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Football

Seventeen of the Power 100 Lost, and Eleven of Them Lost to Teams That Are Not on the Board

Seventy-five wins, seventeen losses, eight idle, and seventeen shutouts in a week that mostly went to form

Max Fielder•Sep 13, 2026

SPIN results card reading STATEMENT over a photo of St. Thomas Aquinas players in white and gold, with the final score No. 12 St. Thomas Aquinas 38, No. 16 DeSoto 14.

Football

DeSoto Went to Florida for Its Opener. St. Thomas Aquinas Won by 24.

Our No. 12 handled our No. 16 in the Broward County Showcase, on the same Saturday Bishop Gorman lost in Florida.

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN results card reading MATER DEI WINS over a photo of a tackle in the open field, with the final score No. 8 Mater Dei 32, Orem 26.

Football

Orem Is a 5A School. It Had the Ball, Down Six, Against the No. 8 Team in America.

Mater Dei won 32-26. Eight days earlier it beat American Fork by 20. Utah's second-highest classification had a very good weekend.

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN results card reading UPSET over a photo of a Columbus player in a blue number 1 jersey, with the final score Columbus 33, No. 2 Bishop Gorman 28.

Football

Bishop Gorman Came to Florida for the Top Line. Columbus Led It by 18.

A'Mir Sears had three interceptions and two touchdowns, and Columbus was four minutes from a rout before the Gaels made it close.

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

Football

De La Salle and Centennial Are Two Places Apart. They Are Settling It at Cal.

No. 20 Centennial of Corona and No. 18 De La Salle meet Saturday afternoon at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, the closest ranked pairing on the SPIN Power 100 this week.

Max Fielder•Sep 24, 2026

Football

The Rotation, Week 7: Top Regional Matchups

Corner Canyon at Skyridge in Utah, Miami Central at Miami Northwestern in Florida, St. John's College at St. Edward in Ohio, and Del Oro at Oak Ridge in Northern California.

Max Fielder•Sep 24, 2026

Football

Thomas County Central and Lee County Are Both 4-0 and Three Places Apart. Last Year It Was 35-21.

No. 30 Thomas County Central goes to No. 27 Lee County on Friday night in Leesburg, Georgia, three places apart on the SPIN Power 100.

Max Fielder•Sep 24, 2026

Football

Gorman Is Third Out West Now. It Got There by Beating the Team That Was.

SPIN Out West Top 25, Week 6. Bishop Gorman moves up to third after winning at Mater Dei, Mater Dei falls three, Centennial of Peoria wins by 13 and falls ten, and Cherry Creek's record changed this week without a game being played.

Max Fielder•Sep 23, 2026

Football

NorCal Lost One Game All Week. Del Oro Climbed Four Without Beating Anyone on the Board.

SPIN NorCal Top 10, Week 6. De La Salle and Folsom hold, Central East moves to third, Serra slips to fourth on a week off, and Del Oro of Loomis jumps to sixth.

Sloane Carter•Sep 22, 2026

Football

Nothing Moved in Utah. Mountain Ridge Went to California and Scored 54 to Keep It That Way.

SPIN Utah Top 10, Week 6. Mountain Ridge won a 95 point game in Temecula. Corner Canyon beat Lone Peak. Ten holds on the board, and three Utah teams sit inside the national top 70.

Sloane Carter•Sep 22, 2026

Football

Liberty Lost in Chandler and Stayed Second. Centennial Won and Fell Two. Here Is Why Both Are Right.

SPIN Arizona Top 10, Week 6. Basha beat Liberty of Peoria 30-22, Chandler and Pinnacle move up, Brophy and ALA Gilbert North come on after beating board teams, and Centennial of Peoria drops to fifth at 4-0.

Sloane Carter•Sep 22, 2026

Football

Mater Dei Lost at Home and Fell One Spot. Bishop Amat Lost at Home and Fell Off.

SPIN SoCal Top 10, Week 6. St. John Bosco and Mater Dei swap places, JSerra comes on at eighth after beating Bishop Amat, and Santa Margarita is still 5-0 and still first.

Max Fielder•Sep 22, 2026

Football

Gorman Beat Mater Dei by 17. The Other Nine Spots in Nevada Just Got Reshuffled.

SPIN Nevada Top 10, Week 6. Bishop Gorman holds at No. 1 and climbs to 10th in the country. Mater Academy East, Liberty of Henderson and Coronado all move up. Legacy is new at eighth.

Max Fielder•Sep 22, 2026

SPIN Power 100 Week 6, ranks 1 to 10: St. Frances Academy, Santa Margarita, IMG Academy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Baylor School, Buford, Sierra Canyon, Allen, Columbus of Miami, Bishop Gorman. High school football rankings, September 21, 2026.

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Gorman Went to Santa Ana and Won by 17. Mater Dei Fell Nine.

SPIN Power 100, Week 6. Baylor School moves to fifth, North Crowley to 13th, and Duncanville drops to the last line on the board.

Max Fielder•Sep 22, 2026

SPIN SoCal Top 10 Scoreboard for Week 6, tangerine, listing all ten ranked Southern California teams with their Week 6 results.

Football

Three SoCal Teams Lost in Week 6. Only One Lost to Somebody on This Board.

Nine SoCal board teams played in Week 6 and six won. Mater Dei lost to Bishop Gorman, Bishop Amat lost to JSerra, and the only loss from inside the ten was Sierra Canyon beating Orange Lutheran.

