Mississippi high school football computer rankings (9/30/2024)

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every division and classification of Mississippi high school football heading into Week 5

Sam Brown | Sep 30, 2024

Choctaw County (Mississippi) High School receiver Caleb Cunningham is committed to play college football at Alabama. / Austin Frayser, SBLive

We are four weeks into the 2024 Mississippi high school football season and High School on SI is rolling out its updated computer rankings for the best teams in the state.

SBLive'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.

FAQ: SBLive High School Football Computer Rankings

Which teams took the top spot in each MHSAA and MAIS classification? Here are SBLive's latest Mississippi high school football computer rankings, as of September 30, 2024:

MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS

MHSAA CLASS 7A | MHSAA CLASS 6A

MHSAA CLASS 5A | MHSAA CLASS 4A

MHSAA CLASS 3A | MHSAA CLASS 2A

MHSAA CLASS 1A

MAIS CLASS 6A | MAIS CLASS 5A

MAIS CLASS 4A | MAIS CLASS 3A

MAIS CLASS 2A | MAIS CLASS 1A

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-- Sam Brown | sam@scorebooklive.com | @sblivesports

Published Sep 30, 2024

SAM BROWN

Sam Brown covers high school sports as well as NCAA football and basketball. Sam began his professional career as a high school sports reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered boys and girls prep sports full-time and helped cover Vanderbilt football, Tennessee Titans football and Nashville Predators hockey. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a double major in journalism and communication studies and currently lives in Seattle with his girlfriend and dog.