CSM Pick 'Em: Week 5, 2025
- Clutch Sports Staff
- Sep 25
- 3 min read
The playoff picture, believe it or not, will start to come into focus this Friday as several teams look to move to 5-0 and clinch postseason eligibility.
Pole position in the Mid-Illini will be sorted as a pair of 4-0 teams, Dunlap and East Peoria, will battle. So will the leaders of the Heart of Central Illinois Large Conference, El Paso-Gridley and Tri-Valley.
Morton and Pekin will clash in a battle between two teams looking for a bounceback win. Additionally, several Big 12 teams will take on evenly-matched foes as one of the area’s largest football conferences continues to shift with every week.
At the small school level, Bloomington Central Catholic, Normal U-High, Farmington and Olympia will encounter key conference matchups that will be crucial in order to win a conference championship.
Clutch Sports Media will have a free, live broadcast of Normal West at Peoria High in our WMBD Game of the Week on ciproud.com. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. on Friday with pregame coverage starting beforehand.
CSM will also have a free, live broadcast of Morton taking on Pekin in our CSM Game of the Week on clutchsportsil.com. That game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on Friday with pregame coverage starting beforehand.
Our staff has made their predictions for 11 of the top games in the area in Week 5 with their comments also listed below. Broadcasters for our broadcasted games are ineligible to pick winners for the game that they are broadcasting and will pick the winner of an extra game instead.
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