It is becoming more competitive each year for football scholarships. More high school students are looking for athletic scholarships as a means to play for college than before. Athletes area also becoming better educated to the proper way to get recruited to play college football. No longer can you sit on the couch and wait for a coach to call you. Athletes are starting earlier in the high school career preparing and laying the foundation for a scholarship.

There are is approximately 1.1 million high school football players in the United States. Of those, just over 300,000 are seniors. Each one is possible competition for the approximate 17,500 freshman roster spots in the NCAA. This means about 6 in every 100 high school seniors will play college football. The numbers are even less for those who will get a scholarship.

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