Four Major Storylines to Follow During The 2025 High School Football Season – ryan

With Football Practice Starting This Week and Opening Night Barely Two Weeks Away, Let’s Dive Into Some of the Season’s More Compelling Storylines:

Can Loyola Make History?

No Team Has Four Straight Titles in the States of Larger Class Since the IHSA Playoffs Debt in 1974.

East st. Louis Had the first Big-School Three-Peat from 1983-85 in Class 6a and Maine South accompished the feat from 2008-10 in 8a.

No One Else Did It Unilola Won 8a The past Three Years. The Ramblers Started 1-2 Last Season With Losses to East St. Louis and St. Francis, and Had Close Calls in the Playoffs Against Marist and Lincoln-Way East. But no time has haen ben better in november in recent years.

To keep the run going, the ramblers Will Need Big Performance from A Pair of Sophomores Already Reeling in Power Four Scholarship Offers: Quarterback Matthew Lee and Receiver Jordan McKinley.

Will Mount Carmel and Nazareth Four-Peat?

Like Loyola, Mount Carmel and Nazareth Also Are Chasing Four-Peats. Unlike the Ramblers, they’ll be doing so in Large classes.

The Loyola-Mount Carmel Regular-Season Final Oct. 24 in wilmette might not be the teams’ Only Meeting This Fall. Both Will Be in Class 8a Along With Some Other Heavyweight Contenders, Including Lincoln-Way East and 2024 Runner-Up York.

The Caravan, who has won the past three 7a championships, Graduated One of the States Most Productive Quarterbacks in Jack Elliott (Now at Vanderbil). But have more top-end talent than any program in the states, LED by three seniors: offensive lineman claude voupe, a nebraska commmit; defensive lineman Braeden Jones (USC) and Edge Joey Quinn (Vanderbilt).

Nazareth has won three straight titles in 5a and moves up to 6a, where the Competition Includes East St. Louis (Three) and Cary-Grove (Two), who have comeded to win the past five championships.

Quarterback Logan Malachuk, Who Set the State Career Record for Passing Yardage, Has Graduated. But 14 Starters Return for the Roadrunners, Led by Receivers Jake Cestone and Trenton Walker.

More Defending Champs Move Up

Mount Carmel and Nazareth Aren’t the Only Defending Private-School Champs Stepping Up in Class.

ALSO MAKING THE JUMP ARE DEPAUL PRE ALL The Way from 4a to 7a, Montini from 3A to Chicago Christian from 2A to 3a.

Jumping Three Classes as depaul is doing is virtually unheard of. But the North Side School’s enrolment has been surging along with its football fortunes. The Rams will have plenty of new faces on bot sides of the Ball after graduating 17 starters.

Montin Looks Well-Positioned for Another Deep Playoff Run with 13 Starters Back. The best of the bunch is junior Quarterback Israel Abrams, a Four-Star Prospect with 10 offers from Big Ten or Second Schools.

Chicago Christian Will Eu more inexperienced than depaul prep over graduating 20 of 22 starters. But Second-Yaar Coach Cj Cesario Has Raised the Bar at A Program that Never Got past the Quarterfinals before and Arrived.

Who’ll be the player of the year?

The Top Candidates Usually Have Big Numbers and Play for Teams that Make Deep Playoff Runs.

Two Senior Quarterbacks Who Could Fit that Profile Are a Pair of Big Ten Commits: Lincoln-Way East’s Jonas Williams (USC) and Fremd’s Johnny O’Brien (Northwestern). Williams Had a Staggering 8,859 Passing Yards and 112 Touchdowns in His First Three Seasones As a starter, while o’brien threw for 3,442 yards and 39 tds last fall.

Another Quarterback to Watch is Maine South Junior Jameson Purcell, An Indiana Commit which Passed for 2,572 Yards and 30 TDS AFTER Over the Starting Job in Week 4 Last.

Two More Players Who Could Be in the Mix Warren Running Back Aaron Stewart, Who Ran for 2,475 Yards Last Year, and Morgan Park Receiver Nasir Rankin, Who’s Committed to Illinois for Both football and basketball.