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Reigning champs are preseason's top team

By Mark Tennis and Doug Huff
ESPNRISE.com

Thursday, July 30, 2009

A showdown is brewing between two of the nation's premier high school football programs. The top two teams in the preseason ESPN RISE FAB 50 rankings -- St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Byrnes (Duncan, S.C.) -- are slated to meet on Oct. 2 (ESPNU, 8 p.m. ET) in South Florida. If the two squads make it through their early slates unbeaten, it would set up the third showdown in the past 10 years between the No. 1 and No. 2 high school teams. St. Thomas Aquinas rolled to a Class 5A ...

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