{"id":198486,"date":"2025-07-11T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/198486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:03:07","slug":"top-20-countdown-state-of-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/198486\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 countdown, State of the Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re spending the weeks leading up to the 2025\u00a0high school football season by counting down the North Jersey Public Top 20 rankings.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also checking in with every non-public team, and every public team not ranked in the Public Top 20, as part of our State of the Program series.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the links for each team below. This file will be continually updated\u00a0as new Top 20 countdown and State of the Program stories are published.<\/p>\n<p>Public Top 20 countdown<\/p>\n<p>The Public Top 20 countdown begins on Monday, July 28.<\/p>\n<p>State of the Program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/09\/cliffside-park-ridgefield-nj-football-starting-over-title\/84490948007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cliffside Park\/Ridgefield starting over after title season<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/08\/fort-lee-nj-football-looks-to-take-the-next-step\/84457277007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Lee looks to take the next step<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/07\/paramus-nj-football-laying-foundation-future-state-program\/84473494007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramus laying a foundation for the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/08\/pascack-hills-nj-football-intent-reversing-close-calls-evan-lampert\/84461521007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascack Hills intent on reversing last year&#8217;s close calls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/10\/saddle-brook-nj-football-welcoming-new-home-and-new-coach-in-2025\/84516774007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saddle Brook welcoming new home and new coach in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/07\/10\/wood-ridge-nj-football-keep-moving-forward-andrew-carbone\/84462270007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wood-Ridge aims to keep moving forward with new coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re spending the weeks leading up to the 2025\u00a0high school football season by counting down the North Jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[247,265,864,3203,7,1134,2118,820,4247,3198,246,88,1587,42586,245,264,3197,9,266,3199],"class_list":{"0":"post-198486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-exclude","11":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-jersey","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-logic","18":"tag-neutral","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-north","21":"tag-north-jersey-football","22":"tag-overall","23":"tag-overall-neutral","24":"tag-paywall","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-sports-news","27":"tag-testing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}