Michael O’Brien’s Super 25 high school football…

Michael O’Brien’s Super 25 high school football rankings for Week 3

Lincoln-Way East’s DJ Richardson (7) holds the ball aloft after scoring the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter against Batavia. (Allen Cunningham/For the Sun-Times)

After two weeks of football, the top five teams feel solid.

The second half of the top ten is quite a bit shakier. Those teams have plenty to prove over the next several weeks and could be supplanted by any of the teams below them.

I may be underestimating the Marist/Brother Rice/Glenbard West group. Time will tell.

There were three new additions this week. The RedHawks, Lockport and Libertyville join. Marist gets in after beating Brother Rice. It lost to Glenbard West in a very close game in Week 1.

Lockport has beaten Plainfield Noth and Wheaton North on the road. Libertyville knocked off Lemont and Richards at home.

Prospect, Warren and Nazareth drop out. The Blue Devils and Roadrunners were both preseason top 10 teams and they’ve lost all of their games to ranked teams, but they are gone for now at 0-2.

Oswego and Fenwick just missed the cut this week.

Week 3’s Super 25
With record and last week’s ranking

1. Mount Carmel (2-0) 1
Friday at Notre Dame

2. Lincoln-Way East (2-0) 2
Friday vs. Neuqua Valley

3. Loyola (2-0) 4
Friday at No. 18 Marist

4. York (2-0) 5
Friday at Downers Grove South

5. Batavia (1-1) 3
Friday at Lake Park

6. St. Charles North (2-0) 6
Friday at No. 24 Wheaton North

7. Prairie Ridge (2-0) 8
Friday at Hampshire

8. Kankakee (2-0) 9
Friday at Thornridge

9. Maine South (1-1) 10
Friday vs No. 10 Palatine

10. Palatine (1-1) 12
Friday at No. 9 Maine South