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Beth Long’s preseason Super 25 football rankings

By  Beth Long
   
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1. Homewood-Flossmoor

2. Glenbard West

3. Nazareth

4. Maine South

5. Simeon

6. Lincoln-Way East

7. Libertyville

8. Naperville Central

9. Mount Carmel

10. Stevenson

11. Joliet Catholic

12. Bolingbrook

13. Montini

14. Loyola

15. Providence

16. Hinsdale Central

17. Hinsdale South

18. Barrington

19. Phillips

20. Neuqua Valley

21. Cary-Grove

22. Lyons

23. New Trier

24. Glenbard North

25. St. Francis

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