Washington high school football computer rankings (11/12/2024)

Compare SBLive's final data-driven rankings with the guiding WIAA RPI rankings

Arlington wide receiver Jake Willis is a key cog in Eagles' passing attack. / Photo by Todd Milles

With this being the first week of WIAA playoff games (Class 4A-1A) in Washington high school football, SBLive WA is releasing its eighth, and final, set of computer rankings for 2024.

Here are the top teams in each classification - both from SBLive's computer rankings and the WIAA's RPI rankings.

Rankings below are updated through Nov. 11:

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CLASS 4A RANKINGS

1. Arlington (9-1) ... No. 6 in WIAA RPI

2. Mead (9-1) .... No. 7 in WIAA RPI

3. Skyview (7-3) ... No. 5 in WIAA RPI

4. Gonzaga Prep (10-0) ... No. 3 in WIAA RPI

5. Graham-Kapowsin (7-3) ... No. 9 in WIAA RPI

6. Lake Stevens (7-3) ... No. 10 in WIAA RPI

7. Camas (10-0) ... No. 1 in WIAA RPI

8. Puyallup (6-4) ... No. 15 in WIAA RPI

9. Sumner (9-1) ... No. 2 in WIAA RPI

10. Richland (7-3) ... No. 17 in WIAA RPI

REST OF CLASS 4A RANKINGS

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CLASS 3A RANKINGS

1. Bellevue (9-0) ... No. 1 in WIAA RPI

2. O'Dea (9-0) ... No. 2 in WIAA RPI

3. Eastside Catholic (8-1) ... No. 5 in WIAA RPI

4. Monroe (9-1) ... No. 4 in WIAA RPI

5. Decatur (10-0) ... No. 3 in WIAA RPI

6. Lakes (9-1) ... No. 9 in WIAA RPI

7. Mercer Island (10-0) ... No. 6 in WIAA RPI

8. Lincoln of Tacoma (8-2) ... No. 8 in WIAA RPI

9. Central Valley (7-3) ... No. 13 in WIAA RPI

10. Mount Tahoma (6-4) ... No. 21 in WIAA RPI

REST OF CLASS 3A RANKINGS

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CLASS 2A RANKINGS

1. Lynden (8-1) ... No. 3 in WIAA RPI

2. Archbishop Murphy (8-1) ... No. 5 in WIAA RPI

3. Franklin Pierce (10-0) ... No. 2 in WIAA RPI

4. Orting (9-1) ... No. 6 in WIAA RPI

5. Sehome (7-3) ... No. 10 in WIAA RPI

6. Fife (7-3) ... No. 17 in WIAA RPI

7. Othello (9-1) ... No. 8 in WIAA RPI

8. W.F. West (9-1) ... No. 11 in WIAA RPI

9. Bainbridge (8-2) ... No. 9 in WIAA RPI

10. Olympic (8-2) ... No. 13 in WIAA RPI

REST OF CLASS 2A RANKINGS

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CLASS 1A RANKINGS

1. Seton Catholic (10-0) ... No. 1 in WIAA RPI

2. Royal (10-0) ... No. 2 in WIAA RPI

3. La Center (9-1) ... No. 4 in WIAA RPI

4. Nooksack Valley (8-2) ... No. 3 in WIAA RPI

5. King's (7-3) ... No. 8 in WIAA RPI

6. Zillah (8-2) ... No. 10 in WIAA RPI

7. Life Christian Academy (8-1) ... No. 6 in WIAA RPI

8. Montesano (7-3) ... No. 9 in WIAA RPI

9. Lynden Christian (6-4) ... No. 7 in WIAA RPI

10. Cashmere (9-1) ... No. 5 in WIAA RPI

REST OF CLASS 1A RANKINGS

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CLASS 2B RANKINGS: Okanogan is No. 1 at SBLive; Asotin No. 1 in WIAA RPI.

CLASS 1B RANKINGS: Pomeroy is No. 1 at SBLive; Liberty Christian No. 1 in WIAA RPI.

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High School on SI's formula was created using its own linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm in order to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.

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