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Top 100 Greatest New Mexico High School Football Teams

Kyle Henderson • NMPreps

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Complied by Kyle Henderson of NMPreps.com | nmpreps@yahoo.com

We bring back our very popular NMPreps.com Top 100 Greatest High School Football Teams of All-Time. It's always fun to talk about the days of the past, players of the past, and Coaches of the past. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts inside the message board .

It started back in March of 2011, the goal was simple. Put together a never before done list of the Top 100 New Mexico High School Football Teams of All-Time. It was a daunting task to say the least and it nearly took a five months of fact checking to figure out which exact 100 teams would be included. With help from New Mexico High School Football Historian Dan Ford and his latest History of New Mexico High School Football Books, I was able to narrow down the best of the best from the years gone by.

I'm a numbers guy and everyone that follows NMPreps.com knows that what I lack in writing skills, I make up for with graphs, charts, stats, etc. I devised a power ranking for each team that stood out throughout the years. Points for, points against, points scored in a season, points allowed in a season, number of shutouts in a season, number of games won, and the big one: whether or not a team won a state title at the end of the season.

Knowing that I could get all those numbers accurately that is the direction I went with the power rankings.Throughout all the feedback and e-mails I've received throughout the top 100 countdown, most has been positive, however there has been some critics commenting that the rankings are not accurate because of this and that. My answer is this: All rankings are debatable and with the system that I used, I strongly feel that these rankings are the best depiction of the top 100 teams that you'll see. The system that I used excluded no team and the same principles were used to rank each team within the top 100. I update the rankings at the end of each season.

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NMPreps.com's Top 100 All-Time Greatest Teams By Kyle Henderson

