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NJ football: Piscataway regarded as state's third best public school program in Top 20 rankings

Greg Tufaro
Courier News and Home News Tribune
Piscataway's Juwon Jackson looks for running room against South Brunswick on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 at Piscataway.

Undefeated Piscataway and Sayreville are the lone Greater Middlesex Conference teams ranked among the state's best according to the latest USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey Top 20 poll.

Piscataway, which has blanked three opponents and improved to 5-0 with a 46-6 drubbing of Perth Amboy on Friday, is regarded as New Jersey's third best public school team, according to the rankings.

READUSA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey's complete Top 20 statewide rankings

Ramapo and Woodrow Wilson are both ranked higher than the Chiefs in the poll, which features four non-public schools at the top of the rankings.

USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey is made up of the Asbury Park Press, the Courier Post, the Daily Record, the Daily Journal, MyCentralJersey.com (Home News Tribune and Courier News) and NorthJersey.com.

Eight reporters from across the network vote in the poll, which considers teams from all six of the state’s leagues including the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, the North Jersey Super Football Conference, the West Jersey Football League and the Shore Conference.

The Top 20 rankings appear online every Monday at MyCentralJersey.com and in print every Tuesday in the Home News Tribune and Courier News.