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Beth Long’s Super 25 football rankings

By  Beth Long
   
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Lincoln-Way East’s Mason Keenan (44) gives Homewood-Flossmoor’s Justin Olokun (25) a stiff arm. Worsom Robinson/For the Sun-Times.

With record and last week’s ranking

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

Friday vs. Lockport

2. Prairie Ridge (6-0) 2

Friday at Hampshire

3. Maine South (5-1) 3

Friday vs. Glenbrook South

4. Phillips (6-0) 4

Friday vs. Raby

5. Loyola (5-1) 5

Saturday vs. Leo

6. Marist (6-0) 8

Friday vs. Nazareth

7. Glenbard West (5-1) 13

Saturday vs. Hinsdale Central

8. Homewood-Flossmoor (5-1) 7

Friday vs. Bradley-Bourbonnais

9. Lake Zurich (6-0) 9

Friday at Stevenson

10. Nazareth (6-0) 11

Friday at Marist

11. Barrington (6-0) 12

Saturday vs. Hoffman Estates

12. Lyons (5-1) 6

Friday at Downers Grove North

13. Batavia (6-0) 14

Friday vs. South Elgin

14. Stevenson (5-1) 15

Friday vs. Lake Zurich

15. Huntley (5-1) 16

Friday vs. Crystal Lake Central

16. Naperville Central (5-1) 10

Friday vs. Naperville North at North Central

17. St. Charles North (5-1) 17

Friday at Streamwood

18. Hinsdale Central (5-1) 19

Saturday at Glenbard West

19. Neuqua Valley (5-1) 18

Friday at Wheaton North

20. Hoffman Estates (6-0) 20

Saturday at Barrington

21. St. Charles East (4-2) 21

Friday vs. Larkin

22. South Elgin (6-0) 22

Friday at Batavia

23. Lincoln-Way Central (5-1) 23

Friday at Waubonsie Valley

24. Bolingbrook (5-1) 24

Friday vs. Thornridge

25. Notre Dame (5-1) 25

Friday at Marian Catholic

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