When it comes to watching, evaluating and seeing prospects and teams throughout the course of a year, there are very few sources who put in the time to come up with accurate information like we do.

Player and team rankings are often subjective, and everyone has their opinion – which is fine – but it’s usually those who see very little that have the loudest voice on who should be higher or lower.

If you follow what we do over the course of a season, each week we adjust the rankings, and while many focus on pre-season and each week during the season, the only ranking that truly counts is the one that comes out in late December.

Our Pre-Season Top 20 is based on several things – and with so many transfers taking place – our opinion varies and changes. This is only a starting point and will change several times.

This is in no way a definitive ranking. Just an opinion based on seeing teams throughout the state and having a valid ground to compare.

Here is a look at 20 Miami-Dade Broward Pre-Season teams:

1 Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas (14-1, 5A). THIS WEEK: 8/24 – Las Vegas Bishop Gorman. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – Lauderdale Lakes Boyd Anderson.

2. Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna (14-0, 1A). THIS WEEK: 8/24 – Bellflower St. John Bosco, California. NEXT GAME: 8/30 - @Pompano Beach Blanche Ely.

3. Miami Central (8-3, 3A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – Lakeland. NEXT GAME: 8/31 – No. 20 Miami Edison.

4. Plantation American Heritage (10-2, 4A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – Milton, Georgia. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – No. 6 Davie Western.

5. Homestead (12-2, 6A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 - @ No. 14 Miami Palmetto. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – No. 16 Homestead South Dade.

6. Davie Western (9-4, 7A). THIS WEEK: 8/24 – Hoover, Alabama. NEXT GAME: 8/30 - @ No. 4 Plantation American Heritage.

7. Miami Christopher Columbus (13-2, 7A). THIS WEEK: 8/22 - @ No. 15 Miami Southridge. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – Our Lady of Good Counsel, Maryland

8. Miami Norland (14-1, 4A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 - @ No. 19 Miramar. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – Miami Carol City.

9. Miami Northwestern (5-6, 3A). THIS WEEK: 8/22 - @ No. 18 Coconut Creek, NEXT GAME: 8/30 - @Venice.

10. Coconut Creek Monarch (11-3, 6A). THIS WEEK: Peachtree Ridge, Georgia. NEXT GAME: 8/29 – Deerfield Beach.

11. Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons (9-4, 2A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – Lake Mary. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – Hollywood South Broward.

12. Fort Lauderdale Dillard (5-6, 4A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 - @No. 20 Plantation. NEXT GAME: 8/30 @Fort Lauderdale Stranahan.

13. Miami Booker T. Washington (9-3, 2A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – No. 16 Homestead South Dade. NEXT GAME: 8/29 – No. 13 Miami Palmetto.

14. Miami Palmetto (9-2, 7A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 - @ No. 12 Miami Booker T. Washington. NEXT GAME:

15. Miami Southridge (7-5, 6A). THIS WEEK: 8/22 – No. 7 Miami Christopher Columbus. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – Miami Lakes Barbara Goleman.

16. Homestead South Dade (8-4, 7A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 - @ No. 13 Miami Booker T. Washington. NEXT GAME:

17. Pembroke Pines West Broward (6-4, 6A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – Hollywood South Broward. NEXT GAME: 8/30 - @Camden County, Georgia.

18. Coconut Creek (10-3, 5A). THIS WEEK: 8/22 - No. 9 Miami Northwestern. NEXT GAME: 9/6 - @Baylor, Tennessee.

19. Miramar (8-5, 5A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – No. 8 Miami Norland. NEXT GAME: 8/30 - @ No. 20 Plantation.

20. Plantation (6-4, 4A). THIS WEEK: 8/23 – No. 12 Fort Lauderdale Dillard. NEXT GAME: 8/30 – No. 19 Miramar.

(TIE) Miami Edison (6-5, 1A). THIS WEEK: 8/22 – Hialeah American, NEXT GAME: 8/31 - @ No. 3 Miami Central.

KEEP AN EYE ON: Deerfield Beach (2-8, 5A), Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian (8-4, 2A), Fort Lauderdale Stranahan (5-6, 3A), Doral Academy (5-5, 6A), Hialeah (9-2, 4A), Hollywood South Broward (8-3, 6A), Miami Carol City (1-8, 2A), Miami Archbishop Carroll (11-2, 1A), Miami Gardens Monsignor Pace (6-5, 1A), Miami Immaculata LaSalle (5-6, 2A), Miami Jackson (3-7, 3A), Miami Lakes Barbara Goleman (5-6, 7A), Miami Ransom Everglades (8-1, 2A) Miami True North Classical Academy (9-3, 1A), Pembroke Pines Charter (6-4, 5A), Pembroke Pines Flanagan (5-6-1, 6A), Pompano Beach Blanche Ely (9-3, 5A), Southwest Ranches Archbishop McCarthy (9-0, 4A), Sunrise Piper (5-4, 6A), Weston Cypress Bay (8-3, 7A).

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