Maryland High School Football Week 2 Classification Rankings

Rankings are straightforward when Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C. But this week’s surprises, most notably Team C defeating Team A situations, have thrown the entire equation into chaos.

Undefeated Mount St. Joseph and St. Mary’s-Annapolis were both stunned by unranked, multi-loss opponents. Adding to the confusion is the league crossover play from earlier weeks. For example: Concordia Prep beat Mount St. Joseph this week, yet Concordia Prep has losses to Bishop McNamara and St. Mary’s-Annapolis. Bishop McNamara, in turn, just lost to St. Mary’s Ryken, which earlier fell to Mount St. Joseph. And the cycle continues. At the top, there seems to be a fairly clear-cut group of five—maybe even six or seven—private school powers. After that, the rankings feel more like a weekly game of “who’s hot now.”

While the private school rankings received a bit of a shakeup, the MPSSAA schools pretty well held serve this week. See the classification rankings below:

STATEMENT WIN: St. Charles

Christopher Quick rushed for 161 yards and three touchdowns, and Jayden Wills completed 7 of 14 passes for 174 yards and a score as St. Charles rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit to a 26-22 win over state-ranked Patuxent. The win moves St. Charles to 3-0 and marks the most significant victory for the program since beating Atholton 22-6 in 2022, which helped the team reach the state semifinals. St. Charles, which debuted in 2014, has had only four winning seasons in the program's brief history, but now holds a 3-1 advantage in games against Patuxent — all three by 6 points or fewer.

BEHIND THE NUMBERS

The Class 3A Top 10 features the best combined record of ranked teams at 24-3. ... Perryville recently forfeited a Week 1 victory over Havre de Grace, according to the latest MPSSAA-issued results.

Private Schools

Rank	School	Record
1	St. Frances Academy	3-1
2	DeMatha	4-0
3	Archbishop Spalding	3-2
4	Good Counsel	3-1
5	McDonogh	3-1
6	Loyola Blakefield	2-2
7	Calvert Hall	2-2
8	Concordia Prep	3-2
9	Mount St. Joseph	4-1
10	Bullis	2-2
11	St. Mary's Ryken	2-2
12	Bishop McNamara	2-2
13	Georgetown Prep	1-3
14	Gilman	2-2
15	St. Mary's-AA	3-1

Class 4A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	Quince Orchard	3-0	W
2	Flowers	3-0	S
3	Wise	1-2	S
4	Paint Branch	2-1	N
5	James H. Blake	3-0	N
6	Winston Churchill	3-0	W
7	Northwest	1-2	W
8	Broadneck	0-3	E
9	Glen Burnie	3-0	E
10	Betheda-CC	1-2	N

Class 4A-3A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	North Point	3-0	E
2	Arundel	3-0	E
3	Mergenthaler Vo-Tech	2-1	N
4	Sherwood	3-0	S
5	Old Mill	3-0	E
6	Oxon Hill	3-0	S
7	Potomac	3-0	S
8	Marriotts Ridge	2-1	W
9	Urbana	2-1	W
10	Great Mills	2-1	E

Class 3A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	Milford Mill Academy	2-0	N
2	Linganore	3-0	W
3	Oakdale	2-1	W
4	Franklin	3-0	N
5	Damascus	3-0	W
6	St. Charles	3-0	S
7	Stephen Decatur	1-1	S
8	Edgewood	2-0	E
9	South River	3-0	S
10	Westminster	2-1	N

Class 2A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	Westlake	2-1	S
2	Oakland Mills	3-0	W
3	Northern-Calvert	2-1	S
4	Huntingtown	2-1	S
5	Howard	3-0	W
6	Wicomico	2-0	E
7	Douglass-PG	2-1	E
8	Glenelg	3-0	W
9	Gwynn Park	2-1	E
10	Winters Mill	3-0	N

Class 2A-1A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	Dunbar	2-1	S
2	Middletown	3-0	W
3	Calvert	3-0	E
4	Easton	3-0	E
5	Walkersville	2-1	W
6	Liberty	2-1	W
7	Williamsport	3-0	W
8	Elkton	3-0	N
9	Kent Island	1-2	E
10	Forest Park	2-1	S

Class 1A

Rank	School	Record	Region
1	Patuxent	1-2	E
2	Fort Hill	2-1	W
3	Perryville	2-1*	E
4	Boonsboro	2-1	N
5	Havre de Grace	3-0	S
6	SEED School	1-2	N
7	Patterson Mill	1-2	S
8	Allegany	1-2	W
9	Mountain Ridge	1-2	W
10	Pikesville	2-1	N

*-record reflects a forfeit loss