HS FOOTBALL: USA Today Network Preseason Football Poll released

The USA TODAY Network High School Football Poll is a poll in its second year of existence and voted on by various media members and football insiders around the state.

Outside the Huddle is a voting member.

Here are the preseason rankings that were released on August 17, with first-place votes in parenthesis.

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CLASS 6A

1. Brownsburg (16)
2. Westfield
3. Carmel
4. Lawrence North
5. Warren Central
6. Center Grove
7. Crown Point
8. Carroll
9. Penn
10. Hamilton Southeastern

Others receiving votes: Fishers, Merrillville, Ben Davis, Avon, Decatur Central, Whiteland.

CLASS 5A

1. New Palestine (16)
2. Cathedral
3. Bloomington South
4. Lafayette Jeff
5. Plainfield
6. Concord
7. Snider
8. Castle
9. Pendleton Heights
10. Floyd Central

Others receiving votes: Warsaw, Evansville North, Franklin, Bloomington North, Terre Haute South, Michigan City.

CLASS 4A

1. Roncalli (5)
2. East Central (5)
3. Bishop Chatard (3)
4. Bishop Dwenger (3)
5. Mishawaka
6. Yorktown
7. East Noble
8. South Bend St. Joseph
9. Hobart
10. Bishop Luers

Others receiving votes: Jasper, Heritage Hills, Evansville Reitz, Brebeuf Jesuit, Guerin Catholic, Martinsville, Lebanon, Muncie Central, North Side, DeKalb.

CLASS 3A

1. Andrean (10)
2. Gibson Southern (5)
3. Evansville Memorial
4. Lawrenceburg
5. Adams Central
6. Tri-West (1)
7. Evansville Mater Dei
8. Mississinewa
9. Twin Lakes
10. Eastbrook

Others receiving votes: Indian Creek, Maconaquah, West Lafayette, Griffith, Hamilton Heights, Fairfield, Heritage Christian, Southridge, Tippecanoe Valley, Bluffton.

CLASS 2A

1. Brownstown Central (7)
2. Lapel (3)
3. Indianapolis Lutheran (3)
4. Cascade (3)
5. South Putnam
t-6. Linton-Stockton
t-6. Eastern (Greentown)
8. Providence
9. Eastside
10. Knox

Others receiving votes: Triton Central, North Posey, Eastern Hancock, Rochester, Greencastle, Southmont.

CLASS 1A

1. Pioneer (12)
2. Riverton Parke (3)
3. South Adams
t-4. North Judson
t-4. Milan (1)
6. Springs Valley
7. Frontier
8. Sheridan
9. North Decatur
10. Lafayette Central Catholic

Others receiving votes: North Daviess, Tri, Tecumseh, Carroll (Flora), West Washington, North Miami, Churubusco.