Illinois high school football computer rankings (9/24/2024)

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for Illinois high school football ahead of Week 5

Pawnee's Dakoda Koyne runs after the catch against Kincaid South Fork during an 8-Man football game Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. / Bill Welt / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Entering Week 5 of the Illinois high school football season, High School on SI is launching its debut computer rankings for this season.

Sycamore comes in at the top spot after starting 5-0, including a 31-6 win last week over Aurora Christian. Peoria and Libertyville are looking up at the Spartans and aim to overtake them in the rankings in the coming weeks.

SBLive's formula was created using its 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 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.

Our computer rankings, released weekly, run parallel to SBLive's human power rankings — the Power top 25 — released early each week.

Here are SBLive's latest Illinois football computer rankings, as of Sept. 24, 2024:

ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS

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High School On SI will serve as the premier destination for high school sports fans, delivering unparalleled coverage of high school athletics nationwide through in-depth stories, recruiting coverage, rankings, highlights and much more. The launch of a dedicated high school experience expands Sports Illustrated’s reach to even more local communities as fans can now truly follow athletes from “preps to the pros” on a single platform, bringing them closer to the action than ever before.

For more information, visit si.com/high-school.

-- Brady Twombly