Illinois preseason football polls released

Dana Becker

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The Associated Press has released preseason rankings for the Illinois high school football season. Among the teams ranked No. 1 are Mount Carmel, as they received all nine first-place votes in Class 8A.

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Behind Mount Carmel is Lincoln-Way East followed by Wilmette Loyola, Park Ridge Maine South, Elmhurst York, Chicago Marist, Gurnee Warren, Palatine Fremd, LaGrange Lyons and Palatine.

Batavia and Downers Grove North shared the top spot in 7A while East St. Louis (6A), Cary-Grove (5A), Lombard Montini (4A), Byron (3A), Maroa-Forsyth (2A) and Lena-Winslow (1A) are the other No. 1s in the preseason.

Here are the complete preseason rankings by the Associated Press for Illinois high school football:

Associated Press Preseason Illinois High School Football Rankings

Class 8A

  1. Chicago Mount Carmel
  2. Frankfort Lincoln-Way East
  3. Wilmette Loyola
  4. Park Ridge Maine South
  5. Elmhurst York
  6. Chicago Marist
  7. Gurnee Warren
  8. Palatine Fremd
  9. LaGrange Lyons
  10. Palatine

Class 7A

  1. Batavia
  2. (tie) Downers Grove North
  3. Chicago Brother Rice
  4. St. Charles North
  5. Arlington Heights Hersey
  6. Normal
  7. New Lenox Lincoln-Way West
  8. Bradley-Bourbonnais
  9. Edwardsville
  10. Mt. Prospect Prospect
  11. (tie) Lincoln-Way Central

Class 6A

  1. East St. Louis
  2. LaGrange Park Nazareth
  3. Chicago St. Rita
  4. Oak Park Fenwick
  5. Oak Lawn Richards
  6. Geneva
  7. Joliet Catholic
  8. Chatham Glenwood
  9. Quincy
  10. Burlington Central

Class 5A

  1. Cary-Grove
  2. Wheaton St. Francis
  3. Crystal Lake Prairie Ridge
  4. Kanakee
  5. Sycamore
  6. Peoria
  7. (tie) Chicago Morgan Park
  8. New Lenox Providence
  9. Mahomet-Seymour
  10. Lemont

Class 4A

  1. Lombard Montini
  2. Rochester
  3. Mount Zion
  4. Coal City
  5. Morris
  6. Springfield SHG
  7. Breese Central
  8. Dixon
  9. (tie) Metamora
  10. Highland

Class 3A

  1. Byron
  2. Wilmington
  3. Elmhurst IC Catholic
  4. Belleville Althoff
  5. Tolono Unity
  6. Princeton
  7. St. Joseph Ogden
  8. Williamsville
  9. Richmond-Burton
  10. Monticello

Class 2A

  1. Maroa-Forsyth
  2. Downs Tri-Valley
  3. Bismarck-Henning
  4. Farmington
  5. (tie) Taylor Ridge Rockridge
  6. Westville
  7. Seneca
  8. Pana
  9. Nashville
  10. (tie) Johnston City

Class 1A

  1. Lena-Winslow
  2. Camp Point Central
  3. Gibson City-Melvin Sibley
  4. Sterling Newman Central Catholic
  5. Dwight
  6. Carrollton
  7. LeRoy
  8. Momence
  9. Casey-Westfield
  10. Galena
  11. (tie) Stockton

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Dana Becker

Dana Becker is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He has been a sports writer since 2000, covering high school sports, the Big 12 and more for On SI, The Fort Dodge Messenger, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Cedar Rapids Gazette and others.