The High School Football National Championship is a national championship honor awarded to the best high school football team in the United States based on USA Today and National Prep Poll rankings. There has been some effort over the years to organize a single-game playoff for the national championship. Sometimes a dominant party in one state defeats a dominant party in a neighboring state after a regular season and then self-asserts at a national Championship.
However, sometimes this national game can’t be scheduled, such as Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, after refusing to restrain its black players in a proposed game with the divided Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. Central High later announced itself as a national champion. On December 5, the DuPont Manual of Louisville, Kentucky, and New Britain played an original national championship in the Baton Rouge with the Louisiana Sports Association as the official sponsor – and, most importantly, the Sugar Bowl Committee, which organized the Sugar Bowl game itself.
Manual wins, 20-21. The following year, December 30, the game featured Pine Bluff, Arkansas, defeating Baton Rouge High School 2–1. The postseason game restrictions in some states proved difficult to organize in this series of games. Pine Bluff, for example, received a special exemption from its state to participate in the game. In 5, the National Sports Council chaired by columnist Grantland Rice staged a national championship game Christmas Night at the Orange Bowl, winning Miami High School in Florida, Garfield High School in Miami, New Jersey, and Garfield High School in New Jersey.
Unlike the LSA game, it had two unbeaten and undefeated teams from different sections of the country. In 1962, Florida State Champion Miami Senior High defeated the Baltimore Polytechnic in the Orange Bowl and was recognized as the National Champion of the California Imperial Sports Syndicate. Every State by State high school football games start times, Scoreboard and Results (Provide Live Scores for your High School).
High School Football Division Championship Scoreboard:
High School Football 2021 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Franklin (14-0) | Sun Prairie (13-1) | Brian Kaminski | 38-17 |
Waunakee (14-0) | Homestead (11-3) | Drake Zortman | 33-21 |
Pewaukee (12-2) | Rice Lake (11-3) | Dan Hill | 15-6 |
Catholic Memorial (14-0) | Ellsworth (12-1) | Rob Heller | 21-12 |
Aquinas (14-0) | Mayville (11-3) | Scott Hilber | 28-26 |
Colby (13-1) | St. Mary’s Springs (11-3) | Bob Hyland | 22-7 |
Reedsville (13-1) | Coleman (13-1) | Jeff Bronson | 17-0 |
High School Football 2020 Div. Championship
- No Championship (COVID-19 Pandemic)
High School Football 2019 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Muskego (14-0) | Bay Port (13-1) | Gary Westerman | 21-10 |
Brookfield East (12-2) | Waunakee (12-2) | Pat Rice | 31-30 |
DeForest (14-0) | Menasha (12-2) | Jeramie Korth | 8-7 |
Catholic Memorial (12-2) | Kiel (13-1) | Mike Dressler | 35-0 |
Lake Country Lutheran (13-1) | Stratford (13-1) | Jason Tubbs | 22-13 |
St. Mary’s Springs (12-2) | Regis (13-1) | Bryant Brenner | 7-0 |
Black Hawk/Warren (14-0) | Edgar (12-2) | Jerry Sinz | 6-0 |
High School Football 2018 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Muskego (14-0) | Kimberly (12-2) | Steve Jones | 24-21 |
Homestead (14-0) | Brookfield Central (12-2) | Jed Kennedy | 51-14 |
Catholic Memorial (13-1) | West De Pere (13-1) | Jack Batten | 37-24 |
Racine St. Catherine’s (14-0) | St. Croix Central (13-1) | Tony DiSalvo | 8-7 |
St. Mary’s Springs (14-0) | Stratford (11-3) | Jason Tubbs | 20-17 |
Iola-Scandinavia (14-0) | Racine Lutheran (11-3) | Scott Smith | 43-14 |
Black Hawk (13-0) | Edgar (13-1) | Jerry Sinz | 22-15 |
High School Football 2017 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Kimberly (14-0) | Sun Prairie (13-1) | Brian Kaminski | 27-7 |
Waunakee (14-0) | Brookfield Central (13-1) | Jed Kennedy | 14-13 |
Rice Lake (11-2) | New Berlin Eisenhower (13-1) | Matt Kern | 25-3 |
Lodi (14-0) | St. Croix Central (12-2) | Tony DiSalvo | 17-10 (OT) |
Amherst (13-1) | Lake Country Lutheran (13-1) | Greg Brazgel | 28-21 |
St. Mary’s Springs (14-0) | Iola-Scandinavia (11-3) | Scott Erickson | 35-12 |
Bangor (14-0) | Black Hawk (13-1) | Cory Milz | 37-14 |
High School Football 2016 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Kimberly (14-0) | Franklin (12-2) | Louis Brown | 29-14 |
Brookfield East (12-2) | Monona Grove (11-3) | Brandon Beckwith | 42-36 |
Catholic Memorial (14-0) | Notre Dame (12-2) | John Nowak | 24-14 |
St. Croix Central (11-3) | River Valley (10-3) | Tim Eastlick | 49-28 |
Amherst (13-1) | Cedar Grove-Belgium (12-2) | Dan Schreurs | 38-35 |
Regis (14-0) | Darlington (13-1) | Scott Zywicki | 27-14 |
Edgar (11-3) | Shullsburg (11-3) | Scott Matye | 36-6 |
High School Football 2015 Div. Championship
Champion | Runner-up | Location | Score |
Kimberly (14-0) | Arrowhead (12-2) | Greg Malling | 49-42 |
Homestead (12-2) | Waukesha West (11-3) | Steve Rux | 28-12 |
Notre Dame (12-2) | Catholic Memorial (11-3) | Bill Young | 19-17 |
Osceola (13-1) | Lodi (13-1) | Dave Puls | 28-0 |
Amherst (14-0) | Spencer/Columbus Catholic (13-1) | Jason Gorst | 42-0 |
St. Mary’s Springs (12-2) | Darlington (13-1) | Scott Zywicki | 39-20 |
Bangor (14-0) | Pepin/Alma (13-1) | Mike Olson | 20-14 |
*Beginning in 1982, all championship games were played in Madison at Camp Randall Stadium. Attendance listed is all games. 1976 to 2020 all championship games Score in pdf