Thirteen games are in the books….and it looks like we expected it to back in August. There’s always heat involved with doing rankings, so it is fun to take a victory lap when things work out.
The Class 7A title game features preseason No. 1 Mount Carmel against preseason No. 4 Batavia. The Class 8A title game is preseason No. 2 Lincoln-Way East vs. preseason No. 3 Loyola. Prairie Ridge, the preseason No. 8, is in the Class 6A title game against East St. Louis.
All five teams took different roads to Champaign, but there isn’t a surpise in the bunch.
That sets up a tremendous Saturday in Champaign. The state’s two Class 8A heavyweights facing off and Mount Carmel vs. Batavia is a rematch of last seasons’s great playoff game.
East St. Louis has to be dreading facing a triple option attack once again. Can Prairie Ridge pull of another stunning win for the Fox Valley?
Week 14’s Super 25
With record and last week’s ranking
- Mount Carmel (13-0) 1
7A: vs. No. X Batavia
2. Loyola (12-1) 2
8A: vs. No. 3 Lincoln-Way East
3. Lincoln-Way East (13-0) 3
8A: vs. No. 2 Loyola
4. Batavia (10-3) 9
7A: vs. No. 1 Mount Carmel
5. Prairie Ridge (12-1) 8
6A: vs. East St. Louis
6. York (12-1) 4
Season complete
7. Lemont (12-1) 7
Season complete
8. Glenbard West (11-2) 5
Season complete
9. St. Rita (10-3) 6
Season complete
10. Nazareth (9-4) 12
5A: vs. Peoria
11. Lake Zurich (11-2) 12
Season complete
12. Sycamore (12-1) 11
Season complete
13. Maine South (9-3) 13
Season complete
14. Crete-Monee (9-3) 14
Season complete
15. St. Charles North (10-2) 15
Season complete
16. Warren (10-2) 16
Season complete
17. Lyons (9-3) 17
Season complete
18. Marist (8-3) 18
Season complete
19, Simeon (11-1) 19
Public League champs
20. Hersey (10-1) 20
Season complete
21. Providence (9-4) 22
4A: vs. Sacred Heart-Griffin
22. St. Ignatius (10-3) 21
Season complete
23. Morris (10-3) 23
Season complete
24. IC Catholic (12-1) 24
3A: vs. Williamsville
25. St. Francis (11-2) 25
Season complete
