Part 1 of 2. South Jersey will be next.
Below are the brackets for the playoffs if they were to start this weekend.
The changes in sections from last week involve Glen Rock moving to Section 1 in Group 2.
Other changes involved teams moving into the brackets of 16. Things will change with two more weeks before the playoffs: teams can move in or out of the playoffs or they could be in a different section than they are today, as shown. I am adding the border teams: those that can geographically be in either section. The teams in contention for playoffs are listed below each group and I am calling them wild cards. Calculations are courtesy of www.gridironnewjersey.com. Instead of my own geographical work, I used the NJSIAA northing numbers to determine who is further north or south of one another. Here is how it looks for now:
Group 1:
Section 1: (1) New Milford – (2) Hasbrouck Heights – (3) Park Ridge – (4) Wallkill Valley – (5) Butler – (6) Emerson – (7) Boonton – (8) Cresskill
Section 2: (1) Weequahic – (2) Shabazz – (3) Cedar Grove – (4) West Side – (5) Hoboken – (6) New Providence – (7) – Brearley – (8) Bound Brook
Border Schools: Hasbrouck Heights, Cedar Grove
Wild Cards: Dunellen, Wood-Ridge
Group 2:
Section 1: (1) Newton – (2) Westwood – (3) Kittatinny – (4) Glen Rock – (5) Mahwah – (6) Pequannock – (7) Ramsey – (8) High Point
Section 2: (1) Rutherford – (2) Verona – (3) Mountain Lakes – (4) Lyndhurst – (5) Madison – (6) Hawthorne – (7) Dumont – (8) Newark Central
Border Schools: Glen Rock, Hawthorne, Dumont
Wild Cards: Waldwick, Lenape Valley, Hanover Park, Caldwell
Group 3:
Section 1: (1) Ramapo – (2) River Dell – (3) Paramus – (4) Lakeland – (5) Sparta – (6) Pascack Valley – (7) West Milford – (8) Demarest
Section 2: (1) West Essex – (2) Rahway – (3) Summit – (4) Montville – (5) Parsippany Hills – (6) Voorhees – (7) South Plainfield – (8) Warren Hills
Border Schools: Montville, West Essex, Parsippany Hills
Wild Cards: Bergenfield, Carteret, Teaneck
Group 4:
Section 1: Old Tappan – (2) Wayne Hills – (3) Morris Hills – (4) Morris Knolls – (5) Wayne Valley – (6) Northern Highlands – (7) Mount Olive – (8) Passaic Valley
Section 2: (1) Phillipsburg – (2) Randolph – (3) Irvington – (4) Linden – (5) Cranford – (6) West Morris – (7) Colonia – (8) Barringer
Border Schools: Randolph, Passaic Valley, West Morris
Wild Cards: Roxbury, Orange, North Hunterdon
Group 5:
Section 1: (1) Montclair – (2) Ridgewood – (3) Clifton – (4) Hackensack – (5) Kennedy – (6) North Bergen – (7) West Orange – (8) Livingston
Section 2: (1) Union – (2) Piscataway – (3) Union City – (4) – East Orange – (5) Ridge – (6) Elizabeth – (7) Westfield – (8) Bayonne
Border Schools: Union City, East Orange, Livingston
Wild Cards: Bridgewater-Raritan, Passaic Tech