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Real programs, real scores, real recruiting boards and real stat leaders — plus cards the players build themselves.

Programs
Games logged
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Player cards

This week

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Latest film

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Around the county

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Updated weekly

Watchlist

The games, players and storylines actually worth your Friday night — hand-picked and sourced, refreshed on the same weekly rhythm as Scores. Not a live feed: this is researched and written by hand, the same honest way What If and Rivalries are.

Must-see games

This season’s marquee matchups so far

Breakout players

Sourced from LarryBlustein.com’s season-opening scouting

Storylines

What these results actually mean, tied to real games and records above

Voices

Real interviews and breakdowns, written or on video

“Voices” links to real published interviews, film breakdowns and radio/video segments about South Florida high school football — not anything recorded or written by 305 Gridiron. Right now it’s one strong entry; more get added the same researched, sourced way as everything else on this page, not on a fixed schedule.

Around the county & beyond

News

Real, sourced headlines on South Florida high school football — recruiting buzz, ranking movement, and results. Every headline links to the original reporting.

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Tri-county

The Map

Every program we track across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Pick a school for its record, coach, history and where its players ended up — or switch to pipeline mode to see which schools feed the Hurricanes and the Dolphins.

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School pins sit at their real campus coordinates, geocoded from the addresses in the federal school directory. The coastline and county shapes behind them are simplified — this is a schematic, not a survey map. One pin (Cardinal Newman) is positioned approximately because we couldn’t verify its coordinates; it’s marked on the map.

All programs

Where the talent goes

Each ribbon is one South Florida high school feeding one destination, sized by how many players it sent. This is counted from published rosters, not estimated.

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Recruiting radar

Radar

Ranked South Florida prospects, who they picked, and when. Every rating below is a third-party service’s published number with the date we read it — none of it is 305 Gridiron’s evaluation of any player.

Commitment timeline

Only prospects with a date we could confirm

Prospects

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Heights and weights are what the recruiting services list, not verified measurements — services disagree with each other on the same player, which is a good sign these are estimates rather than measured numbers. We could not verify a single laser-timed 40, shuttle or vertical for anyone on this board, so no testing numbers are published here. If a number ever appears on this page it will name the event and the timing method, because hand times typically run about two tenths faster than laser times for the same run.

Recruiting notes

South Florida only — class of 2026, via LarryBlustein.com

Twenty Miami-Dade and Broward names worth knowing beyond the headline board above. These are the facts each report gives — school, position, size — not 305 Gridiron’s read on how any of them fits a college roster; that kind of “local fit” call belongs to the recruiting services and coaches actually evaluating them, not to us.

Where South Florida goes

Colleges

Every college a tracked South Florida recruit has committed to or signed with, with real program info and every prospect we have on record headed there. Sorted by how many local recruits each program has landed.

Conference and location are checked against each school’s current athletics site. Program colors below are widely-cited public values we have not checked against an official brand guide, so treat them as close, not exact.

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Side by side

Compare

Two prospects or two programs, stacked against each other on the real numbers we track — composite ratings, records, and roster shape. No simulated plays or predicted outcomes, just what’s actually on the board.

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Composite ratings and state/national ranks are a recruiting service’s published numbers, not 305 Gridiron’s evaluation of either player. Heights and weights are service-listed, not measured.

Tri-county directory

Teams

Real high school football programs across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach with real records, sourced from MaxPreps and refreshed weekly. Open a program for its full roster, schedule, results, and player cards.

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Recruiting board

Rankings

Where South Florida sits in the statewide picture: the top-ranked recruits coming out of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, and where local programs land in the state poll.

Both boards below are real, sourced third-party rankings — recruit ratings and ranks come from the Rivals Industry composite, and the team poll is High School Football America’s Florida Top 25. Recruiting services often disagree on star counts for the same player, so this shows each prospect’s composite rating and statewide rank rather than a star number. Nothing here is 305 Gridiron’s own evaluation of anyone.

