A look at the Indiana Football Coaches Association preseason poll

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The high school football regular season in the state of Indiana begins this week, and there are plenty of big-time matchups taking place this Friday night.

Of course, every team enters the 2026 season with hopes of playing for a state championship by year’s end.

The Indiana Football Coaches Association (IFCA) recently released its preseason poll ahead of the upcoming season. Here is a look at the poll (first place votes in parenthesis):

Class 6A

• 1. Brownsburg (10)
• T2. Carmel
• T2. Westfield
• T4. Center Grove
• T4. Warren Central
• 6. Lawrence North
• 7. Crown Point
• T8. Fort Wayne Carroll
• T8. Hamilton Southeastern
• 10. Penn

Class 5A

• 1. New Palestine (9)
• 2. Cathedral (1)
• 3. Bloomington South
• 4. Lafayette Jeff
• 5. Concord
• 6. Fort Wayne Snider
• 7. Plainfield
• 8. Castle
• 9. Floyd Central
• 10. Warsaw

Class 4A

• 1. East Central (4)
• 2. Roncalli (1)
• T3. Fort Wayne Dwenger (4)
• T3. Bishop Chatard (1)
• 5. East Noble
• 6. Mishawaka
• 7. Yorktown
• T8. Hobart
• T8. South Bend St. Joseph
• T10. Fort Wayne Luers
• T10. Heritage Hills

Class 3A

• 1. Andrean (3)
• 2. Gibson Southern (2)
• 3. Lawrenceburg (1)
• 4. Evansville Memorial (4)
• 5. Adams Central
• 6. Tri-West
• 7. Evansville Mater Dei
• 8. Twin Lakes
• 9. Mississinewa
• 10. Maconaquah

Class 2A

• 1. Brownstown Central (3)
• T2. Lutheran (1)
• T2. Lapel
• 4. Cascade (3)
• 5. South Putnam (3)
• 6. Linton-Stocktown
• 7. Eastern (Greenstown)
• 8. Providence
• 9. Knox
• T10. Eastside
• T10. Rochester

Class A

• 1. Riverton Parke (3)
• 2. Pioneer (6)
• 3. South Adams (1)
• 4. Milan
• 5. North Judson
• 6. Springs Valley
• 7. Frontier
• 8. Sheridan
• 9. North Decatur
• 10. Lafayette Central Catholic

To see the entire poll, including the teams that “received votes,” click here.

Be sure to watch The Zone on Friday at 11:08 p.m. EDT on WISH-TV for highlights from Week 1 matchups across Central Indiana. Click here to see which matchups WISH-TV will have highlights from on the show Friday night.

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