Here the 2025 N.C. High School Athletic Association football state playoff brackets in HighSchoolOT's live bracket tool. The brackets are presented by Talk it Out NC. These brackets will update as games go final in each round of the playoffs.

The Chiefs have head-to-head losses to the Los Angeles Chargers and Jacksonville Jaguars, the two teams directly ahead of it in the wild-card standings. Patrick Mahomes and Co. still have to play the Denver Broncos twice, with the first meeting coming out of Kansas City's bye in Week 11.

The 2025 Kansas high school football playoffs continue Friday, November 7 with 72 games in the Regional Round. High School On SI has brackets for every classification and division in the Kansas high school playoffs.

Under the revised format, the five highest-ranked conference champions are still guaranteed a place in the playoff field, maintaining access for the Group of Six. However, those champions will no longer receive preferential seeding. The bracket will be ordered directly from Nos. 1–12 based on the final rankings.

Grimsley broke a tie and pulled away from Dudley to clinch a conference title. “It definitely sucked for Faizon to go out like that, but I had to step up,” Lowe said.

Throughout Saturday’s slate, Sports Illustrated will give an updated look at the playoff seeding and matchups.