The most difficult thing to parse when putting together a preseason ranking of any sport is figuring out not only what teams have returning from a successful season last year, but how do they replace what they’ve lost.

Multiple top teams enter the 2025 season replacing key pieces of their teams and it remains to be seen if those replacements are up to the challenge of filling those shoes.

The state saw some of the best quarterbacks in recent memory graduate from their respective schools (although some really good ones are still around too) and those are the schools that will be under the early season microscope.

That being said, these are also programs that have shown time and time again that they deserve to be considered among the top teams in the state.

Then there are other factors. Can a team build on momentum gained at the end of last season? Who are the bounce back candidates that always emerge?

They are all questions that will eventually be answered, but they aren’t answered now.

Here’s the Friday Night Drive’s preseason Top 25: