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Michigan football rankings after Week 3 of 2019: Three more drop out, making room for Chelsea, Plymouth, Portage Northern
There was less upheaval in Week 3 than in Week 2, but there were still a handful of teams that dropped out of the top 25 after losses dropped them to 1-2. A few more teams that dropped out a week ago after winless starts picked up their first ‘W’ of the season, moving to 1-2 as well. It looks weird without some of those blue-blood programs in the top 25, for sure, but it’s even weirder to think that Detroit Catholic Central, Clarkston, Detroit King and Detroit Cass Tech are a collective 4-8 on the year. All of them could play their way back in — starting with the winners of this week’s match-ups, but it’ll be a long haul.
Here are the rankings after Week 3 of the regular season:
1 Muskegon (3-0) — beat East Grand Rapids, 28-23. (Last ranking: 1) Up next: Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills
2 Belleville (3-0) —beat Dearborn, 49-20. (Last ranking: 2) Up next: Westland John Glenn
3 Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley (3-0) — beat Utica Eisenhower, 34-19. (Last ranking: 3) Up next: New Baltimore Anchor Bay
4 Muskegon Mona Shores (3-0) —beat Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, 33-13. (Last ranking: 4) Up next: Rockford
5 Birmingham Groves (3-0) — beat Rochester, 42-0. (Last ranking: 5) Up next: Oak Park
6 West Bloomfield (2-1) — beat No. 18 Southfield A&T, 17-8. (Last ranking: 6) Up next: Clarkston
7 Oak Park (2-1) — beat No. 17 Clarkston, 64-41. (Last ranking: 7) Up next: Birmingham Groves
8 Rockford (3-0) — beat Holland West Ottawa, 48-6. (Last ranking: 9) Up next: Muskegon Mona Shores
9 Warren De La Salle (2-1) — beat Detroit Old Redford, 51-0. (Last ranking: 8) Up next: Birmingham Brother Rice
10 Lake Orion (3-0) — beat Rochester Adams, 36-31. (Last ranking: 15) Up next: Oxford
11 Mt. Pleasant (3-0) — beat Bay City John Glenn, 47-0. (Last ranking: 12) Up next: Bay City Central
12 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s (3-0) — beat Harper Woods Chandler Park, 56-16. (Last ranking: 16) Up next: Walled Lake Western
13 South Lyon (3-0) — beat White Lake Lakeland, 18-17. (Last ranking: 11) Up next: Waterford Kettering
14 Livonia Franklin (3-0) — beat Wayne Memorial, 55-0. (Last ranking: 13) Up next: Livonia Stevenson
15 Brighton (3-0) — beat Hartland, 35-13. (Last ranking: 14) Up next: Plymouth
16 Dearborn Fordson (3-0) — beat Livonia Stevenson, 47-29. (Last ranking: 19) Up next: Livonia Churchill
17 Grandville (3-0) — beat Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, 32-29. (Last ranking: 22) Up next: Grand Haven
18 Midland (3-0) — beat Bay City Western, 49-6. (Last ranking: 20) Up next: Saginaw Heritage
19 Davison (3-0) — beat Flint Carman-Ainsworth, 56-0. (Last ranking: 21) Up next: Flint Powers Catholic
20 Romeo (3-0) — beat Sterling Heights Stevenson, 50-13. (Last ranking: 23) Up next: Utica Eisenhower
21 Walled Lake Western (3-0) — beat Milford, 56-14. (Last ranking: 24) Up next: Orchard Lake St. Mary’s
22 Zeeland West (3-0) — beat Holland, 64-6. (Last ranking: 25) Up next: Lowell
23 Portage Northern (3-0) — beat Portage Central, 56-26 (Last ranking: NR) Up next: East Lansing
24 Plymouth (3-0) — beat Canton, 15-13 (Last ranking: HM) Up next: Brighton
25 Chelsea (3-0) — beat Ann Arbor Pioneer, 21-17. (Last ranking: HM) Up next: Ypsilanti Lincoln
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Dropped out: No. 10 Novi Detroit Catholic Central (1-2); No. 17 Clarkston (1-2); No. 18 Southfield A&T (1-2)
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The next five:
Edwardsburg (3-0)
Birmingham Brother Rice (3-0)
DeWitt (2-1)
Riverview (3-0)
St. Joseph (3-0)
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