Northeast high school football rankings: Bergen Catholic, St. Joseph Regional ready for top-ranked clash

The biggest week of the New Jersey high school football season has arrived

Delbarton (New Jersey) enters the Northeast regional high school football rankings at No. 9 following its fourth consecutive victory.

No. 1 Bergen Catholic and No. 3 St. Joseph Regional got the week off to prepare for the Garden State’s game of the year in Oradell, N.J., on Saturday. 

SBLive's Northeast regional high school football rankings include teams from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Maine.

NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOTBALL RANKINGS

1, Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.) (5-1; National No. 18)

2, St. John’s Prep (Danvers, Mass.) (5-0)

3, St. Joseph Regional (Montvale, N.J.) (5-1)

4, Catholic Memorial (West Roxbury, Mass.) (4-1)

5, St. Anthony’s (Melville, N.Y.) (5-1)

6, Red Bank Catholic (N.J.) (5-1)

7, Cardinal Hayes (Bronx, N.Y.) (5-1)

8, Leavitt (Turner, Maine) (6-0)

9, Delbarton (Morristown, N.J.) (5-1)

10, Bedford (N.H.) (6-0)

Honorable mention: Archbishop Stepinac (White Plains, N.Y.) (4-2), DePaul Catholic (Wayne, N.J.) (3-3), Donovan Catholic (Toms River, N.J.) (5-1), Passaic Tech (Wayne, N.J.) (7-0), Pinkerton (Derry, N.H.) (6-0)

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