The Constitution State is one of the last to begin their high school football seasons, with the official kickoff date of Sep. 12.

With many states getting underway in the coming weeks, we are predicting the state champions from every classification and we now head over to Connecticut’s CIAC to give our projections.

Many teams that won a state championship last season are bringing plenty of talent back on the road to a possible repeat. As Connecticut begins high school football practices today, we give to you our predictions on this 2025 season’s list of state champions.

Class LL: Fairfield College Preparatory

Back when we made a prediction on Fairfield Prep’s 2025 season, we had the Jesuits going 8-2 and making a deep run through the Class LL playoffs. We never said, though, how that run would end. Now looking at it a little more closely, we see it ending with the ultimate prize in hand. Having a signal caller like Robert Manning returning under center speaks wonders to where the Jesuits offense will be at compared to other LL contenders. Manning finished the 2024 season completing 170-of-282 passes for 2,550 yards, 32 touchdowns and just a mere two picks. Though we see them losing to Greenwich to open up the season, we have them winning it all come December.

Class L: New Canaan

This particular Connecticut classification was the hardest one to choose from just because of the lack of experience returning for many of the contenders. The Rams have a lot of voids to fill as they graduated quarterback Luke Robinson, who threw for over 2,000 yards and 28 touchdowns last year. New Canaan, however, does bring back their second-leading rusher in Henry Stein, who rushed for 558 yards and scored five times in ’24.

Class MM: Windsor

Now it would be easy to just say that Masuk winning, repeating as state champions is a forgone conclusion, but that would be saying the 2024 edition of the final game was won by a wide margin. That would not be the case, however, as Windsor came to within 24-21 of the Panthers, who are in transition with a new head coach. Central Connecticut commitment Anthony Robinson returns for his senior season after throwing for 1,690 yards and 19 touchdowns in 2024. Windsor enters the season as the state’s No. 17-ranked team via the Massey Ratings.

Class M: St. Joseph

Sophomore power is what fueled this Cadets’ squad to last year’s Class M state championship and now that they’re all juniors, it leaves the window wide open on St. Joseph competing and winning another title. Who really was the juice to the offense last season was HT Jones, who threw for 1,611 yards and 21 touchdowns a year ago. With Jones and the team’s leading rusher Finn Kilmartin (666 yards in ’24) both back in the fold, look for the Cadets to repeat come December.

Class SS: Killingly

We tried looking a different way at this, but just continued to come back to the same conclusion: The Redmen are going to win another state championship. Why’s that? Well, returning one of the state’s top two-way players in Hayden Allard is one, as the senior returns to the backfield and linebacking corps. Allard in 2024 made over 40 tackles on defense and on offense rushed for 2,117 yards and scored 42 times. Hard to bet against Killingly winning it all, again.

Class S: Ansonia

When you’ve won the Connecticut CIAC state record 22 state championships, it just seems like the easiest pick among the six on this list to make. Probably the only little ‘doubt’ that can be had is how will the Chargers fare under a different head coach leading them. Ansonia easily defeated Bloomfield, 58-12, in last year’s Class S state title game and with longtime head coach Tom Brockett retiring, will the Chargers just keep winning like it’s nobody business or?