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The week leading into Thanksgiving is the one time a year in which the Hartford Courant Top 10 state coaches’ poll is almost always placid.

The state schedule is light in the week prior to Thanksgiving. In the case of this season, No. 5 Wilton, No. 10 Windsor, Berlin and Glastonbury were the only teams receiving votes who played in Week 11 and all won by 14-or-more points.

There was no movement, then, in this week’s Top 10, so let’s turn our attention to the CIAC playoffs headed into the final week of the 2025 regular season (sheds tear).

Thirty teams have unofficially qualified — no one officially qualifies until the CIAC’s football committee approves them the day after the end of the season, i.e. Friday — barring a Thanksgiving Day volca

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