 16

16. Basha (Chandler, Ariz.)

Average rank: 17.4
MaxPreps Top 25: 18
High School Football America: 22

CalPreps: 10

BlueStar: 17

SB Live: 19

USA Today: 14

NationalHSFB: 22

17. Lipscomb Academy (Nashville, Tenn.)

Average rank: 18.5
MaxPreps Top 25: 13
High School Football America: 13

CalPreps: 56

BlueStar: 12

SB Live: 13

USA Today: 11

NationalHSFB: 12

18. Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.)

Average rank: 19.2
MaxPreps Top 25: 20
High School Football America: 21

CalPreps: 23

BlueStar: 15

SB Live: 14

USA Today: 21

NationalHSFB: 21

19. St. Joseph's Prep (Philadelphia)

Average rank: 20.5
MaxPreps Top 25: 19
High School Football America: 19

CalPreps: 28

BlueStar: 10

SB Live: NR

USA Today: 20

NationalHSFB: 18

20. Westlake (Austin, Texas)

Average rank: 21
MaxPreps Top 25: 16
High School Football America: 31

CalPreps: 30

BlueStar: 10

SB Live: 24

USA Today: 15

NationalHSFB: NR

21. American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.)

Average rank: 21.4
MaxPreps Top 25: 12
High School Football America: 11

CalPreps: 69

BlueStar: 20

SB Live: 11

USA Today: 19

NationalHSFB: 8

22. Guyer (Denton, Texas)

Average rank: 23.6
MaxPreps Top 25: 28
High School Football America: 24

CalPreps: 16

BlueStar: 24

SB Live: 25

USA Today: 25

NationalHSFB: NR

23. Columbus (Miami)

Average rank: 24.6
MaxPreps Top 25: 23
High School Football America: 20

CalPreps: 40

BlueStar: NR

SB Live: NR

USA Today: 23

NationalHSFB: 17

24. Kahuku (Hawaii)

Average rank: 26.5
MaxPreps Top 25: 25
High School Football America: 41

CalPreps: 20

BlueStar: NR

SB Live: 20

USA Today: NR

NationalHSFB: 15

25. Dutch Fork (Irmo, S.C.)

Average rank: 27.8
MaxPreps Top 25: 26
High School Football America: 17

CalPreps: 48

BlueStar: NR

SB Live: NR

USA Today: 24

NationalHSFB: 24

Appeared in at least one Top 25 poll: Carrollton (Ga.), Liberty (Peoria, Ariz.), Mission Viejo (Calif.), Saguaro (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Skyridge (Lehi, Utah), Lehi (Utah), Thompson (Alabaster, Ala.), Katy (Texas), Chicago Mt. Carmel (Chicago), Aledo (Texas), Vandegrift (Austin, Texas), Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah), Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Buford (Ga.), Central Catholic (Toledo, Ohio).

Final 2022 Top 25 national high school football composite rankings

MaxPreps National Champion St. John Bosco ends season as No. 1 team in media poll.

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