Sloane Carter•Sep 20, 2026

SPIN NorCal Top 10 Scoreboard for Week 6, listing all ten ranked Northern California teams with their Week 6 results.

Football

NorCal Lost One Game All Week, and It Was to Southern California

Eight NorCal board teams played in Week 6 and seven won. The only loss was Pittsburg falling 42-35 to Mission Viejo, which sits seventh on our SoCal board.

Max Fielder•Sep 20, 2026

SPIN Arizona Top 10 Scoreboard for Week 6, listing all ten ranked Arizona teams with their Week 6 results.

Football

Three Arizona Board Teams Lost by Exactly Three Points. None of the Winners Are Ranked.

All ten Arizona board teams played in Week 6 and six won. One loss was Basha beating Liberty of Peoria. The other three were three point losses to teams outside our top ten.

Sloane Carter•Sep 20, 2026

SPIN Nevada Top 10 Scoreboard for Week 6, listing all ten ranked Nevada teams with their Week 6 results.

Football

Bishop Gorman Won in Santa Ana. Damonte Ranch Lost by a Point in Escalon.

Nine Nevada board teams played in Week 6 and six won. Two of the three losses came from inside the board, and the third was a one point road loss in California.

Max Fielder•Sep 20, 2026

SPIN Utah Top 10 Scoreboard for Week 6, alpine blue, listing all ten ranked Utah teams with their Week 6 results.

Football

Utah's Only Two Losses Came From Inside Our Own Top 10

Nine of the ten Utah board teams played in Week 6 and seven won. Lone Peak lost to Corner Canyon and Davis lost to American Fork, and nothing from outside the board touched it.

Sloane Carter•Sep 20, 2026

SPIN Power 100 rankings card showing teams 11 through 25 with records and weekly movement, beside a North Shore player in a red uniform

Football

How the SPIN Power 100 Fared: Week 6

Every ranked team, every result. 80 wins, 14 losses, six byes, and a 42-game streak in the ground.

Max Fielder•Sep 20, 2026

Football

Two Unbeaten Ohio Teams, Nine Places Apart, and Neither One Is Playing at Home

No. 31 Washington of Massillon at No. 40 St. Edward is at a college stadium in Berea, which is the detail most previews of this game will get wrong.

Sloane Carter•Sep 17, 2026

Football

Orange Lutheran Beat the Team That Just Fell Off Our Board. Now It Gets Our Eighth.

No. 33 Orange Lutheran at No. 8 Sierra Canyon is SoCal 6 against SoCal 2, and the visitor has already been within a point of a top thirty team this season.

Max Fielder•Sep 17, 2026

Football

NorCal's Game of the Week Is Being Played in Orange County

Pittsburg at No. 43 Mission Viejo puts our fifth ranked NorCal team on the road against a Southern California side that just moved up eleven places.

Sloane Carter•Sep 17, 2026

Football

Both of These Teams Are Unbeaten. Sixty Five Places Separate Them.

No. 3 IMG Academy at No. 68 The First Academy is the Florida Game of the Week, and the team with the extra win is the one ranked lower.

Max Fielder•Sep 17, 2026

SPIN Media Out West Game of the Week graphic for Cherry Creek of Greenwood Village at Valor Christian of Highlands Ranch, Colorado high school football, Friday September 18 2026, with Cherry Creek at No. 39 on the SPIN Power 100.

Football

Colorado Gets a SPIN Franchise Card for the First Time, and It Picked a Good Week

No. 39 Cherry Creek at Valor Christian is the biggest game in the state, and the visitor has not lost to a Colorado school in almost three years.

Sloane Carter•Sep 17, 2026

Football

Gorman Is Still Looking for Its First Win in This Series. It Has Never Been This Close.

No. 12 Bishop Gorman at No. 10 Mater Dei, Friday night in Santa Ana, is the tightest pairing on our board this week and the one game that can move our top ten.

Max Fielder•Sep 17, 2026

SPIN Out West Top 25 cover for Week 5, showing the full twenty five team board and plates for the eight states in the footprint.

Football

The Out West Board Goes to Twenty Five, and Two of the New Teams Have Played Two Games

Colorado, Oregon and Washington come into the footprint. Eight states, eleven new teams, and a calendar that explains the records better than the records do.

Max Fielder•Sep 15, 2026

SPIN Regional Roundup cover for Week 5, showing the Utah, Nevada and NorCal Top 10 boards and plates for all six SPIN regions.

Football

Half of These Fifty Teams Have Not Lost, and Fourteen of Them Are Ranked Behind Somebody Who Has

The Week 5 SPIN regional boards. Utah's top team is 4-1 with four unbeaten behind it, three of Southern California's unbeaten sit eighth, ninth and tenth, and Nevada's 5-0 team is second.

Max Fielder•Sep 15, 2026

SPIN Power 100 card for Week 5, ranks one through ten, St. Frances Academy first and Mater Dei tenth.

Football

Five of the Six Teams We Put On the Board Beat Somebody Already On It

The top six did not move a place, six teams came off, and five of the six that replaced them got there by beating a ranked team.

Max Fielder•Sep 14, 2026

SPIN SoCal Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5 listing all ten ranked Southern California teams with their Week 5 results, Santa Margarita first at 4-0.

Football

How the SoCal Top 10 Fared, Week 5

Eight wins, one loss by a single point, and the No. 1 team has not played yet

Sloane Carter•Sep 13, 2026

SPIN NorCal Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5, gold, listing all ten ranked Northern California teams with their Week 5 results.

