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It took nine wins — most of them blowouts — and approximately 47 perfectly choreographed touchdown celebrations, but at long last, MaxPreps has seen the light. The Carroll Dragons football team has officially entered the site's national top ten, landing at No. 10 in the latest 2025 rankings.
MaxPreps is a national high school sports platform that compiles team records, player stats and rankings for nearly every program in the country. It’s widely used by coaches, recruiters and fans as a go-to source for comparing teams from different states.
As of October 26, 2025, MaxPreps ranked Carroll as the No. 1 team in Texas 6A football — a spot it has held for a spell. But national flowers had been hard to come by, until last weekend.
Facing an upstart L.D. Bell squad that some said were the second-best team in District 4-6A, Carroll once again showed its in a class of its own, holding the Raiders scoreless en route to a 49-0 drubbing. That result pushed Carroll's point-differential total to plus-399 through nine games.
Looking again at the MaxPreps national top ten, three of the teams are from California (St. John Bosco, Centennial, Sierra Canyon), two from Georgia (Grayson, Buford), one from Maryland (St. Frances Academy), one from Florida (IMG Academy), one from Nevada (Bishop Gorman), and one from Louisiana (Edna Karr). While Texas may be home to endless high school football talent, Carroll is the only Texas team in the MaxPreps top ten.
This latest top-ten nod is another in a long line of national and statewide recognition for the Dragons. The Massey Ratings have Carroll ranked No. 4 in the nation, while Dave Campbell’s Texas Football pegged them as the top 6A team in the state in its pre-season rankings.