2024 OHIO FOOTBALL TOP 40 STUDENT SECTION PRESEASON RANKINGS

In 2015, yours truly began covering Student Sections in Orange County, California. We expanded to Southern California in 2017 and in 2021, we added four more states and added 15 more states. We went to 40 states two years ago.

We went to all 50 states in winter of 2023. No one has ever done that before…until now!

This is still a one-man operation for the most part, but we have some help with some partners on Instagram like OC Student Sections, Stadium Geeks, Maryland Student Section Rater, NorCal Student Sections and many more.

I know that Student Sections have a lot of work to do to get the students to the games to cheer on their classmates and go along with the theme and make sure they don’t cause trouble. These student sections deserve recognition.

We will kick off the Student Section season with Preseason Football Student Section Rankings. REMEMBER, this is a PREVIEW. It is merely a prediction. The real rankings come out in November or December. 

If you feel your student section isn’t ranked high enough or not ranked at all, let us know and we’ll keep a close eye on them.

Every week, we will also have Student Section of the Week for each state. Once you win Student Section of the Week, you can’t win it again, but you still have to battle for the top spot in your state and perhaps the Nation as we will also name a Football Student Section National Champion. 

We continue with the 2024 Football Student Section Season with a preview of Ohio.

Ohio has some solid Student Sections and we discovered more Student Sections recently. This state might get even deeper this fall. Will one of these Student Sections take down one of the Nations best? We’ll find out in a few months!

Last Football season, we had Centerville Herd as the top Football Student Section in Ohio. The Herd was ranked pretty low in last season preseason rankings and they weren’t happy about it and proved me wrong (which is the goal by the way, I enjoy being proved wrong). The Herd not only took the Football Student Section State Title and at one point, were National Champion contenders. The Herd will look to battle for a National Championship this fall.

In each state, we will name one student section to look out for. A student section that doesn’t get talked about a lot by us or others and for Ohio, we have to go with the St. Xavier Bomb Squad. We discovered a whole bunch of Student Sections recently and this state got deeper. One Student Section that looks super impressive is the Bomb Squad. Definitely worthy of taking the top spot in Ohio.

Will the Bomb Squad make a big explosion and push everyone to the top or will the Herd repeat as the best in the Buckeye State? Let’s find out.

2024 OHIO FOOTBALL TOP 40 STUDENT SECTION PRESEASON RANKINGS

  1. Centerville Herd

It will be very tough for the Herd to repeat this fall. This state got deeper with talented Student Sections, but I feel that the Herd will be up to the challenge. Tough challenge, but the Herd can handle! It should be a fun battle to watch as the Herd look to repeat as Ohio best Football Student Section!

  1. St. Xavier Bomb Squad
  2. Walnut Hills Nuthouse
  3. Badin Herd
  4. Fairfield Tribe
  5. Kings Red Sea
  6. Lebanon
  7. Springboro Blue Crew
  8. Elder
  9. Maryville Pit
  10. St. Edward Madhouse
  11. Archbishop Hoban Jungle
  12. Lakota West Red Sea
  13. Loveland
  14. Monroe Hornets Nest
  15. Archbishop Moeller
  16. Oak Hills Red Sea
  17. Miamisburg Ship
  18. St. Bernard’s
  19. Northwest
  20. Springfield Den
  21. Mason Black Hole
  22. Millard Flock
  23. Wilmington
  24. Little Miami
  25. North College Hill
  26. Edison
  27. Lincoln Lions Den
  28. Tippecanoe
  29. Chaminade Julenne
  30. South Range
  31. Urbana
  32. Madison Plains Flock
  33. Fairmont
  34. Olentangy Berlin 
  35. Canal Winchester
  36. Olentangy Liberty
  37. Trotwood-Madison
  38. Mentor Nest
  39. Medina Swarm 

HONORABLE MENTION: Avon Nest, Wane Train, Grove Dawgpound, Twinsburg Paint Crew, Lake Catholic Jungle