Football

How the NorCal Top 10 Fared, Week 5

Nine wins, and the one loss was a shutout by a team that is not on the board

Max Fielder•Sep 13, 2026

SPIN Arizona Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5, desert violet, listing all ten ranked Arizona teams with their Week 5 results.

Football

How the Arizona Top 10 Fared, Week 5

All ten played, two lost, and both defeats came against another team on this board

Sloane Carter•Sep 13, 2026

SPIN Nevada Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5, scarlet on black, listing all ten ranked Nevada teams with their Week 5 results.

Football

How the Nevada Top 10 Fared, Week 5

Three byes at the top, four Thursday games in Clark County, and one loss to a Utah school

Max Fielder•Sep 13, 2026

SPIN Utah Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5, alpine blue, listing all ten ranked Utah teams with their Week 5 results.

Football

How the Utah Top 10 Fared, Week 5

Nine wins, one loss, and the only defeat came from inside the board

Sloane Carter•Sep 13, 2026

Football

Nobody Beat a Southern California Team This Week Except Another One

Nine board teams played, eight won, and the one that lost lost by a point to the team ranked below it.

Sloane Carter•Sep 12, 2026

Football

Riordan Got Shut Out by a Team It Beat to the Board

Cardinal Newman 31, Archbishop Riordan 0, and it is the only Northern California board team that lost.

Max Fielder•Sep 12, 2026

Football

All Ten Arizona Teams Played, Two Lost, and Both Lost Inside the Family

Pinnacle beat Basha by 33, and every Arizona loss this week came against another Arizona board team.

Sloane Carter•Sep 12, 2026

Football

Three of Nevada's Top Five Did Not Play, and the One That Did Lost at Home to Utah

A bye week at the top, a Thursday slate in Las Vegas, and Faith Lutheran giving up 54.

Max Fielder•Sep 12, 2026

Football

Eight Utah Games, Eight Blowouts, and Twenty-One Points Between All Eight Losers

Five shutouts. The other three losers scored exactly seven. Nobody in this state was tested on Friday.

Sloane Carter•Sep 12, 2026

Football

Basha Lost by 33 to a Team That Is Not Ranked Anywhere

Plenty of ranked teams lost this week. One of them lost like this.

Max Fielder•Sep 12, 2026

SPIN Cycle Friday Edition header: the words THE SPIN CYCLE in chrome capitals on a dark textured ground with a crimson glow, a red FRIDAY EDITION tag and the date September 11 2026 below them, the white SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at top right, and a bottom strip carrying three scorelines, Buford 18 Miami Central 7, Desert Mountain 65 Mountain View 0, and West Boca Raton 24 Cardinal Newman 7.

Football

The SPIN Cycle: Buford Needed a Third Quarter, Waxahachie Scored Twice Without the Ball, and Cardinal Newman's County Streak Died in the Mud

Friday Edition. Eleven games, three of them ranked against ranked, and a 65-0 in Tucson.

Max Fielder•Sep 11, 2026

SPIN Mega Matchup graphic for Baylor School at Trinity, showing a Trinity player in a white helmet and a Baylor player in a red helmet against the Louisville skyline.

Football

The Best Running Back in America Goes to Louisville, and Trinity Sold the Building Out to See It

David Gabriel Georges has 445 rushing yards in three games. Trinity has three straight state titles and one four-star. Friday is the collision.

Sloane Carter•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN Texas Game of the Week graphic for Allen at Southlake Carroll, showing a Carroll player in a white helmet and an Allen player in a navy helmet against a sunset skyline.

Football

Southlake Carroll Has Played Two Games and Been Two Different Teams. Allen Finds Out Which One Friday.

The Dragons came back from 27-0 down to beat Jenks. Eight days later they lost by 30. Allen has beaten Duncanville and DeSoto by a combined 63.

Max Fielder•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN Out West Game of the Week graphic for Centennial of Corona at Mater Dei, showing a Mater Dei player in a red helmet and a Centennial player in a black helmet.

Football

Centennial Beat Mater Dei Twice Last Year. One of Those Ended the Monarchs' Season.

A blocked field goal in the semifinals, a SPIN All-American who also kicks, a four-year starter on the Mater Dei line, and a Monarchs team playing three quarterbacks.

Max Fielder•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN Mega Matchup graphic for Waxahachie at Denton Guyer, showing a Guyer player in a silver helmet and a Waxahachie player in a white helmet against the Dallas skyline.

Football

Guyer Says It Has the Best Defensive Line in the Country. Waxahachie Has the No. 2 Safety in America.

Two 11-win teams that lost regional finals on the same December afternoon, both unbeaten, both in the Texas top five, meeting for the first time in 16 years.

Sloane Carter•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN Mega Matchup graphic for Cardinal Newman at West Boca Raton, showing a West Boca player and a Cardinal Newman player in gold helmets.

Football

Two State Champions, Fifteen Minutes Apart, and a Streak That Turns Five Years Old Tonight

Cardinal Newman has not lost to a Palm Beach County team since September 10, 2021. West Boca has allowed seven points all season and has a four-star headed to Georgia Tech.

Sloane Carter•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN National Game of the Week graphic for Miami Central at Buford, showing a Buford player in a gold helmet and a Miami Central player in a teal helmet.

Football

Buford Scored Four Touchdowns Without the Ball. Miami Central Has a Quarterback With 7,700 Career Yards.

The defending Georgia champion has won 17 straight. The Rockets have already gone to California and won a game their quarterback took over himself.

