Yahoo Sports Carolinas Top 25: Heading to Week 5, here are the best high school football teams in NC, SC
As conference and region play begins in North and South Carolina this week, the Carolinas Top 25 poll doesn’t have many changes.
But as more ranked teams face off, that could be changing.
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There is one new team this week. Havelock High, from Havelock, N.C., is off to a 4-0 start and checks in at No. 20.
In all, three of the top four teams are from South Carolina, but 14 of the 25 total teams are from North Carolina.
Rank | School | State | Hometown | Record | LW. |
1 | Weddington | NC | Weddington | (4-0) | 1 |
2 | Dutch Fork | SC | Irmo | (3-0) | 2 |
3 | Gaffney | SC | Gaffney | (3-0) | 3 |
4 | Northwestern | SC | Rock Hill | (4-0) | 4 |
5 | Providence Day | NC | Charlotte | (3-1) | 5 |
6 | Grimsley | NC | Greensboro | (3-0) | 6 |
7 | East Forsyth | NC | Kernersville | (3-0) | 7 |
8 | Westside | SC | Anderson | (3-0) | 8 |
9 | Summerville | SC | Summerville | (3-0) | 9 |
10 | Rolesville | NC | Rolesville | (3-1) | 10 |
11 | Irmo | SC | Irmo | (4-0) | 12 |
12 | Mallard Creek | NC | Charlotte | (2-1) | 18 |
13 | Independence | NC | Charlotte | (4-0) | 13 |
14 | Hough | NC | Cornelius | (2-1) | 14 |
15 | Sumter | SC | Sumter | (4-0) | 16 |
16 | Hickory | NC | Hickory | (3-0) | 11 |
17 | Cardinal Gibbons | NC | Raleigh | (2-1) | 15 |
18 | J.L. Mann | SC | Greenville | (2-1) | 19 |
19 | Daniel | SC | Central | (2-1) | 20 |
20 | Havelock | NC | Havelock | (3-0) | NR |
21 | Dudley | NC | Greensboro | (3-0) | 22 |
22 | Hillcrest | SC | Simpsonville | (3-0) | 24 |
23 | Seventy-First | NC | Fayetteville | (3-0) | 21 |
24 | West Charlotte | NC | Charlotte | (2-0) | 23 |
25 | White Knoll | SC | Lexington | (2-1) | 25 |
