2025 BCG Season Preview – BCC Rankings – Pre-Season Strength Index

Somerville, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Phillipsburg are the Big Central Conference’s top-three ranked teams according to their 2025 Pre-Season Strength Index provided by Gridiron New Jersey.

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Earlier this week, Gridiron New Jersey came out with its pre-season strength index for all the high school football teams playing in the Garden State.  Big Central Gridiron then took the strength indexes of all the Big Central Conference teams and ranked them from 1 to 59.  Below is what BCG managed to come up with.

Rank	Team	Strength Index
1	Somerville	83.85
2	St. Thomas Aquinas	83.01
3	Phillipsburg	81.31
4	Ridge	77.06
5	Hillsborough	73.74
6	Bernards	72.40
7	Piscataway	70.80
8	Woodbridge	69.97
9	Plainfield	69.78
10	Cranford	69.59
11	New Providence	68.05
12	Old Bridge	67.88
13	Rahway	67.87
14	Westfield	67.62
15	Summit	67.60
16	Elizabeth	66.87
17	St. Joseph’s	66.62
18	Hillside	65.17
19	Linden	63.69
20	Watchung Hills	62.47
21	Delaware Valley	61.14
22	Belvidere	61.09
23	Middlesex	60.57
24	Union	60.24
25	Manville	60.10
26	North Hunterdon	59.74
27	Colonia	59.63
28	Spotswood	58.99
29	Edison	58.94
30	Bridgewater-Raritan	58.75
31	Metuchen	58.28
32	A.L. Johnson	57.74
33	Carteret	57.69
34	North Brunswick	57.47
35	Sayreville	56.99
36	South Plainfield	56.73
37	Roselle	56.23
38	Montgomery	55.84
39	Hunterdon Central	55.63
40	Governor Livingston	55.53
41	South Hunterdon	54.73
42	J.F. Kennedy	52.25
43	Monroe	51.95
44	Franklin	51.85
45	Scotch Plains-Fanwood	50.17
46	Highland Park	49.90
47	North Plainfield	49.53
48	Voorhees	47.71
49	South Brunswick	46.00
50	South River	44.78
51	J.P. Stevens	43.45
52	Jonathan Dayton	42.63
53	Perth Amboy	42.20
54	East Brunswick	42.09
55	Bound Brook	41.95
56	Roselle Park	39.67
57	David Brearley	37.31
58	Dunellen	36.26
59	New Brunswick	33.77