David Goricki’s Metro Detroit high school football rankings

David Goricki of The Detroit News ranks the top teams in the four Metro Detroit regions heading into the 2019 football season (2018 records in parentheses).

DETROIT

1. Detroit King (12-2)

2. Detroit Cass Tech (10-1)

3. Detroit Loyola (7-4)

4. U-D Jesuit (4-5)

5. Detroit Mumford (5-4)

6. Detroit Denby (9-3)

7. Detroit Western (6-4)

8. Detroit Renaissance (5-4)

9. Detroit Cody (6-4)

T10. Detroit Osborn (6-4)

T10. Detroit Central (5-5)

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NORTH

1. West Bloomfield (9-3)

2. Oak Park (9-2)

3. Clarkston (11-3)

4. Southfield (3-6)

5. Birmingham Groves (10-3)

6. Detroit Catholic Central (7-4)

7. Orchard Lake St. Mary’s (3-6)

8. Rochester Adams (6-4)

9. Birmingham Brother Rice (7-4)

10. Oxford (8-3)

EAST

1. Warren De La Salle (12-2)

2. Chippewa Valley (14-0)

3. Macomb Dakota (8-3)

4. Romeo (6-4)

5. Utica Eisenhower (6-4)

6. Harper Woods (8-3)

7. Grosse Pointe South (8-2)

8. Port Huron Northern (10-2)

9. Warren Mott (7-2)

T10. St. Clair (9-3)

T10. Marine City (10-3)

WEST

1. Belleville (12-1)

2. River Rouge (8-2)

3. Livonia Franklin (7-5)

4. Dearborn Fordson (10-2)

5. Saline (11-2)

6. Livonia Churchill (7-3)

7. Canton (6-4)

8. Plymouth (6-4)

9. Dearborn (5-5)

10. Grosse Ile (9-1)