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

Check out High School on SI's custom rankings formula for every division of Ohio high school football heading into Week 6

Sam Brown

Ziaire Stevens of Akron Wast runs the ball against Archbishop Hoban during a game in the 2023 season. The Purdue commit is one of the top running backs in Ohio in the 2024 season.
Ziaire Stevens of Akron Wast runs the ball against Archbishop Hoban during a game in the 2023 season. The Purdue commit is one of the top running backs in Ohio in the 2024 season. / Jeff Harwell, SBLive Sports

We are six weeks into the 2024 Ohio 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.

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

Which teams took the top spot in each division? Here are SBLive's latest Ohio high school football computer rankings, as of September 30, 2024:

OHIO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS

OHSAA DIVISION I | OHSAA DIVISION II

OHSAA DIVISION III | OHSAA DIVISION IV

OHSAA DIVISION V | OHSAA DIVISION VI

OHSAA DIVISION VII | OHSAA EIGHT-MAN

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

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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.  

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