How do you really know?
More often than not, that question seeps into the conversation when looking over the country’s top high school football programs. Where one team’s dominance might be impressive, enough to land them in the upper echelon of nationally ranked teams, but the reality of the high school football schedule leaves much of the placement to hypotheticals.
That’s to say, the No. 5 team is excellent, maybe as great as the No. 4 team… but they don’t play, so — what?