Max Fielder•Sep 10, 2026

SPIN Out West Top 15 card for Week 4, ranking Santa Margarita, Sierra Canyon, Centennial of Corona, Bishop Gorman, Mater Dei, St. John Bosco, Hamilton, Liberty of Peoria, De La Salle, Folsom, Corner Canyon, Orange Lutheran, Basha, Centennial of Peoria and Mililani.

Football

Arizona Has Four of the Fifteen, and Utah Held On by One Spot

The Out West list expanded this week. Six teams are new to it, Northern California and Hawaii are on it for the first time, and Mission Viejo is the only name that left

Sloane Carter•Sep 9, 2026

SPIN NorCal Top 10 title card for Week 4.

Football

Northern California Has Two Teams in the National Top 30 for the First Time

De La Salle and Folsom carry it. Underneath them the board turned over three places, and one of them came from Fresno

Sloane Carter•Sep 7, 2026

SPIN SoCal Top 10 title card for Week 4.

Football

Five of the Top Six in Southern California Are Top 14 in the Country

The top of this board barely moved. Everything interesting happened from sixth down

Sloane Carter•Sep 7, 2026

SPIN Arizona Top 10 title card for Week 4.

Football

Arizona Changed Hands, and Four Teams Beat Ranked Opposition in One Night

Basha loses the top line it has held since the preseason. Hamilton takes it on a shutout

Sloane Carter•Sep 7, 2026

SPIN Nevada Top 10 title card for Week 4.

Football

Two New Names From the North, and Bishop Gorman Is Still Alone

Damonte Ranch and Coronado are in. Nevada still has exactly one team on the national board

Sloane Carter•Sep 7, 2026

Football

Nobody Moved in Utah, and Eight of the Ten Won

The editor held all ten places. The board underneath the hold is doing more than the chips suggest

Sloane Carter•Sep 7, 2026

SPIN Power 100 card showing the Week 4 top ten: St. Frances Academy, Santa Margarita, IMG Academy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Buford, Baylor School, Columbus, Sierra Canyon, Allen and Centennial of Corona.

Football

Aquinas Beat Columbus and Still Isn't Our No. 1

The SPIN Power 100 goes to a hundred names for the first time, and fourth place is not an insult

Max Fielder•Sep 7, 2026

Football

How the Nevada Top 10 Fared

Gorman is 3-1 and still the only argument. Churchill County is 4-0 and the only four-win team on the board. All four losses came against teams from somewhere else.

Max Fielder•Sep 6, 2026

SPIN Media graphic, How the SPIN Top 50 Fared for Week 4 of the 2026 season, ranks one through ten with each team's result.

Football

How the SPIN Top 50 Fared, Week 4

Two of the top six played each other and one of them had to lose. Liberty of Peoria beat the No. 14 team in the country. Duncanville got its season back.

Max Fielder•Sep 6, 2026

Football

How the NorCal Top 10 Fared

If you are a NorCal fan, the top of this board could not have gone better. Four and five played a real game, and six took St. John Bosco to the fourth quarter.

Max Fielder•Sep 5, 2026

Football

How the SoCal Top 10 Fared

The Trinity League is still the standard and the top of this board is elite. What we do not know yet is how good Bosco and Mater Dei actually are.

Max Fielder•Sep 5, 2026

Football

How the Arizona Top 10 Fared

Basha lost in Costa Mesa. Then the rest of the top five went out and beat a ranked team apiece, and the state came out of the weekend ahead.

Max Fielder•Sep 5, 2026

Football

How the Utah Top 10 Fared

Corner Canyon controlled about eighty percent of that game and lost it anyway. That is what the road does, and it is what an offense with a question mark does.

Max Fielder•Sep 5, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Upset, final score Liberty 38, Corner Canyon 24, with both school marks and each team's national ranking.

Football

We Said a Liberty Win Would Reorder How We Read Arizona. Liberty Won.

Corner Canyon led 24-14 in Peoria and did not score again. Liberty of Peoria scored the last 24 points of the night and beat Utah's No. 1 38-24. We made a promise about this game in August. It is now due.

Max Fielder•Sep 5, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Upset, final score Orange Lutheran 23, Basha 17, with both school marks and Basha's national ranking.

Football

Arizona's Best Team Lost in Costa Mesa. Its Fourth-Best Was Beating a Top-15 Program at the Same Time.

Orange Lutheran beat Basha 23-17 on Friday night. On the same Friday, Liberty of Peoria beat Corner Canyon 38-24. Arizona spent one evening being reordered from both ends.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Revenge, final score Folsom 35, Mission Viejo 21, with both school marks and each team's national ranking.

Football

Folsom Waited a Year and Twenty-One Points to Say That Back

Mission Viejo beat Folsom 53-14 in Orange County last September, the worst defeat the Bulldogs had taken since 2006. On Friday night in Folsom, without their leading receiver, the Bulldogs won 35-21.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Bosco Wins, final score St. John Bosco 26, Pittsburg 14, with both school marks over a San Francisco Bay skyline.

Football

We Said We Would Be Surprised If This One Was Close. Pittsburg Led at Halftime.

St. John Bosco beat Pittsburg 26-14 in the East Bay on Friday night. The Braves turned it over twice early, trailed 14-13 at the break, and then did not let Pittsburg score again.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Locked Down, final score Bishop Gorman 38, Lone Peak 14, with a Bishop Gorman defensive back in front of a Las Vegas skyline.

