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 final 2026 rankings that were released on Oct. 19, with first-place votes in parenthesis.
CLASS 6A
1. Brownsburg (18)
2. Warren Central
3. Westfield
4. Lawrence North
5. Crown Point
6. Penn
7. Center Grove
8. Carroll
9. Merrillville
10. Carmel
Others receiving votes: Decatur Central, Zionsville.
CLASS 5A
1. Cathedral (10)
2. New Palestine (3)
3. Bloomington South
4. Warsaw (2)
5. Pendleton Heights (3)
6. Floyd Central
7. Lafayette Jeff
8. Plainfield
9. Snider
10. Castle
Others receiving votes: Concord, Terre Haute South, Evansville North, Huntington North, Mt. Vernon (Fortville).
CLASS 4A
1. Bishop Dwenger (5)
2. Roncalli (3)
3. Bishop Chatard (7)
4. East Central
5. East Noble (1)
6. Northridge (2)
7. Danville
8. Evansville Reitz
9. South Bend St. Joseph
10. Logansport
Others receiving votes: Heritage Hills.
CLASS 3A
1. Evansville Memorial (15)
2. Andrean (1)
3. Gibson Southern
4. Indian Creek (2)
5. Lawrenceburg
6. Griffith
7. Bluffton
8. Evansville Mater Dei
9. Maconaquah
10. Tri-West
Others receiving votes: Adams Central, Tippecanoe Valley, West Noble.
CLASS 2A
1. Brownstown Central (9)
2. South Putnam (5)
3. Indianapolis Lutheran (3)
4. Eastside
5. Eastern Hancock (1)
6. Lapel
7. Cascade
8. Eastern (Greentown)
9. North Posey
10. Hagerstown
Others receiving votes: Wheeler.
CLASS 1A
1. Pioneer (14)
2. Riverton Parke (4)
3. North Daviess
4. North Judson
5. South Adams
6. Tecumseh
7. Wes-Del
8. Milan
9. Carroll (Flora)
10. Knightstown
Others receiving votes: Madison-Grant, Caston, Springs Valley, West Central, Fremont.
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