A longstanding debate in the recruiting world has been which metro area produces the best football players. So now in conjunction with millions of other brackets, ours has reached the final four metro areas: Miami, Dallas, New Orleans and Atlanta.
Our national recruiting analysts picked the top 16 metro areas for high school football talent and seeded them 1-16, with No. 1 Tampa being their collective pick as the best. Our analyst group focused solely on the talent churned out so far in the 2020s.
And we will let the fans take it from there. So far, there has been two rounds of voting to whittle the 16 cities down to a final four.
Vote now in the semifinals and help decide the metro area that produces the best football talent.
PREVIOUS RESULTS
FIRST-ROUND RESULTS
No. 1 Tampa/St. Pete defeated No. 16 Philadelphia
No. 2 Atlanta defeated No. 15 Charlotte
No. 3 Dallas/Fort Worth defeated No. 14 Chicago
No. 4 Los Angeles defeated No. 13 Las Vegas
No. 5 Miami/South Florida defeated No. 12 St. Louis
No. 7 Detroit defeated No. 10 DMV
No. 8 New Orleans/South Louisiana defeated No. 9 Houston
No. 11 Birmingham/Montgomery defeated No. 6. South Georgia
QUARTERFINAL RESULTS
No. 8 New Orleans/South Louisiana defeated No. 1 Tampa/St. Pete
No. 2 Atlanta defeated No. 7 Detroit
No. 3 Dallas/Fort Worth defeated No. 11 Birmingham/Montgomery
No. 5 Miami/South Florida defeated No. 4 Los Angeles
No. 2. Atlanta vs. No. 3 Dallas/Fort Worth
🚨ATLANTA VS. DFW🚨
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The Case For Atlanta: The Greater Metro Atlanta Area has No. 1 written all over it. The Peach State is rich with talent year in and year out, and in the past half-decade has churned out some of the top recruits and top players in college football each Saturday. It's draft season -- so the conversation starts with former Rivals No. 1 overall player Travis Hunter.
The reigning Heisman Trophy winner is expected to come off the board early -- just like former five-star DE Myles Murphy (Cincinnati Bengals) and five-star OT Broderick Jones (Pittsburgh Steelers) did not too long ago.
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