Football

A Sophomore Corner Ended Lone Peak's Night on the First Drive

Bishop Gorman came to Highland to keep a promise it made a year ago in Las Vegas and left with a 38-14 win. Brayley Manning had two interceptions and two pass breakups before halftime. Lone Peak lost by 24 and looked better doing it than it has all season against this class of opponent.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

SPIN Media results card reading Battle of Florida, final score St. Thomas Aquinas 31, Columbus 24, with both school marks and each team's national ranking.

Football

Aquinas Won by Seven. Columbus Lost by 28 Fewer Points Than Last Year.

St. Thomas Aquinas beat Columbus 31-24 in Fort Lauderdale on Friday night, four days after three national polls called the Raiders the best team in America. The Raiders led 24-7 in the third quarter. They did not lead by 17 again.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

SPIN Media Fast Friday graphic listing seven Week 5 matchups, each team shown with its school mark and national ranking.

Football

Fourth & Friday: Three Polls Made Aquinas No. 1. We Made It Five.

St. Thomas Aquinas of Fort Lauderdale woke up Monday as the No. 1 team in three national polls. Friday it hosts Columbus of Miami, the team that just beat Bishop Gorman. And Gorman keeps a promise it made in Las Vegas a year ago.

Max Fielder•Sep 4, 2026

Football

Five Boards, One Weekend, and a Southern California Reshuffle Caused by a Game in Florida

SPIN Week 4 regional rankings: Utah, NorCal, SoCal, Arizona and Nevada

Max Fielder•Sep 2, 2026

Football

Nine In, Nine Out, and a Top Ten That Will Not Sort Itself

The SPIN National Top 50, Week 4

Max Fielder•Sep 2, 2026

Four SPIN final-score cards from the Out West slate of Aug. 27-28, 2026.

Football

Out West Went 2-0 Against Texas and Idaho Beat Modesto

Every SPIN regional board's Thursday and Friday, from Corner Canyon's mercy rule to a one-point night in Corona

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Don Bosco Prep 38, Armwood 14, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Don Bosco Prep Handled Armwood by 24

SPIN's No. 30 won 38-14 at home in Ramsey

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Oakland 50, Centerville 20, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Oakland Won by 30 in Ohio

SPIN's No. 28 beat Centerville 50-20 on the road

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

Football

Mission Viejo 77, St. Paul 12

The widest margin on SPIN's national board this week

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Servite 42, Murrieta Valley 10, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Servite Got Its First Win and It Was Not Close

42-10 at Murrieta Valley, with Murrieta shut out after halftime

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: West of Salt Lake City 21, Archbishop Riordan 13, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

West Held Archbishop Riordan Scoreless After Halftime

The only game this week putting two SPIN regional boards on the same field went 21-13 to Utah

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Herriman 55, West Jordan 7, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Herriman Put 55 on West Jordan

SPIN's Utah No. 10 won by 48 on the road

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Corner Canyon 49, Fremont 0, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Corner Canyon Ran the Mercy Rule on Its Own Field

Jaxon Pehrson threw five touchdown passes in a 49-0 win over Fremont

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Brownsburg 31, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee 15, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Brownsburg Led 21-7 at the Half and Was Never Caught

SPIN's No. 21 beat Rabun Gap-Nacoochee 31-15 at home in Indiana

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Paramus Catholic 35, La Salle College 14, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Paramus Catholic Spotted La Salle Two Scores and Won by 21

SPIN's No. 47 lost 35-14 at the Battle at the Beach in Ocean City

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: McCallie 67, St. Mary's Ryken 17, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

McCallie's Quarterback Threw for 345 Yards in the First Half

Louis Fortier finished 19-of-23 for 441 and four touchdowns in a 67-17 win

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Lee County 23, Miami Carol City 20, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Carol City Was Shut Out for a Half and Lost in Leesburg

Lee County beat SPIN's No. 17 23-20 after trailing by 12 at the break

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: De La Salle 35, Serra 25, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

De La Salle Trailed After a Quarter and Scored 14 in the Fourth

NorCal's No. 1 opened its season 35-25 at No. 3 Serra of San Mateo

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Folsom 23, Cardinal Newman 17 in overtime, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Folsom Blocked Two Kicks and Needed Overtime to Beat Cardinal Newman

CJ Wallace's 99-yard kickoff return and a blocked field goal kept SPIN's No. 44 alive at 23-17

Sloane Carter•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: St. John Bosco 45, Roman Catholic 25, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Bosco Scored 31 in the Second Quarter and Maliq Allen Had Four

St. John Bosco 45, Roman Catholic 25, and a field goal as the half expired made it 38-7

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Allen 26, Duncanville 7, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Allen 26, Duncanville 7: Eight Sacks and 163 Yards Allowed

SPIN's No. 23 beat our No. 9 in both teams' first game of the season

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: American Heritage 35, East St. Louis 28 in overtime, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

American Heritage Spotted East St. Louis Nothing, Then Gave Back 28

A 21-0 lead became overtime. A Jaytoin Thomas interception ended it 35-28.

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Mount Carmel 48, St. Joseph Regional 44, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Mount Carmel Was Down 30-0 in the First Quarter and Won 48-44

Brady Cloherty threw seven touchdown passes in Chicago, the last one on fourth-and-8

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: St. Frances Academy 49, DeLand 35, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

St. Frances Was Tied at the Half. Then It Scored 28 More.

