Greenwich wanted to make a statement Saturday that it was the state’s best team in what’s been a weird-and-wild season.

The Cardinals got their point across loud-and-clear. They scored the game’s first 27 points and cruised to a 37-17 win over Fairfield Prep in the Class LL football final at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. It was the program’s ninth state title.

Greenwich (11-2) was ranked eighth in The Day’s coaches’ poll after losing its regular-season final to Staples, 39-38, on Thanksgiving Day. It was the Cardinals’ second one-point loss (they lost to Southington, 29-28, on Sept. 24).

The second-seeded Cardinals had the most dominant playoff run of any of the six state champions, winning by a combined score of 126-24.

St. Joseph and Southington were ranked first and second, respectively, in the coaches’ poll at the end of the regular season. Both lost in the quarterfinals.

“I don’t think there’s a doubt,” Greenwich’s Charlie Dixon said when asked if he believed his team was No. 1. “We knew we were the best in in the state and I think we just proved it to everyone.”

Class L champion New Canaan was the highest-ranked team in poll prior to states (third).

Class S champion Ansonia (13-0) finished as the state’s only unbeaten team. It was ranked 10th in the previous poll.

There have been six teams ranked No. 1 through 10 weeks of voting.

Dixon had three interceptions, the first of which he returned for a 34-yard touchdown. George Vomvolakis ran 21 times for 152 yards and two scores.

Jack Wilson completed 11 of 19 passes for 119 yards and scored on two 1-yard runs for Greenwich.

Fifth-seeded Prep (9-4) turned it over six times.

Tyler Smith completed 17 of 39 passes for 211 yards and a touchdown for the Jesuits. Malachi Mercer-Robinson scored on a 13-yard run.

Class L final

• Ty Groff kicked a 19-yard field goal with 2:34 remaining to give No. 4 New Canaan a 16-13 victory over No. 3 Maloney in the Class L final at Central Connecticut State University’s Arute Field.

Groff kicked three field goals, including one from 41, and broke the career state record with 27 field goals, including seven in three playoff games this year.

The Rams (12-1) won their first state title since 2016, and a their 13th overall under head coach Lou Marinelli.

Maloney (11-2), the reigning Class L champ, trailed 6-0 before Marquis Ward returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown late in the second quarter to five the Spartans a 7-6 halftime lead.

Maloney stretched its lead to 13-6 on a 24-yard touchdown pass from Kyle Valentine to Donte Kelly in the third quarter, but Hunter Telesco tied the game for New Canaan with a 1-yard TD run with 9:44 remaining.

Class M final

• Second-seeded Notre Dame of West Haven held No. 1 Berlin to just 108 total yards and cruised to a 35-8 win over the previously unbeaten Redcoats in the Class M final at Rentschler Field.

It was the fourth state title for the Green Knights (10-3).

Matthew Piechota completed 17 of 25 passes for 221 yards and three touchdowns and ran 10 times for 59 yards for Notre Dame, while Jacob Staton added 23 carries for 94 yards and two touchdowns.

Mattaeo Petruzziello caught four passes for 65 yards and two touchdowns for the Green Knights and Ralph Sarno caught an 18-yard touchdown pass.

Berlin, which finishes 12-1, scored with 2:47 remaining when Josh Grimm caught a 34 touchdown pass from Lorenzo Miele. Miele followed with a conversion pass to Kyle Melville.

Class S final

• Quarterback Chris Kaminski ran for three touchdowns, including two in the final 9:08 of the fourth quarter, as top-seeded Ansonia outlasted No. 2 Bloomfield 28-21 at CCSU’s Arute Field.

It was a state-record 21st state title for the Chargers, who finished unbeaten (13-0) for the 20th time in program history. It was also the seventh time Ansonia and Bloomfield (10-3) have played in a state final with Ansonia now holding a 4-3 edge.

Ansonia took a 22-21 lead on a 19-yard run from Kaminski with 9:08 left and a two-point conversion run from David Cassetti, who finished with a 171 yards on 34 carries. Kaminski added his second TD on a 21-yard run with 2:39 remaining.

Davien Kerr had touchdown runs of five and eight yards for the Warhawks while Damien Foster added a three-yard TD run on the final play of the first half and Foster passed to Howard Simpson for the two-point conversion that game Bloomfield a 21-14 lead.