Oh, if only determining the best high school football teams didn't require the indefensible calculus of the Bill Born Power Index -- a mystery formula, locked in a Robbinsville vault, that factors in wins, losses, imaginary point spreads, the previous year's record, the offensive coordinator's SAT scores and, an investigation might show, whether a team drinks red or green Gatorade.
If only there was a simpler way ...
What's that you say, Hank Gola? It wasn't always that way?
Turns out, there was a time, analytics nerds, when national championship games were made like prize fights: Promoters looked at high school football teams throughout the country and created a sexy matchup - of teams, styles and storylines.