SPIN's No. 1 opened its season 49-35 at DeLand after a first half that went sideways

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN final-score card: Santa Margarita 21, Centennial of Corona 20, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Football

Santa Margarita Wins It by a Deflected Extra Point

Ca'ron Williams' pick-six on the last play of the third quarter held up 21-20 at Centennial

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

SPIN National Top 50 graphic for Week 3 listing the top ten: St. Frances Academy, Bishop Gorman, Baylor School, IMG Academy, Santa Margarita, Buford, Centennial of Corona, Mater Dei, Duncanville and St. John Bosco, beside a high school football player in a helmet and jersey number 21.

Football

We Cut Five Teams Monday. Two of Them Spent Friday Beating Teams We Kept.

American Heritage and Mount Carmel came off the SPIN Top 50 on Aug. 24. Four nights later they beat our No. 39 and our No. 35. Eight ranked teams lost across Thursday and Friday, four of them to opponents we do not rank, and the best team in America needed a second half to get out of Florida.

Max Fielder•Aug 29, 2026

Mountain Ridge players in red Sentinels jerseys and white MR helmets walk off the field celebrating after beating Davis, with a full student section and the Mountain Ridge press box lit behind them and a television camera at the right. Across the bottom the Mountain Ridge and Davis school marks flank the score, which reads 42, FINAL, 7, above a line reading Utah Top 10, number 2 Mountain Ridge vs number 6 Davis, with the SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at bottom right.

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Mountain Ridge Has Scored 41, 42 and 42. Davis Was Just the Latest to Find Out.

The second ranked team in Utah beat the sixth 42-7, went seven straight quarters without allowing a point along the way, and looks like a problem for everybody above it.

Max Fielder•Aug 27, 2026

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Sierra Canyon Went to Florida and Did Not Let Chaminade-Madonna Score Again

Tied at seven at halftime on a neutral field in Broward County, the 14th ranked team in America scored the last 17 points and won 24-7.

Max Fielder•Aug 27, 2026

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NorCal Top 10: De La Salle First, Central East Fifth, and All Ten Open Friday

SPIN opens its Northern California board with De La Salle on top and Folsom second. Serra is third on a roster read that three head to head results argue against, and Central East debuts fifth above two teams it plays inside eight days.

Max Fielder•Aug 25, 2026

SPIN Nevada Top 10 card for Week 3, listing ten Nevada schools with logos, records and movement on blue and black plates. Bishop Gorman is first at 2-0, Churchill County second, Spanish Springs third, and Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon enters at fourth. At right, a Churchill County player in a white and green uniform wearing number four. The SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark is at bottom right.

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Nevada Power 10, Week 3: Churchill County to Second and Bishop Manogue Comes Off

Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon enters at fourth after beating McQueen in Reno. Palo Verde climbs five, the biggest move on this board.

Sloane Carter•Aug 25, 2026

SPIN SoCal Top 10 card for Week 3, listing ten Southern California schools with logos, records and movement on blue and black plates. Santa Margarita is first at 1-0, Centennial of Corona second, Mater Dei third, and St. John Bosco fourth at 0-1 after a fall of three. At right, a Santa Margarita quarterback in a navy jersey wearing number three, carrying the ball. The SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark is at bottom right.

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SoCal Top 10, Week 3: Santa Margarita Takes the Top Spot and Bosco Drops to Fourth

Nine of the ten played and six won. Every result finished in board order or better, and nobody outside this ten beat anybody inside it.

Sloane Carter•Aug 25, 2026

SPIN Utah Top 10 card for Week 3, listing ten Utah schools with logos, records and movement on blue and black plates. Corner Canyon is first at 2-0, Mountain Ridge second, American Fork third, Skyridge fourth, and Herriman enters at tenth. At right, a Mountain Ridge Sentinels player in a red jersey and white helmet wearing number one. The SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark is at bottom right.

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Utah Power 10, Week 3: Lone Peak Falls Six and American Fork Climbs After a Loss

Skyridge is the biggest riser in the state after we made it the biggest fall a week ago. Herriman gets in after three weeks as first out. Timpview comes off.

Sloane Carter•Aug 25, 2026

SPIN National Top 50 card for Week 3, showing ranks one through ten on glossy red and black plates with record and movement columns. St. Frances Academy of Maryland holds first at 0-0, Bishop Gorman of Nevada is second at 2-0, and St. John Bosco of California sits tenth at 0-1 after a fall of eight. At right, two photographed players in helmets, one in Bishop Gorman red and one in St. John Bosco blue wearing number 21. The SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark is at top left.

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SPIN National Top 50, Week 3: St. Frances Held, Bosco Fell Eight, Five Came Off

Bishop Gorman moves to No. 2 after the best win in America this month. Lone Peak is off the board entirely. Five teams came off and five came on.

Max Fielder•Aug 25, 2026

SPIN Cycle graphic for Utah: a blue neon circle of arrows over a snow-capped mountain range above a lit city skyline inside a floodlit stadium, with the Skyridge falcon at the top of the ring, the Corner Canyon charger at right and the Orem tiger at left, SPIN CYCLE across the top in chrome and the SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at bottom right.

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Skyridge Rebounds, Corner Canyon Rolls, American Fork Fights

Skyridge beat Orem 21-14 on 14 fourth-quarter points, Corner Canyon pushed its two-game margin to 91-21, Mountain Ridge shut out Lehi, and American Fork was within six of Mater Dei in the fourth.

