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Texas high school football computer rankings: North Shore No. 1 (11/1/2023)

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every division and classification of Texas high school football

Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports

Week 10 of the Texas high school football season in rear view, and SBLive Sports has released its 2023 Texas high school football computer rankings for every division in the Lone Star State.

And the newest computer rankings highlight notable lack of consensus on who the state's top team is.

DeSoto rose from No. 2 to No. 1 in the latest SBLive Texas Power 25 rankings Monday after a convincing win over No. 2 Duncanville Saturday and North Shore jumped from No. 3 to No. 2 after an equally convincing win over No. 7 Atascocita.

The formula disagrees, slotting North Shore at No. 1 and DeSoto at No. 2. Dave Campbell's Texas Football, which runs the statewide Associated Press poll, also has North Shore at No. 1 and DeSoto at No. 2.

Dive into the full computer rankings for every classification — both UIL and TAPPS — reflecting results after Week 10 below.

SBLive's formula was created using its own linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm in order to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.

Our computer rankings, released weekly, run parallel to two sets of human power rankings — the statewide top 25 and South Texas top 25 all-classification power rankings, all released Monday.

Here are SBLive's latest Texas football computer rankings, as of November 1, 2023:

UIL CLASS 1A DIVISION I (SIX-MAN)

UIL CLASS 1A DIVISION II (SIX-MAN)

UIL CLASS 2A DIVISION I

UIL CLASS 2A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 3A DIVISION I

UIL CLASS 3A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 4A DIVISION I

UIL CLASS 4A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 5A DIVISION I

UIL CLASS 5A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 6A

TAPPS DIVISION I (11-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION II (11-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION III (11-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION IV (11-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION I (6-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION II (6-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION III (6-MAN)

-- Andy Buhler | andy@scorebooklive.com | @sblivetx

Lead photo by Tom Dendy

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Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports
ANDY BUHLER, SBLIVE SPORTS

Andy Buhler is a Regional Editor of Texas and the national breaking news desk. He brings more than five years of experience covering high school sports across the state of Washington and beyond, where he covered the likes of Paolo Banchero and Tari Eason served on state tournament seeding committees. He works on the SBLive/Sports Illustrated Power 25 national boys basketball rankings. He has covered everything from the Final Four, MLS in Atlanta to local velodrome before diving into the world of preps. His bylines can be found in The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), The Associated Press, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), The Oregonian and more. He holds a degree from Gonzaga and is based out of Portland, Oregon.

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