This year in Illinois, 27 varsity football teams finished the regular season undefeated, winning all nine of their games.
Congtratulations to the following teams for turning in an undefeated regular season:
- Abingdon
- Arcola
- Carrollton
- Carterville
- Cary-Grove in Cary
- Christian Life in Rockford
- Eastland-Pearl City Coop in Pearl City
- Fieldcrest in Minonk
- Geneseo
- Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn
- Greenville
- Highland Park
- Lemont Township
- Maine South in Park Ridge
- Nazareth Academy in LaGrange Park
- Newman Central Catholic in Sterling
- Notre Dame in Peoria
- Rockford Lutheran in Rockford
- Sacred Heart-Griffin in Springfield
- South Shore Int’l in Chicago
- St. Edward in Elgin
- Stark County in Toulon
- Stevenson in Lincolnshire
- University H.S. in Normal
- Uplift in Chicago
- Williamsville
- Wilmington
All the undefeated won their first round playoff game and are now 10-0 except for South Shore International, which is not eligible for the IHSA playoffs because they play in a conference that does not participate in the IHSA playoffs; Greenville, which was upset in the first round, losing to Bloomington Central Catholic, 68-43; Highland Park, which was upset by Fenwick, 17-10; University High School in Normal, which was upset by Morris in a game played at ISU’s Hancock Stadium, 21-14; and Chicago’s Uplift Community, which lost to Hales Franciscan, 40-6.
Last year, 30 teams finished the regular season undefeated. But unlike last year, the undefeated teams are pretty much evenly divided among the playoff classes: With 26 undefeated teams making the playoffs, 5 are in Class 1A, 3 in 2A, 3 in 3A, 4 in 4A, 3 in 5A, 3 in 6A, 2 in 7A, and 3 in 8A.
