New Mexico high school football computer rankings (9/27/2024)

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every classification of New Mexico high school football for Week 6

A Volcano Vista player intercepts a pass during a high school football on Friday, August 18, 2023, at the Field of Dreams. / Meg Potter/Sun-News / USA TODAY NETWORK

Week 6 of the 2024 New Mexico high school football season is here and High School on SI is debuting its first computer rankings of the season in the state.

Two undefeated squads are leading the latest Class 6A rankings, with the Volcano Vista Hawks coming in at the No. 1 spot and the Centennial Hawks right behind them at No. 2. Volcano Vista has been dominate thus far, with their only close call coming again Las Cruces early in the season.

A quick look into the Class 5A rankings show undefeated Lovington in the top spot.

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.

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

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Here are SBLive's latest New Mexico football computer rankings, as of September 25, 2024:

NEW MEXICO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS

CLASS 6A | CLASS 5A

CLASS 4A | CLASS 3A

CLASS 2A | CLASS 8 MAN

CLASS 6 MAN

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