Sports, part of Gannett Co., Inc. and the NFL are launching the USA TODAY Sports Super 25 Girls Flag Football High School Poll. The weekly poll will rank the top 25 girls flag football teams competing in the 2024 fall season.

Pennsylvania made flag football an officially sanctioned girls' high school sport Wednesday amid a push from the commonwealth's NFL teams to encourage more female athletes to get on the field. The approval from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association -- the statewide body that governs high school athletics in the commonwealth -- makes flag football an official sport for girls in the nation's fifth-most populous state starting in the 2025-26 school year.

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) approved the rapidly growing sport the 2025-26 school year