Who can bring home elusive FHSAA state football titles?
Orlando area high school football teams have been shut out of state championship status since the COVID-infected 2020 season, when Sanford Seminole...
Orlando area high school football teams have been shut out of state championship status since the COVID-infected 2020 season, when Sanford Seminole completed a 12-0 run with a 38-10 rout of Kissimmee Osceola in an all-Central Florida Class 8A final at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. In the past two seasons, teams from the South half of the playoff brackets have dominated. Apopka (11-4 in 2022), a 3-time state champion, was the only area team to reach a final. The Blue Darters lost a 16-13 overtime heartbreaker against Miami Columbus in last year's Class 4M (Metro) championship game in Fort Lauderdale after falling to Venice 35-7 in the 2021 Class 8A title game.