Thanksgiving:

Wednesday night:

Eastern beats Washington Twp. 27-21 in OT. These teams always play a competitive game.

Thursday:

Mainland barely beats Egg Harbor Twp. 30-27

Clayton upsets Pitman 14-7

Kingsway upsets Clearview 27-6

Overbrook upsets Lindenwold 20-12

Riveride upsets Florence 6-0

Woodbury comes form behind to beat Gateway 19-14

Woodstown plays a close one and beats Salem 22-20

Friday:

Paulsboro beats West Deptford 19-10; Any defense that can hold Glassboro to 3 TDs and then hold WD to a TD and a FG is EXCELLENT!!!!

Hammonton crushes St. Joe's 27-0; Hammonton is a good team, but not an elite team and St. Joe's will significantly drop in my rankings

Moorestown beats Holy Cross 28-7; both of HC's defeats have been by big margins

St. Augustine beats Buena 38-28; Buena put up a good fight


Group 1 finalists: Glassboro and Penns Grove both win - Glassboro is 11-0 and one of the eleite of South Jersey; Paulsboro which is not in the finals is another elite team; Penns Grove would be a 2nd tier team

Group 2 finalists: Delsea loses to Williamstown; West Deptford lost - WD is 9-1 and one of the elite teams; Buena, Delsea and Haddonfield would be 2nd tier teams;

Group 3 finalists: Shawnee and Hammonton both win - Shawnee is 11-0 and one of the elite teams; Cumberland, Hammonton, Ocean City, Triton would be on the 2nd tier

Group 4 finalists: Mainland survives a scare and is 11-0; Southern wins also - Mainland is 11-0 and is of the elite teams; they should learn from thier close call and be even better. There are a few elite teams in Group 4 - Cherokee, Williamstown, Washington Twp., Eastern; Egg Harbor is close to the elite but I will put them 2nd tier along with Absegami and Atlantic City

Non-Public Group 2: Holy Cross lost to Moorestown 28-7; Hudson Catholic did not play - Holy Cross and St. Joe's would be 2nd tier teams

Non-Public 3 and 4: no South Jersey teams survived here - St. Augustine, Camden Catholic and Gloucester Catholic could be put among the elite; Holy Spirit would be on the second tier

So my elite in alpha order: (none of these teams has lost to anyone from South Jersey who is not also on this list except for Eastern)

Camden Catholic

Cherokee

Eastern

Glassboro

Gloucester Catholic

Mainland

Paulsboro

Shawnee

St. Augustine

Washington Twp.

West Deptford

Williamstown

the 2nd tier:

Absegami

Atlantic City

Buena

Cumberland

Delsea

Haddonfield

Hammonton

Holy Cross

Holy Spirit

Ocean City

Penns Grove

St. Joe's

Triton

So there are my top 25 in no particular order with plenty of room for debate.

Small groups:

Glassboro clearly is on top with Paulsboro and West Deptford right behind.

CC and GC make the top 5 easy to figure out.

After those 5, it gets muddled:

Delsea, St. Joe's and Buena lost this week to highly regarded teams while Holy Spirit, Penns Grove and Haddonfield won. Holy Cross lost to a good team, but a team that was having a down year.

Holy Spirit beat Buena earlier in the season as did St. Joe's; Buena beat PG; Delsea beat Haddonfield; Haddonfield beat Woodbury by 9 more than PG did. St. Joe's has 5 losses and did not look good against Hammonton and has to be ranked below a team they beat simply because of all of their losses and the big loss this week.

So: HC, HS, Delsea, Buena, Haddonfield, PG, St. Joe's

Next:

Gloucester, Woodbury, Haddon Heights, Palmyra, Delran

They all either won against a lower ranked team or lost to a higher ranked team. I keep them in the same order.

Bishop Eustace, Florence, Pennsville all lost

Bridgeton and Burlington Twp. did not play

I'll move Bridgeton up just on a hunch and leave the others in their previous order.

Haddon Twp. beat Audubon and moves ahead.

Gateway had a good showing in their loss to Woodbury and stays just behind HT and Audubon.

New Egypt won and maintains their ranking.

Camden moves up ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Maple Shade.

Collingswood moves past Schalick and Sterling. Schalick drops below Sterling after being soundly defeated.

Willingboro beat Cinnaminson which beat Riverside and they stay as ranked, but give credit to Riverside for beating Florence!

Pemberton, Lindenwold, Middle Twp., Woodstown, Pitman, Salem, Overbrook

Overbrook moves above Lindenwold, otherwise they stay the same.

Pleasantville, Bordentown, Burlington city and Lower Cape May stay in order.

Clayton moves up above Wildwood based on having beat a higher ranked team despite their earlier loss to Wildwood.