Part 1 of 2. South Jersey to follow.
The last few weeks, I have been giving the weekly playoff scenarios if playoffs were starting those weeks. I credited Gridiron New jersey with my numbers and since they did a similar article yesterday, I will do my own scenarios, instead of writing a “me too” article.
I will give you the playoff scenario by using the northing numbers, with the highest in each section to the lowest (north to south). I will start with North Section 1, which is north of Section 2.
South Jersey will be done later.
I will also list the schools currently seeded 17 to 21. Some have little chance of qualifying, but I do not know how the new system works. Therefore, I will list those five schools with their northing numbers the same as the teams currently qualifying for the playoffs, starting with the school furthest north.
I will list the teams, followed by their northing numbers in bold face.
Group 1
Section 1: 1) Wallkill Valley, 843857 – 2) Park Ridge, 800460 – 3) Butler, 785594 – 4) Emerson, 778646 – 5) New Milford, 771345 – 6) Cresskill, 767798 – 7) Boonton, 752781 – 8) Hasbrouck Heights, 738485
Section 2: 1) Cedar Grove, 734674 – 2) Hoboken, 697558 – 3) West Side, 694619 – 4) Shabazz, 683700 – 5) Weequahic, 680029 – 6) New Providence, 676278 – 7) Brearley, 669046 – 8) Bound Brook, 628906
17-21 Seeds: 17) Pompton Lakes, 789273, 18) Wallington, 734803, 19) Wood-Ridge, 731186 – 20) Becton, 727530 – 21) Dunellen, 639836
Group 2
Section 1: 1) High Point, 854814 – 2) Kittatinny, 833087 – 3) Mahwah, 822179 – 4) Ramsey, 807629 – 5) Newton, 807511 – 6) Waldwick, 773056 – 7) Westwood, 778573, 8) Pequannock, 774687
Section 2: 1) Glen Rock, 771209 – 2) Hawthorne, 771174 – 3) Mountain Lakes, 749133 – 4) Verona, 773014 – 5) Rutherford, 723874 – 6) Lyndhurst, 720206 – 7) Hanover Park, 716362 – 8) Madison, 701776
17-21 Seeds: 17) Sussex Tech, 829298 – 18) Dumont, 767749 – 19) Lenape Valley, 752829 – 20) Hackettstown, 731079 – 21) Newark Central, 695326
Group 3
Section 1: 1) West Milford, 818364 – 2) Lakeland, 807489 – 3) Sparta, 807435 – 4) Pascack Valley, 789561 – 5) Ramapo, 785705 – 6) Demarest, 775068 – 7) River Dell, 767687 – 8) Bergenfield, 760447
Section 2: 1) Paramus, 760357 – 2) Montville, 749158 – 3) West Essex, 738284 – 4) Parsippany Hills, 738197 – 5) Warren Hills, 709383 – 6) Summit, 683575 – 7) Voorhees, 672847 – 8) Rahway, 647189
17-21 Seeds: 17) Teaneck, 749517 – 18) Garfield, 745720, 19) Governor Livingston, 672642 – 20) South Plainfield, 639846 – 21) Carteret, 636314
Group 4
Section 1: 1) Northern Highlands, 800331 – 2) Old Tappan, 793284, 3) Wayne Hills, 774731 – 4) Wayne Valley, 763819 – 5) Mount Olive, 749123 – 6) Morris Hills, 745480 – 7) Morris Knolls, 745479 – 8) Passaic Valley, 741969
Section 2: 1) Randolph, 730913 – 2) West Morris, 716419 – 3) Barringer, 700585 – 4) Irvington, 687306 – 5) Phillipsburg, 680635 – 6) Cranford, 665391 – 7) Linden, 654496 – 8) Colonia, 639885
17-21 Seeds: 17) Roxbury, 738224 – 18) Orange, 701870 – 19) North Hunterdon, 654633 – 20) JFK (Iselin), 632611 – 21) Woodbridge, 625325
Group 5
Section 1: 1) Ridgewood, 778520 – 2) Passaic Tech, 763837 – 3) Kennedy, 756570 – 4) Hackensack, 745799 – 5) Clifton, 742019 – 6) Montclair, 723754 – 7) North Bergen, 717175 – 8) East Orange, 701896
Section 2: 1) Livingston, 709106 – 2) Union City, 705770 – 3) Union, 679982 – 4) Ridge, 676265 – 5) Bayonne, 669204 – 6) Elizabeth, 665466 – 7) Westfield, 658088 – 8) Piscataway, 621621
17-21 Seeds: 17) Passaic, 734778 – 18) West Orange, 716434 – 19) Bloomfield, 712844 – 20) Bridgewater-Raritan, 639860 – 21) Perth Amboy, 614417