A win in the Group 4 title game over Ramapo makes Winslow Twp. the top-rated New Jersey high school football, according to the Strength Index, a major part of the NJSIAA's playoff formula. In Central Jersey Sports Radio's final unofficial calculations, the Eagles finished the year No. 1, with an SI value of 109.49 points. That's 4.63 points higher than Don Bosco Prep, which was upset by St.

Week Seven is in the books, and Cutoff Weekend is upon us. This Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the final games of the high school football season for public schools before the NJSIAA announces the playoff brackets on Sunday. This week, all SI values are locked in, so that the values used to calculate OSI - one of two metrics in the UPR system, the other being power points - will not change after this weekend's results, for playoff qualification only.

In record time - with six weeks to go before the start of high school football season August 28th - Gridiron New Jersey has come out with the state's official Strength Index Numbers for 2025. The Strength Index is what is used to calculate a team's OSI, with that ranking being 60 percent of a team's playoff qualification. Power point rankings make up the other 40 percent, and for the second straight year, "group points" are no longer a factor in that calculation.