Rank	Year	High School	Record	PF/PA	Power #
1	2004	La Cueva	13-0	611-21	1,211.0
2	2003	La Cueva	13-0	606-55	1,139.0
3	1999	Las Cruces	14-0	559-98	1,018.0
4	2001	Lovington	13-0	573-120	973.0
5	1979	Santa Fe	13-0	546-100	968.0
6	1995	Lovington	14-0	555-126	955.0
7	1974	Del Norte	13-0	397-35	950.0
8	2011	Cleveland	13-0	641-218	943.0
9	2011	Aztec	13-0	626-205	924.0
10	2006	Artesia	13-0	576-185	906.0
11	1973	Clovis	14-0	478-117	897.0
12	1963	Highland	11-0	376-22	896.0
13	2005	Mayfield	14-0	430-80	885.0
14	2010	Aztec	12-1	657-181	879.0
15	1997	Goddard	13-1	442-95	877.0
16	1974	Artesia	13-0	436-88	875.0
17	1968	Artesia	12-0	492-103	972.0
18	2009	La Cueva	12-1	551-146	871.0
19	1987	Roswell	13-1	444-91	868.0
20	2009	Belen	12-1	644-137	866.0
21	1990	Lovington	13-0	406-68	864.0
22	1993	Aztec	12-1	573-98	862.0
23	1998	Artesia	13-0	502-124	861.0
24	2012	Goddard	13-0	485-122	860.0
25	1980	Eldorado	13-0	389-81	859.0
26	2001	Mayfield	13-1	476-56	855.0
27	2013	Las Cruces	12-1	588-163	853.0
28	1975	Las Cruces	13-0	460-106	851.0
29	2001	Clovis	13-0	432-81	848.0
30	2014	Rio Rancho	13-0	589-230	841.0
31	1988	Roswell	13-1	436-96	839.0
32	1990	Clovis	13-1	413-78	834.0
33	1991	Clovis	12-2	447-91	821.0
34	2008	Las Cruces	13-0	559-193	820.0
35	1966	Artesia	12-0	377-66	812.0
36	2012	Los Lunas	12-1	514-96	801.0
37	2000	Las Cruces	13-1	517-204	793.0
38	1970	Hobbs	12-1	400-96	792.0
39	2007	Artesia	11-2	612-239	787.0
40	1992	La Cueva	12-1	501-155	778.0
41	2010	Lovington	12-2	676-294	774.0
42	1993	Goddard	12-1	512-176	767.0
43	1996	Mayfield	13-1	419-143	765.0
44	1995	Mayfield	13-1	374-99	764.0
45	1980	Artesia	13-1	439-131	760.0
46	1976	Artesia	11-1	457-125	755.0
47	2012	Las Cruces	12-1	601-272	745.0
48	1999	La Cueva	10-1	481-125	743.0
49	2006	Mayfield	13-0	342-90	742.0
50	2008	Aztec	12-1	633-200	741.0
51	2013	Farmington	12-1	393-87	740.0
52	1959	Las Cruces	12-0	346-74	738.0
53	1991	Goddard	12-2	453-135	736.0
54	1997	Artesia	12-1	454-163	733.0
55	2010	Belen	12-1	555-139	731.0
56	1969	Artesia	12-1	352-79	729.0
57	2008	Goddard	12-1	544-231	727.0
58	2006	Los Alamos	11-1	459-103	726.0
59	2003	Artesia	12-1	502-214	715.0
60	1994	Artesia	12-1	449-168	708.0
61	1999	St. Pius X	12-1	435-144	703.0
62	2004	Artesia	11-2	485-176	688.0
63	2007	Mayfield	12-1	426-203	685.0
64	1955	Gadsden	10-0	346-83	684.0
65	1962	Carlsbad	11-0	283-70	682.0
66	1975	Artesia	11-1	373-119	671.0
67	2001	Artesia	11-2	519-227	669.0
68	1994	Clovis	11-2	343-94	688.0
69	2014	Artesia	12-1	564-299	663.0
70	1978	Santa Fe	11-1	421-82	662.0
71	1957	Artesia	12-0	318-117	661.0
72	2003	Mayfield	11-2	429-108	660.0
73	1988	Las Cruces	11-1	371-78	657.0
74	1994	Goddard	11-3	554-177	649.0
75	1991	Highland	11-1	409-84	647.0
76	1987	Artesia	11-2	365-141	642.0
77	2010	Goddard	11-1	444-155	629.0
78	1953	Gadsden	10-0	242-50	623.0
79	1955	Roswell	11-1	313-115	610.0
80	2011	Goddard	12-1	447-179	609.0
81	1989	Highland	12-1	312-125	607.0
82	1981	Gallup	11-1	353-98	601.0
83	1989	Goddard	10-3	346-112	600.0
84	2010	La Cueva	10-2	518-178	599.0
85	2008	Eldorado	12-1	447-175	589.0
86	1996	Artesia	11-2	549-307	586.0
87	1984	Artesia	11-1	307-105	586.0
88	2009	Manzano	10-2	538-185	582.0
89	2002	Artesia	11-1	436-163	576.0
90	1975	Eldorado	11-1	275-77	574.0
91	1976	Sandia	10-2	281-101	570.0
92	1992	Los Lunas	11-1	447-201	562.0
93	2000	Highland	11-1	429-155	561.0
94	2006	Piedra Vista	10-2	440-148	560.0
95	1982	Clovis	11-2	264-92	555.0
96	2002	Onate	11-2	434-248	540.0
97	2009	Goddard	10-3	460-232	536.0
98	2000	Roswell	10-3	395-188	528.0
99	1981	Hobbs	11-2	467-209	527.0
100	1985	Alamogordo	12-1	319-129	525.0

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Top 10 Greatest Small School Teams of All-Time

Top 15 Greatest Small School Teams

Rank	Year	High School	Record	PF/PA	Power #
1	2004	Hatch Valley	13-0	699-131	1,066.0
2	2003	Texico	12-0	506-19	1,063.0
3	1986	Animas	13-0	514-35	1,046.0
4	2012	Santa Rosa	13-0	569-89	1,017.0
5	2001	Ft. Sumner	13-0	541-71	991.0
6	2008	Ft. Sumner	11-1	534-41	989.0
7	2004	Texico	12-0	517-67	978.0
8	1991	Menual	13-0	544-98	965.0
9	1988	Animas	12-0	536-73	961.0
10	2002	Ft. Sumner	12-1	521-71	950.0
11	1989	Animas	12-0	566-119	930.0
12	2012	St. Mike's	13-0	517-100	919.0
13	1985	Animas	12-0	489-66	918.0
14	2007	Ft. Sumner	12-1	501-86	912.0
15	1981	Moriarty	13-0	447-85	890.0

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About The Top 100 Rankings

NMPreps.com Top 100 New Mexico Prep Football Teams Of All-Time List Was Compiled By Kyle Henderson the Owner and Publisher of NMPreps.com.The Rankings are based off team's final season record, points scored in a season, points allowed in a season, number of defensive shutouts in a season, margin of victory in a season, whether or not the team won the state title during that year, etc.

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