As the start of the 2025 Ohio high school football regular season approaches, we're going to spend the next few weeks looking ahead through assorted Akron-area preseason polls .

Your votes will determine the Akron-area's preseason picks as the top players and teams for the season ahead.

We continue this week with who you think will be the best team of the 2025 season. Each poll will be live until 5 p.m. Aug. 21. The winner will be announced in the morning Aug. 22 on BeaconJournal.com .

Teams are listed alphabetically and the poll follows a look at the candidates.

Who will be Akron-area high school football's best team in 2025?

Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy (10-3 in 2024)

The Royals return 11 starters off last season's team, which had the longest postseason run in school

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