305 Power Rankings

Computed, not voted

This is the one ranking on the site that is ours, and it ranks teams — never individual students. It’s arithmetic, not opinion: no one votes, and the full working is shown for every team so you can check it.

How the number is calculated

Each team gets a score out of 100 from three parts. Where we haven’t logged a team’s individual games, the two parts that need game data score neutral rather than being dropped — dropping them would hand an unproven team a free pass on who it played and by how much, which is how a 3–0 against nobody ends up ahead of a 3–0 that beat somebody good. Every row says when a component was scored neutral.

  • Win rate — 50%. Wins divided by games played.
  • Strength of schedule — 30%. The average win rate of the opponents a team has actually faced, counting only opponents we also track. Beating good teams is worth more than beating bad ones.
  • Scoring margin — 20%. Average points for minus points against per game, capped at ±28 so one blowout can’t carry a season.

Early-season caveat, stated plainly: most teams have played two or three games. Two or three games is not enough to separate teams honestly, so treat September numbers as a rough sort, not a verdict. Teams with fewer than two games played are listed but marked provisional.

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Tiers, in plain language

The same Power Rankings scores, bucketed and explained

Four groups instead of one long list — same computed scores as above, just grouped so the gaps between teams are easier to read at a glance. Buckets are re-cut every time the numbers change, not fixed in advance.

Top South Florida recruits

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South Florida in the state poll

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Real, sourced numbers

Stat leaders

A snapshot of individual statistical leaders from real South Florida programs, sourced from MaxPreps and refreshed on the same weekly schedule as Scores.

Unlike Rankings and Scouting, these are real students’ real public stats — the same numbers MaxPreps already publishes. There’s no commentary or grading attached here, just the count. It’s an early-season snapshot (small sample sizes this early), taken from South Florida programs only — not a statewide leaderboard.

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Results & schedule

Scores

Real final scores and real upcoming matchups between these programs, as of September 6, 2026.

Game-day guide: weather, field & getting there

South Florida high school football runs hot and humid into late September — afternoon thunderstorms are common early season and are the usual reason a kickoff gets delayed, while November and December playoff games are the coolest and driest of the year. This is general regional seasonal pattern, not a live forecast for any specific game — check a real weather app for that.

Getting there: use Waze or Google Maps for live traffic rather than anything static here, and plan to arrive well before kickoff — stadium lots at rivalry games fill up early. Ticket and streaming links on each game above go straight to GoFan and NFHS Network, the schools’ own services.

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Friday night reports

Scores sent in by coaches, parents and fans — posted straight away so Friday results show up fast, and clearly marked as unverified until we can confirm them against a published source.

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Anyone signed in can send a score. Because these post immediately, an unverified report is one person’s account of a game and nothing more — it hasn’t been checked, and it may be wrong. Confirmed reports carry a green check and the source they were matched against. Recaps written with AI assistance say so on the card; they’re generated only from the score and notes the submitter typed in, and they can’t add details nobody supplied. Submitters can delete their own report. If something here is wrong about your program, email the address in the Privacy Policy and it comes down.

Tips from the community

Photos, scoop, corrections — anything that doesn’t fit the score form above. Same rules as everything else here: signed in, posted immediately, and about the game — not about any student’s life off the field.

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Going, or watching from home. Miami-Dade schools sell digital tickets through GoFan, and games are streamed and kept on demand by NFHS Network — so Tickets, Watch and Replay all open those sites in a new tab, on the program’s own page where we’ve confirmed it and the general page otherwise. Two things worth knowing before you click: NFHS Network usually requires a paid subscription, and not every game is ticketed or streamed at all. 305 Gridiron doesn’t sell tickets, stream anything, earn a cent from either, or have any affiliation with GoFan or NFHS Network — prices, availability and what actually gets broadcast are entirely theirs.

