No fooling: 10 Los Angeles high school football teams, 5 players on national radar

Video: Darnay Holmes - Ultimate Highlights
See the Calabasas 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 Los Angeles region we're giving serious consideration to. Let us know if we're missing any.

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


Calabasas

Centennial (Corona)

La Habra

Long Beach Poly

Loyola (Los Angeles)

Mater Dei (Santa Ana)

Mission Viejo

Narbonne (Harbor City)

Oaks Christian (Westlake Village)

St. John Bosco (Bellflower)

Vista Murrieta (Murrieta)

Final 2015 Southern Section football rankings

Final 2015 Los Angeles City Section football rankings


1. (No. 6 nationally) CB Darnay Holmes - Calabasas

2. (20) WR Joseph Lewis – Hawkins (Los Angeles)

3. (21) WR Tyjon Lindsey – Centennial (Corona)

4. (24) OT Wyatt Davis – St. John Bosco

5. (34) RB Stephen Carr – Summit (Fontana)