Old Line
Rankings
Every Maryland public high school team, ranked by who they beat and how. Refreshed every night from MPSSAA results.
Rankings
Football
Fall 2026 · 179 teams · through Oct 10
Quince Orchard4A
Mergenthaler4A/3A
Oakdale3A
Howard2A
Paul Laurence Dunbar2A/1A
Fort Hill1A
Boys Soccer
Fall 2026 · 191 teams · through Oct 12
Leonardtown4A
Franklin3A
C. Milton Wright2A
Allegany1A
Girls Soccer
Fall 2026 · 179 teams · through Oct 12
Broadneck4A
Stephen Decatur3A
Queen Anne's2A
Mountain Ridge1A
Basketball
Boys & girls · coming winter 2026–27Lacrosse
Boys & girls · coming spring 2027Why "Old Line"?
Maryland's nickname comes from the Maryland Line, the state's regiments of regular Continental soldiers in the American Revolution. At the Battle of Brooklyn (Long Island) on August 27, 1776, a few hundred Marylanders, remembered as the "Maryland 400," attacked the British again and again so the rest of the American army could escape. Most of them were killed or captured.
Their discipline made the Marylanders known as the "old line" by the end of the war, and over the 1800s the phrase became a nickname for the whole state: the Old Line State. More from the Maryland State Archives →