As part of the BCG’s 2021 Football Season Preview, it has put together a Pre-Season Top Ten for the entire Big Central Football Conference. This poll is the BCG’s ballot in the Central Jersey Sports Radio Big Central Media Poll. Somerville is BCG’s pick as the Big Central pre-season number one for 2021. Last year’s record in parenthesis:
- Somerville (7-0)
- Union (4-3)
- Phillipsburg (6-1)
- North Brunswick (7-1)
- Woodbridge (5-1)
- Old Bridge (5-1)
- Edison (4-2)
- Hillsborough (4-4)
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood (5-2)
- Bernards (8-1)
Other teams considered: Watchung Hills (5-2), Piscataway*, Bridgewater-Raritan (2-3), Ridge (6-2), St. Thomas Aquinas (4-3), South Brunswick (4-3), Monroe (5-1), Cranford (6-2), Hillside (4-2), Delaware Valley (6-1), New Providence (8-1), Summit (2-3), Rahway (5-1), Sayreville (4-4), and Brearley (6-2).