Follow along

Live

A running feed of what’s changed — final scores, fan reports and news — plus a big, glanceable scoreboard for a second screen. Everything here updates the moment it’s posted; nothing needs a manual refresh.

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Postseason & FHSAA

Playoffs

How the Florida High School Athletic Association’s state series works, and the real path South Florida teams took through the most recently completed postseason.

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2025 state championship results

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For fun, not for money

Predict

Pick winners for real, upcoming South Florida games. One point per correct pick, tallied automatically once we log a final score — nothing to buy in, nothing to win, just bragging rights on the leaderboard.

Real moments, one hypothetical

What If

A couple of real, documented South Florida high school football moments — what actually happened, sourced, followed by one clearly-labeled “what if” that’s just us wondering out loud, not a claim about what would have happened.

This is high-school-only for now. Anything built around the Miami Hurricanes’ championship teams or the Dolphins’ Super Bowl era needs the same kind of real, sourced research we did for these two — that hasn’t been done yet, so we’re not guessing at it.

Neighborhood football

Rivalries

The real series that define South Florida high school football — how they started, what they mean locally, and where they stand. Two rivalries are researched and sourced so far; more take the same work these did.

On this date

Archive

Real, dated South Florida high school football games worth remembering — from a rivalry that started in 1967 to results logged this season. When today’s date matches one, it’s flagged below; otherwise browse the full list.

Where South Florida football goes

Alumni & Local Football

Notable alumni from these programs, real sideline moves at South Florida schools, and the local events — camps, 7-on-7, signing days — that fill the calendar between seasons.

Where are they now

A sample of notable NFL alumni, by high school

Sideline moves

Real, publicly reported coaching changes

On the calendar

Camps, 7-on-7 and signing dates

Dates come from each event’s own site and can move — confirm before you drive out. Recurring NCAA signing dates are the rule, not a guess for a specific year, except where a specific date is cited.

The fastest-growing sport in the building

Girls Flag Football

South Florida is a real center of gravity for a sport growing nationally — a state champion, a Dolphins-hosted media day, and dozens of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach programs already on the field.

Reigning state champion

On the Dolphins’ stage

Broward County Showcase

Feb. 20–21, 2026 · inaugural event

South Florida in the state Top 25

Sports Illustrated / High School On SI preseason poll

Every fact on this page is sourced — nfhs.org, Newsweek, the Miami Times, LarryBlustein.com, High School Football America and Sports Illustrated / High School On SI, linked where each fact appears. This is a new section for us; it will grow the same researched way the rest of the site did, not all at once.

Film

Highlights

Every clip the players themselves have put on their card — Hudl film, YouTube tape, whatever they want scouts and fans to see. Tap any one to watch it.

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Clips open on the site the player posted them to — Hudl, YouTube and the rest — in a new tab. 305 Gridiron doesn’t host or re-upload anyone’s film, and only links a player added to their own card ever appears here.

Team film on NFHS Network

Full game broadcasts and replays for every program in the Teams tab, streamed by NFHS Network. Pick a program to see what they have.

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These are whole games on NFHS Network, not short highlight clips — and watching usually needs a paid NFHS Network subscription. We link to each program’s page there; we don’t host, re-upload or clip anyone’s broadcast, and 305 Gridiron isn’t affiliated with NFHS Network. Where a program doesn’t have a page we’ve confirmed, the link opens NFHS Network to search — some programs simply aren’t streamed.

Film room

Scouting notes

Notes coaches, scouts and fans leave on player cards — but only on cards whose owner has opened them for notes.

Players control this completely. A note can only be left on a card whose owner turned notes on, and that player can delete any note on their own card at any time. Notes are attributed to the account that wrote them, accounts aren’t identity-verified, and there are no letter grades — these are observations, not evaluations of a minor by anyone official.

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Made by the players

Player cards

Self-made cards from players across South Florida — their number, position, best stat, offers, highlights and links, all entered by the player.

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