By the time Christmas rolls around this year, Jamie DeMoney will have scoured more than 2,000 DVDs of high school football games sent to him by coaches nationwide. During the course of the upcoming 2010 season, Dallas Jackson will speak to an average of nearly 200 coaches a month. DeMoney and Jackson work for different entities, but all of their work and effort is aimed at one common goal – determining which high school football team is the best in America. Last year, they reached the same conclusion when unbeaten Don Bosco Prep of Ramsey (NJ) was crowned the national champion for the first time. DeMoney of PrepNation.com and Jackson of RivalsHigh.com agreed that Don Bosco Prep earned the recognition as No. 1 in the nation. They were not alone in their assessment. So did USA Today and MaxPreps. Even Ned Freeman’s unique computerized poll placed the New Jersey team atop its
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