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High school football, also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both countries. It is the level of tackle football that is played before college football.
A varsity team is the highest level sports team regularly representing a high school. [1] Varsity teams compete against each other during a given athletic season. [2] In the United States, a varsity team is one step above a school's junior varsity (JV) team and composed of more experienced players. [3]
Map of FBS football programs as of 2024. This is a list of the 134 schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. [1] By definition, all schools in this grouping have varsity football teams.
The oldest of the rating systems, the National Sports News Service, was begun by Arthur H. "Art" Johlfs—who originally started naming champions informally in 1927 as a 21 year old high school coach and official, [2] but did so more formally starting in 1959 [3] after enlarging his network of supporting hobbyists [2] to receive reports from six separate areas of the country. [4]
In football, each region was further split into two divisions based on school enrollment, so statewide champions were determined in Divisions 1 through 6. Divisions 1 and 2 were for Group A with Division 2 being the one for schools with larger enrollments; 3 and 4, the Group AA schools; and 5 and 6, the Group AAA schools.
The Ohio State Club Football program joined the National Club Football Association in 2012 and has won three NCFA national championships, going back-to-back in 2019 and 2021 (no games played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and winning again in 2024. The Buckeyes are one of just two programs to repeat as national champions (Coppin State ...
The Varsity Cup tournament was founded in 2008, featuring the rugby teams of eight universities. Varsity Sports was expanded in 2012 to include other sporting codes. [3] University Sport South Africa discussed the Varsity Football proposal at its 2012 annual general meeting.
Varsity Stadium, the Varsity Blues' football stadium; Varsity match, a sports fixture played between traditional rival universities List of British and Irish varsity matches; Varsity (rowing regatta), a student rowing regatta in the Netherlands; Varsity Sports (South Africa), university sports league Varsity Rugby, South African rugby union ...