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Texas high school football computer rankings (9/24/2024)

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every division and classification of Texas high school football ahead of Week 5

Andy Buhler

Duncanville captains take field in Texas for ranked high school showdown with Maryland's St. Frances Academy on Sept. 14, 2024.
Duncanville captains take field in Texas for ranked high school showdown with Maryland's St. Frances Academy on Sept. 14, 2024. / Photo by Michael Horbovetz, SBLive

Week 5 of the 2024 Texas high school football season is all wrapped up and High School on SI is debuting its first computer rankings of the season.

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 SBLive's human power rankings — the statewide top 25 — released early each week.

Which teams took the top spot in each classifications for both UIL and TAPPS? Here are SBLive's latest Texas football computer rankings, as of September 24, 2024:

TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS

UIL CLASS 6A

UIL CLASS 5A DIVISION I | 5A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 4A DIVISION I | 4A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 3A DIVISION I | 3A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 2A DIVISION I | 2A DIVISION II

UIL CLASS 1A DIVISION I (6-MAN) | 1A DIVISION II (6-MAN)

TAPPS DIVISION I | TAPPS DIVISION II

TAPPS DIVISION III | TAPPS DIVISION IV

TAPPS 6-MAN DIVISION I | TAPPS 6-MAN DIVISION II

TAPPS 6-MAN DIVISION III

SBLIVE SPORTS LAUNCHES HIGH SCHOOL ON SI

High School On SI will serve as the premier destination for high school sports fans, delivering unparalleled coverage of high school athletics nationwide through in-depth stories, recruiting coverage, rankings, highlights and much more. The launch of a dedicated high school experience expands Sports Illustrated’s reach to even more local communities as fans can now truly follow athletes from “preps to the pros” on a single platform, bringing them closer to the action than ever before.

For more information, visit si.com/high-school.

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Andy Buhler

ANDY BUHLER

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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