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Beth Long’s Super 25 football rankings

By Beth Long

With record and last week’s ranking

1. Loyola (1-0) 1

Saturday vs. Maine South

2. Mount Carmel (1-0) 2

Friday at Gary West Side (Ind.)

3. Homewood-Flossmoor (1-0) 4

Friday vs Hammond (Ind.)

4. Glenbard West (1-0) 5

Friday at Hinsdale South

5. Lincoln-Way East (1-0) 6

Friday vs. Belleville West

6. Crete-Monee (1-0) 9

Friday vs. Brother Rice

7. Brother Rice (1-0) 13

Friday at Crete-Monee

8. Bolingbrook (0-1) 8

Friday at McNamara

9. Neuqua Valley (1-0) 11

Friday vs. Naperville Central

10. Marist (0-1) 3

Friday vs. Simeon

11. Maine South (1-0) 19

Saturday at No. 1 Loyola

12. Oak Park-River Forest (1-0) 12

Friday at Addison Trail

13. Nazareth (1-0) 14

Friday vs. Leo

14. Lyons (1-0) 15

Friday at Morton

15. Glenbard North (1-0) 18

Friday vs. Waubonsie Valley

16. New Trier (1-0) 17

Friday vs. Warren

17. Libertyville (1-0) 21

Friday vs. Batavia

18. Batavia (1-0) 22

Friday at Libertyville

19. Barrington (1-0) 23

Friday vs. Prospect

20. Montini (0-1) 7

Friday vs. Lake Zurich

21. Oswego East (1-0) 25

Friday vs. Romeoville

22. Palatine (1-0) NR

Friday vs. Elk Grove

23. Fenwick (1-0) (NR)

Friday vs. Bowen

24. Simeon (0-1) 24

Friday at No. 3 Marist

25. Hinsdale Central (1-0) NR

Friday vs. Downers Grove South

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