Part 1 of 2. South Jersey will be next.
Below are the brackets for the playoffs if they were to start this weekend. Things will change with four more weeks of playoffs: teams can move in or out of the playoffs or they could be in a different section than they are today. The teams not currently in the playoffs at this point are listed below each group and I am calling them wild cards. Calculations are courtesy of www.gridironnewjersey.com. I did my own geographical work to determine who is further north or south of one another. Here is how it looks for now:
Group 1:
Section 1: (1) Hasbrouck Heights – (2) New Milford – (3) Park Ridge – (4) Butler – (5) Wallkill Valley – (6) Emerson – (7) Boonton – (8) Cresskill
Section 2: (1) Shabazz – (2) Weequahic – (3) Cedar Grove – (4) Hoboken – (5) West Side – (6) New Providence – (7) – Brearley – (8) Bound Brook
Wild Cards: Dunellen, Pompton Lakes, Wood-Ridge, Hopatcong, Wallington, Saddle Brook, Becton
Group 2:
Section 1: (1) Newton – (2) Westwood – (3) Mahwah – (4) Pequannock – (5) High Point – (6) Ramsey – (7) Waldwick – (8) Kittatinny
Section 2: (1) Rutherford – (2) Mountain Lakes – (3) Verona – (4) Lyndhurst – (5) Lenape Valley – (6) Glen Rock – (7) Hawthorne – (8) Madison
Wild Cards: Newark Central, Caldwell, Dumont, Hackettstown, Hanover Park, Lodi
Group 3:
Section 1: (1) Ramapo – (2) River Dell – (3) Paramus – (4) Sparta – (5) Lakeland – (6) Pascack Valley – (7) Montville – (8) Demarest
Section 2: (1) West Essex – (2) Summit – (3) Rahway – (4) Parsippany Hills – (5) Warren Hills – (6) South Plainfield – (7) Voorhees – (8) Carteret
Wild Cards: West Milford, Bergenfield, Teaneck
Group 4:
Section 1: Wayne Hills – (2) Randolph – (3) Old Tappan – (4) Wayne Valley – (5) Morris Knolls – (6) Morris Hills – (7) Passaic Valley – (8) Mount Olive
Section 2: (1) Linden – (2) Phillipsburg – (3) Irvington – (4) Colonia – (5) West Morris – (6) Cranford – (7) Barringer – (8) North Hunterdon
Wild Cards: Roxbury, Orange, Northern Highlands, Belleville
Group 5:
Section 1: (1) Union City – (2) Montclair – (3) Clifton – (4) Ridgewood – (5) West Orange – (6) Hackensack – (7) North Bergen – (8) Kennedy
Section 2: (1) Piscataway – (2) Union – (3) Ridge – (4) – Elizabeth – (5) Westfield – (6) East Orange – (7) Bayonne – (8) Livingston
Wild Cards: Bridgewater-Raritan, Passaic Tech, Perth Amboy, Bloomfield