High School Football Playoff Points Announced Heading Into Week 8

Kadale Williams (#1) runs for Lumen Christi. LC is currently #2 in Division 6 heading into Week 8. Photo by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports.

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(October 15, 2023 12:00PM) Several local teams are ranked high enough to enter the Michigan High School Athletic Association football playoffs starting Friday, Nov 1st.

With two weeks remaining, some area teams need wins and some help from other teams.

Teams in the Jackson area who have already punched a ticket into the playoffs include Parma Western (Division 4), Lumen Christi (Division 6), Hanover-Horton, Leslie, Napoleon (Division 7), Springport, and Manchester (Division 8).

Teams in the area who need to pick up 1-2 more wins and other help to stay alive include Jackson (Div. 3), Michigan Center and Grass Lake (Div. 6), Jonesville (Div. 7), and Addison (Div. 8).

Schools on this list are divided by division and ordered by playoff average. The top 32 teams by playoff average in each 11-player division and top 16 teams by playoff average in each 8-player division will qualify for the MHSAA football playoffs beginning November 1st.

Divisions were determined prior to the start of the season, and the lists below include not only teams currently positioned to potentially qualify but also the next eight teams in each division.

To review a list of all state football playoff schools, individual school playoff point details and to report errors, visit the Football Playoff Point Summary page of the MHSAA Website.

The announcement of the qualifiers and first-round pairings for both the 11 and 8-player playoffs will take place at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, on the “Selection Sunday Show” on Bally Sports Detroit and its website https://www.ballysports.com/detroit. The playoff qualifiers and pairings will be posted to the MHSAA website following the Selection Sunday Show, and times and dates will be added Monday, Oct. 28. The MHSAA also will announce the order for this season’s 11-Player Finals, to be played Nov. 29-30 at Ford Field, during the Selection Sunday Show.

Here is a list of all Jackson-area MHSAA football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the eighth week of the season:

DIVISION 3:

Jackson, 4-3, 41.000, #29

Northwest, 2-5, 29.857, #43

DIVISION 4:

Parma Western, 5-2, 53.826, #10

DIVISION 6:

Lumen Christi, 6-1, 54.821, #2

Michigan Center, 3-4, 26.143, #40

Grass Lake, 4-3, 25.714, #41

Brooklyn Columbia Central, 3-4, 19.571, #49

Stockbridge, 1-6, 16.143, #55

Hillsdale, 0-7, 11.857, #61