Sloane Carter•Aug 24, 2026

SPIN Cycle graphic for Southern California: a blue neon circle of arrows over a gold sunset on the Los Angeles coastline framed by palm trees inside a floodlit stadium, with the Santa Margarita SM roundel at the top of the ring, the St. John Bosco SJ monogram at right and the Orange Lutheran shield at left, SPIN CYCLE across the top in chrome and the SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at bottom right.

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SPIN Cycle SoCal: Santa Margarita Is Passing the Trinity League

Santa Margarita shut out an Orlando program behind Fletch Palmer's first career start while the rest of the Trinity League went 2-4. St. John Bosco lost in Las Vegas and Orange Lutheran lost by one.

Sloane Carter•Aug 24, 2026

SPIN Cycle graphic for Nevada: a red neon circle of arrows over the Las Vegas Strip at dusk inside a floodlit stadium, with the Bishop Gorman G at the top of the ring, the Churchill County Fallon Greenwave roundel at right and the Bishop Manogue M at left, SPIN CYCLE across the top in chrome and the SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at bottom right.

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SPIN Cycle Nevada: Bishop Gorman Won the Night and Little Else Did

Bishop Gorman beat St. John Bosco 38-28 at Fertitta Field and Churchill County went to 2-0 by a combined three points. Everywhere else, Nevada went to California and came back beaten.

Max Fielder•Aug 24, 2026

SPIN Cycle graphic for the national board: a blue neon circle of arrows over a night city skyline inside a floodlit stadium, with the Bishop Gorman G at the top of the ring, the Baylor School shield at right and the IMG Academy mark at left, SPIN CYCLE across the top in chrome and the SPIN Sports Idol Nation mark at bottom right.

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SPIN Cycle: Bishop Gorman Beat Bosco and Seven of the 50 Lost

Bishop Gorman won 38-28 in Las Vegas and IMG Academy won 59-3 in Utah. Seven teams from the SPIN Top 50 lost over three days, and three of them lost to teams outside it.

Max Fielder•Aug 24, 2026

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Bishop Gorman 38, St. John Bosco 28. The Best Win in America.

Bishop Gorman led St. John Bosco 21-0, saw the lead vanish, and won 38-28 on Ace Amina's four touchdown passes, the last a 54-yard dagger by former Brave Corey Hinton Jr.

Max Fielder•Aug 22, 2026

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Lone Peak Asked for the Test. IMG Academy Graded It 59-3.

IMG Academy opened its 2026 season with a running-clock 59-3 win over Lone Peak, our Utah No. 2, in Highland. Bishop Gorman visits the same Utah stadium on Sept. 4.

Sloane Carter•Aug 22, 2026

SPIN Sports Idol Nation final score card. Centennial of Corona, ranked third in Southern California, beat Servite of Anaheim, ranked eighth, 41 to 21 in a nonleague game at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Key numbers show Centennial leading 14-0 after the first quarter and Servite outscoring the Huskies 21-20 from 21-0 onward.

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Centennial Scored on Its First Three Drives. Servite Won the Rest of the Night.

The Huskies won their opener 41-21 at Orange Coast College. What happened after they went up three scores is the part our SoCal board has to read carefully.

Sloane Carter•Aug 21, 2026

SPIN Sports Idol Nation final score card. Baylor School running back David Gabriel Georges, in a red uniform and a red and green helmet, runs upfield with the football against Brentwood Academy. The card reads Baylor 38, Brentwood 20, final, with Baylor ranked fourth and Brentwood Academy ranked twelfth.

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Three Quarters of a Game, and Then David Gabriel Georges

Baylor led our No. 12 by four entering the fourth quarter. Then it scored 21 points in twelve minutes and lightning ended the night early.

Max Fielder•Aug 21, 2026

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St. John Bosco Is First in SoCal and Servite at Eight Is the Bet

SPIN opens the 2026 SoCal Top 10 with St. John Bosco first and reigning state champion Santa Margarita second. Servite at eight is the widest disagreement on the board, and the LA Times has them 15th.

Sloane Carter•Aug 18, 2026

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Basha Is First in Arizona and Liberty at Four Gets a Rematch

SPIN opens the 2026 Arizona Top 10 with Basha first, Hamilton second and two-time Open champion Liberty of Peoria fourth. Corner Canyon beat Liberty by 31 last fall. The Lions get them back Sept. 4.

Max Fielder•Aug 18, 2026

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Nevada Power 10, Week 2: Seven Played, One Won, and the Top Four Did Not Move

Bishop Gorman shut out Losee in a game lightning ended at halftime. Every other Nevada board team that played in Week 1 lost. Three of those losses cost nothing, because of who they came against. Churchill County, Mater East and Palo Verde take the seats that opened below.

Sloane Carter•Aug 17, 2026

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Utah Power 10, Week 2: Nobody Got In, and Almost Everybody Moved

All ten teams on our Utah board played in Week 1. Eight won. Both losses came from inside the top ten, so the board returns with no entries and no exits. Everything else about it changed. American Fork is up four, Skyridge is down four, and six of the ten sit somewhere new.

Sloane Carter•Aug 17, 2026

SPIN results card showing Edison of Huntington Beach, California 41, Iolani of Honolulu 27 at the Father Bray Athletic Complex on Aug. 15, 2026, with the Edison Chargers crest and the Iolani Raiders shield.

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SPIN Cycle Extra: Faith Lutheran Fell and California Went 8-0

The opening weekend needed one extra day. Faith Lutheran lost a game that took two days to play, Edison finished a perfect California trip, and one Las Vegas score is in open dispute.

