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Beth Long’s Super 25 football rankings

By Beth Long

Bolingbrook’s Anthony Williams Jr. scores against Homewood-Flossmoor. Worsom Robinson/For the Sun-Times.

With record and last week’s ranking

1. Lincoln-Way East (4-0) 1

Friday at Lincoln-Way Central

2. Prairie Ridge (4-0) 2

Friday vs. Bartlett

3. Maine South (3-1) 3

Friday vs. Evanston

4. Phillips (4-0) 4

Friday vs. Vocational

5. Loyola (3-1) 5

Saturday vs. Fenwick

6. Lyons (4-0) 6

Friday at Leyden

7. Homewood-Flossmoor (4-0) 7

Friday at Lincoln-Way West

8. Marist (4-0) 8

Friday at Marian Catholic

9. Lake Zurich (4-0) 9

Friday at Warren

10. Naperville Central (4-0) 10

Friday vs. Wheaton-Warrenville South

11. Nazareth (4-0) 11

Friday vs. Benet

12. Barrington (4-0) 12

Friday vs. Fremd

13. Glenbard West (3-1) 13

Friday at Downers Grove North

14. Batavia (4-0) 15

Friday vs. No. 19 St. Charles East

15. Stevenson (3-1) 16

Friday at Zion-Benton

16. Huntley (3-1) 17

Friday vs. Cary-Grove

17. Naperville North (4-0) 19

Friday at Glenbard North

18. St. Charles North (3-1) NR

Friday vs. Glenbard East

19. St. Charles East (3-1) 14

Friday at No. 14 Batavia

20. Mount Carmel (3-1) 20

Friday at St. Rita

21. Neuqua Valley (3-1) 21

Friday vs. Thornwood

22. Hinsdale Central (3-1) 23

Friday at York

23. West Aurora (4-0) 24

Saturday at South Elgin

24. Hoffman Estates (3-0) 25

Friday vs. Conant

25. Bolingbrook (3-1) NR

Friday vs. Bradley-Bourbonnais

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