Can the best High School teams beat/hold their own against the worst College Teams?

The size difference between HS and College is way too much. Maybe a place like IMG, but for the most part there are players on the best HS teams that wouldnt even make a practice squad at most schools

They might hold their own for a quarter or two.

Nope

As bad as those teams are, most all those starters are scholarship players at the FBS level. Meanwhile, even on the best HS teams, the vast majority of players will not earn a single FBS scholarship.

I would think the competition level would be DIII. I think the best high school teams could compete with the bottom of DIII pretty readily. Many high schools in Texas already have better facilities than a lot of small colleges now.

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As bad as those teams are, most all those starters are scholarship players at the FBS level. Meanwhile, even on the best HS teams, the vast majority of players will not earn a single FBS scholarship.

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Not so sure.

The best players on schools like IMG or Grayson or even Marietta HS last year are better than the best players on low end P5 schools and almost all the starters at each of those schools had D1 offers.

They obviously wouldn't have the depth or maturity on the LOS but skill matchups would be interesting.They could survive a qtr or two IMO.

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would think the competition level would be DIII. I think the best high school teams could compete with the bottom of DIII pretty readily

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The best HS programs would crush DIII schools.

Skill positions would be a huge mismatch.

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Can the best High School teams beat/hold their own against the worst College Teams?

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absolutely not

Think about it this way, it's news when any FCS team beats an FBS team. They usually get crushed, and those are all division 1 scholarship athletes. Even at the best high school programs, the vast majority of the players on those teams are not playing football in college at any level. The chances of a high school team beating a bad college team is less likely than a college team beating an NFL team.

Against power 5 teams? Hell fricking no. For instance, the kansas jayhawks would frick over img academy without question.

I've always wondered what people don't understand about it with questions like these. You are talking about a football team in college that has older, more mature players. Not only are they more mature, they are bigger, faster and stronger than high school kids. College teams at the power 5 level have a roster full of players that were all district at least in their respective areas and most of the time they're all state or better. It's just a different level of ball. The biggest and most glaring differences between hs and college teams would be at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. The hs teams would get dominated at the line of scrimmage.

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Correct . Right here in Alliance ,Ohio is a D3 program called Mount Union . They are the class of their league winning the conf title every year and always winning or playing in the D3 Natty .NOW , if you take the bottom feeder schools from the conference ( OAC ) ,like a Capital or Otterbein ,they would have their hands full with the top catholic powerhouses in Ohio like Akron Hoban ,Cincinnati Moeller and Cleve .St Ignatius for example ...These high schools could beat the bad D3 college teams

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DIII programs are almost High school like, some worse. MU feast on schools that dont even think about FB. Essentially club sports. Otterbein, John Carroll, Willington, etc...

He's not talking about "most" HS teams.
He's referring to the best in the country.
IMG,Grayson,Westlake,etc

HS FB is no where close to what it was 20 or even 10 years ago.

Almost all these top schools are all star teams made up of the best players that all know each other from summer camps and almost all of their starters have D1 offers.