Max Fielder•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing Churchill County of Fallon, Nevada 32, Bishop Manogue of Reno 30 on Aug. 14, 2026, with Churchill County unranked and Bishop Manogue at Nevada No. 5.

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SPIN Cycle Out West: Six Wins, Two Storms and a Settled Score

Utah's top ten finished six for six against outsiders, Nevada finally agreed on the score in Fallon's favor, and California quietly got its season started in Hawaii.

Sloane Carter•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing Mater Academy East 43, Faith Lutheran 35 in Las Vegas across Aug. 14 and 15, 2026, with the Mater Academy East knight and Faith Lutheran shield logos and a Nevada No. 6 rank chip.

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Mater East Needed Two Days and a Lineman to Beat Faith Lutheran

Lightning stopped the game Friday night at 7-5 after one quarter. It ended Saturday at 43-35, on a one-yard touchdown by a lineman with 76 seconds left.

Sloane Carter•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing Mililani of Hawaii 31, Liberty of Henderson, Nevada 24 at John Kauinana Stadium on Aug. 14, 2026, with the Liberty and Mililani school logos and Nevada No. 2 and Hawaii No. 1 rank chips.

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Mililani 31, Liberty of Henderson 24 and Nevada Felt It

Nevada's No. 2 flew to Oahu in a storm week and lost to the top team in the Star-Advertiser rankings, with a first-time starter throwing for 273 on the Patriots.

Max Fielder•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing West of Salt Lake City 20, Arbor View of Las Vegas 14 on Aug. 14, 2026, with SPIN Utah No. 8 and SPIN Nevada No. 3 rank chips.

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Utah 8 Over Nevada 3 Is the Result That Orders the West

West of Salt Lake City beating Arbor View is one score from one Friday. It is also the only game of the opening weekend that put a Utah board team against a Nevada board team, and Utah took it.

Max Fielder•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing Orem 16, Kamehameha Kapalama 7 at Kunuiakea Stadium in Honolulu on Aug. 14, 2026.

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Orem Beat the Storm to Honolulu and Kamehameha Too

Tropical Storm Lala moved the game up a day and pushed gusts up to 25 mph through Kunuiakea Stadium. The defending Utah 5A champions won 16-7 and barely blinked.

Sloane Carter•Aug 16, 2026

SPIN results card showing North Gwinnett 37, Grayson 22 in the Corky Kell and Dave Hunter Classic at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Aug. 12, 2026.

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North Gwinnett Hit Grayson With 37 Straight and Meant It

Our National No. 11 trailed 37-0 before it scored. The first board casualty of 2026 has film nobody in Loganville wants, and the winner has our full attention.

Max Fielder•Aug 16, 2026

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SPIN Cycle: Grayson Fell First, Gorman Coasted and Utah Flexed

The 2026 season opened with our No. 11 down 37-0 in Atlanta, our No. 3 winning a shutout the weather ended at halftime, and storms rewriting two states.

Max Fielder•Aug 15, 2026

Corner Canyon players celebrate on the field in Kaysville after beating Davis 51-14 on Aug. 14, 2026, with a SPIN final-score overlay reading Corner Canyon 51, Davis 14, labeled Utah Power 10.

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The Oldest Story in the Sport, Played Out in Kaysville

The home crowd got the first half it wanted. Then Corner Canyon remembered what it was, and the whole thing was over in about twenty minutes.

Max Fielder•Aug 15, 2026

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Nevada Power 10: The 2026 Preseason Board

Thirty Clark County programs walked away from the state playoffs. Five of them are on this board. Bishop Gorman is still No. 1 and now has almost nobody left to beat.

Sloane Carter•Aug 14, 2026

Mountain Ridge running back Bradley Foster crosses the goal line past a Skyridge defender during Mountain Ridge's 41-26 win at Mountain Ridge High School in Herriman, Utah.

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The Mountain Ridge Overreaction Is Actually Just a Reaction

Mountain Ridge trailed Skyridge 20-6 in Herriman on Thursday night, then outscored the Falcons 35-6 to win 41-26. We had the Sentinels sixth in Utah. Week 1 says that was too low.

Max Fielder•Aug 14, 2026

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Book the Flights: August's Ten Best Games

Bosco at Gorman leads a ten-day stretch that settles most of the arguments we started in July

Max Fielder•Aug 14, 2026

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Utah Power 10: The 2026 Preseason Board

Corner Canyon opens No. 1 without Eric Kjar and without all six of its first-team all-staters, two of them SPIN All-Americans. Nine other teams think that's an opening. The season starts Thursday.

Sloane Carter•Aug 13, 2026

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The Corner Canyon Dynasty Changed Drivers. Nobody Told the Engine.

Eric Kjar left for Weber State. Casey Sutera came home to replace him. Corner Canyon opens the 2026 season Friday night at Davis, and the national polls still aren't paying attention. That's their mistake.

Sloane Carter•Aug 11, 2026

SPIN montage of five players in the jerseys of the teams each poll ranked No. 1: St. John Bosco, DeSoto, St. Frances Academy, IMG Academy and Buford.

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Five Polls Picked Five Different No. 1s

MaxPreps says Bosco. USA Today says IMG. ESPN says Buford. Rivals says DeSoto. We say Baltimore, and we brought the December film to prove it. The full SPIN Preseason Top 50, below.

Max Fielder•Aug 7, 2026