As part of the BCG’s 2021 Football Season Preview, it has put together a Pre-Season Top Ten for teams in Union County. Union is BCG’s pick as this area’s pre-season number one for 2021. Last year’s record in parenthesis:
- Union (4-3)
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood (5-2)
- Cranford (6-2)
- Hillside (4-2)
- New Providence (8-1)
- Summit (2-3)
- Rahway (5-1)
- Brearley (6-2)
- Elizabeth (2-4)
- Governor Livingston (4-2)
Other teams considered: Westfield (0-2), Linden (1–4), Plainfield (2-3), Roselle Park (2-4), A.L. Johnson (1-3), and Jonathan Dayton (1-2).