Texas high school football computer rankings: North Shore No. 1 (11/1/2023)
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)
-- Andy Buhler | andy@scorebooklive.com | @sblivetx
Lead photo by Tom Dendy
