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Beth Long’s Super 25 football rankings

By  Beth Long
   
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Prairie Ridge’s Zach Gulbransen (32) Jackson Willis (4) and Samson Evans (22) wait for the play. Huntley September 1, 2017. Worsom Robinson/For the Sun-Times.

1. Lincoln-Way East (2-0) 3

Friday at Andrew

2. Prairie Ridge (2-0) 2

Friday vs. Crystal Lake Central

3. Maine South (1-1) 1

Friday vs. Fremd

4. Phillips (2-0) 4

Saturday vs. Simeon at Gately

5. Loyola (1-1) 5

Saturday vs. No. 20 Mount Carmel

6. Lyons (2-0) 6

Friday at York

7. Homewood-Flossmoor (2-0) 7

Friday at Stagg

8. Marist (2-0) 8

Friday vs. Carmel

9. Barrington (2-0) 11

Friday at New Trier

10. Glenbard West (1-1) 10

Friday at Addison Trail

11. Lake Zurich (2-0) 13

Friday vs. Waukegan

12. Naperville Central (2-0) 16

Friday vs. Metea Valley

13. Nazareth (2-0) 17

Friday vs. No. 23 Notre Dame

14. St. Charles East (2-0) 18

Friday at Geneva

15. Batavia (2-0) 19

Friday vs. Streamwood

16. Stevenson (1-1) 12

Friday at Lake Forest

17. Huntley (1-1) 14

Friday at Dundee-Crown

18. Palatine (1-1) 20

Friday at Evanston

19. Oak Park-River Forest (2-0) NR

Friday vs. Hinsdale Central

20. Mount Carmel (2-0) 22

Saturday at Loyola

21. Lake Park (2-0) NR

Friday at DeKalb

22. Neuqua Valley (1-1) 21

Friday vs. Waubonsie Valley

23. Notre Dame (2-0) NR

Friday at No. 13 Nazareth

24. Richards (1-1) 23

Friday at Shepard

25. St. Rita (2-0) NR

Friday at Providence

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