Massachusetts High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Sep. 29

Massachusetts high school football season hasn’t seen any surprises as of yet unlike how the rest of the country has panned out so far.

Several of Massachusetts’ top high school football programs, including Catholic Memorial, Tabor Academy and St. John’s Preparatory School, all have remained as consistent members of the top five. Which other teams, though, join the three aforementioned teams when it comes to the latest Massachusetts Top 25 rankings?

The Massey Ratings, officially used during the BCS era, is a model that ranks sports teams by analyzing game outcomes, strength of schedule, and margin of victory.

Here is the latest Massachusetts high school football Top 25 rankings, according to Massey as of Sep. 29.

1. Catholic Memorial Knights

Catholic Memorial (2-0) are once again loaded with Power 4 talent, with a handful that’ll be making the short trip over to Boston College after their time with the Knights. Among the myriad of Boston College commitments are 2026 three-star linemen Marcelino Antunes, Mac Fitzgerald, 2027 safety Jackson Tucker and 2028 athlete Ramar Thomas.

The Knights are always in the mix when it comes to MIAA’s Division 2 classification and looked impressive in their most recent victory, 56-32, over St. Francis (N.Y.) a couple weeks ago. The Knights are back in action this week when they play Brockton on Friday night.

2. St. John’s Preparatory School Eagles

The Eagles (4-0) have one of the best sophomore quarterbacks in the country definitely helps your odds of being ranked a bit higher when it pertains to teams out of New England. For the Eagles, they have a talented young signal caller in sophomore Christopher Vargas, who is coming off a solid freshman campaign. Vargas last season threw for 1,311 yards, 17 touchdowns and only three mere interceptions. St. John’s Prep defeated Rhode Island’s previous No. 1 La Salle Academy in a 53-20 decision last week. This Friday is a bye week for the Eagles before they return to play on Oct. 10 on the road against Boston College.

3. Tabor Academy Seawolves 

Coming in at the No. 3 spot is the Tabor Academy Seawolves (3-0), whom feature one of the state’s most talented rosters bar none. The Seawolves have a bevy of Division I talent, which includes players like junior quarterback Peter Bourque (Michigan commit), Amahn Williams (UCF commit) and a pair of UCLA defensive linemen commitments in Carter Gooden and Marcus Almada, respectively.

Tabor Academy was impressive in their regular season opener, a 37-6 rout of The Williston Northampton School and then the following week dominated The Governors Academy in a 46-6 rout. Last week the Seawolves took care of business against Milton Academy in a 51-26 win.

The Seawolves have a bye week before taking on Trinity Pawling come Oct. 11.

4. Springfield Central Golden Eagles

The Golden Eagles (2-1) have been an interesting team through the first three games of the season, as this group could easily be 3-0 after losing their opener by one point to St. John’s Preparatory School, 36-35.

Since then, Springfield Central has bounced back with two straight quality victories against Mansfield and Xaverian Brothers, with the latter coming against a state championship winning team from a year ago.

Springfield Central will look to make it three consecutive wins when they take on winless Westfield (0-3) this week.

5. King Phillip Regional Warriors

King Philip Reg (4-0) opened up the season with a convincing 21-0 victory over No. 19 Walpole and then dominated Norwood, 43-0. The Warriors had themselves a close call when they just edged out Foxborough, 15-12, last week.

The Warriors are coming off another strong season in the MIAA’s Division II classification, in which they went 12-1 and reached the state championship game, losing to Catholic Memorial. With an advantageous schedule that mimics last year’s, the road back to the title game looks clear once again for the Warriors. This week, King Phillip faces No. 8 Natick (4-0) on the road in a battle of unbeaten teams.

Massachusetts High School Football Rankings: Nos. 6 – 25

6. Xaverian Brothers (2-1)
7. Scituate (3-0)
8. Natick (4-0)
9. The Williston Northampton School (2-1)
10. Dexter School (3-0) 

11. Central Catholic (2-2)
12. North Attleboro (3-1)
13. Marshfield (2-2)
14. Foxborough (2-1)
15. Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (1-1)

16. Andover (3-0)
17. Tewksbury Memorial (3-0)
18. Duxbury (2-1)
19. Canton (4-0)
20. Milton Academy (1-1)

21. Milford (3-1)
22. Milton (4-0)
23. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional (3-0)
24. Deerfield Academy (2-1)
25. Methuen (2-1)

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