Dominant programs in your state

Here in california we have team l de la salle. They seem to always be on top and blow everyone out of the water, even in the state games. They are a private school. Private schools here in california have an unfair advantage. Our rules have changed so you may se a leveling of the playing field. You can transfer to any school you like but you have to sit 30 days. If you have a change of address you can play right away.

Michigan doesn't have any "dominant" programs like OP's Kentucky examples. But we have around 620 schools playing Football.

Among public schools in the 38 years of playoffs Farmington Hills Harrison has won 13 titles, Mendon and East Grand Rapids 11 each, Muskegon six.

Detroit St. Martin DePorres won 12 before it closed several years ago. Detroit Catholic Central has ten, Birmingham Brother Rice, Jackson Lumen Christi and Muskegon Catholic Central eight apiece, Traverse City St. Francis and Orchard Lake St. Mary five each.

Forgot Ithaca, the division 6 school with a freakin' jumbo-tron in their own home field.

Cass Tech won the past two D1 titles with relative ease. A relatively newer program that will likely be a D1 power for a long time too. Their talent is just stupid silly.

I have lived my entire life in the same city as the evil empire

De La Salle

They have so many unfair advantages it is nowhere close to an even playing field with anyone else

I'd like to forget Ithaca, but they're the ones that knocked us out of playoffs this year.

Their stadium is better than every D-2 college one I've been in.

But they don't win because of the stadium or JumboTron.

They have a great youth program, players, and are well-coached.

The rest is just evidence of how important Football is to the community. And besides, most of the facility stuff came from one big money donor.

Frankly, the school itself (except for weight room, which was part of the Football facilities re-do) is pretty average and not all that well-kept.

As for Cass Tech - since Detroit Public Schools have closed many and consolidated - it's like playing an All-Star team.

But it's not a "newer" program. Cass Tech has been around forever. The school has changed though.

And they have a great coach in Thomas Wilcher, who played RB for Bo at U-M.

Football being important in the community is huge. Our HS x-country team had 65 kids this year. I've had kids quit football to be one of those 65. Probably didn't want them anyway but it does say something about our school's kids emphasis

Timpview High School in Utah. I believe they have won 7 of the last 10 4a state championships. Public school as well

In Ohio I'd have to say St. Ignatius, 11 state championships in the highest classification.

In Tennessee and am now watching the highest classification's championship. Maryville High School has to be up there, double digit state championships and their head coach is 193-13 over 14 years...beyond insane!

A lot of the historically great programs in Arkansas (LR Central, Northside, Pine Bluff) aren't nearly as good anymore because of the population shift to Northwest Arkansas.

Greenwood's won 38 in a row (3 state titles) and that included a jump in classification from 5A to 6A this year. State titles in '05, '06', '07, '10, '11, and '12.

Bentonville and Fayetteville have met for the past 3 state championships, with Fayetteville taking the past 2. Bentonville won in '08, Fayetteville in '07.

coachrobpsl- Yea I am in PSL. Coached at Westwood and John Carroll. Now just coaching in PSLAA. We (JC)played against Glades Day and Fred Taylor's son- Kendall? Taylor. I think Glades Day will drop off since he is going to UF.

Wisconsin has a few dominant teams.

Waunakee recently, they are a D2 (2nd largest) team. lost in the state title to snap a 48 game win streak (tied the state record) Stratford had a nice run some years ago as a small school

I'm in Maryland, privates don't compete for state titles. Dunbar in Baltimore just won there third straight 1A (smallest) title. At the higher levels there is more parity, though its usually the same teams in the hunt.

In Ohio,
Coldwater ( d5) public school
their seniors just played their 60th football game. Played in the state championship 4 yrs in a row. Lost the last 3. Won this year.

Illinois has some private and public schools that are routinely pretty good.

Mt. Carmel
Loyola Academy

Both of these compete at the largest level in Illinois. There are other programs too, but these stand out to me. Some small programs who have done well include Joliet Catholic and Driscoll (school closed, but won multiple state titles in a row up through the 2000's). There are others too.

But we have some public schools that are good year in and year out as well which do beat these teams. Mt. Carmel won state this year, only losing to Loyola in the regular season, who we beat in the semi's (so... guess who lost to Mt. Carmel at state this year.... yeah...). That's at the highest level in Illinois.

At the lower levels in Illinois, there are some very dominant private schools like I mentioned above with multiple DI players. I would hate to be a public school competing against them. We're lucky enough, at my program, to have enough talent and coaches to compete with these programs.

There is a long standing argument as to what is the best conference year in and year out in Illinois. Is it the CCL Blue (Catholic Christian League I believe, so a private league) or the DVC, which is filled with all public schools. There are some public schools outside the DVC also which compete annually as well at the two biggest levels in Illinois (8A and 7A).

The unfair thing is if a CCL blue team loses early enough in the IHSA state playoffs, they can compete in the City Playoffs and potentially compete for a ring there (not state, but still prestigious). This gives these programs extra practice time for their younger guys in the playoffs, even if they lose, which is utter BS. That's the thing I find most unfair.