The section puts together a notes package each week during the playoffs. Here are a couple that caught my attention:
Four teams (Bradshaw Christian, Hughson, Rodriguez and Twelve Bridges) enter the playoffs with perfect records. In 2023, that number was two; in 2015 it was a record 10 teams who entered the playoffs at 10-0. Historically speaking, at least one of those three teams will win a championship, as there has been at least one unbeaten team win a Section championship for 23 of the last 29 years.
We have three teams in the playoffs for the very first time. And a very large welcome to perhaps the top story of this first round: Armijo is here for the first time. The Fairfield school opened in 1891 and has never made the football playoffs, even though Super Bowl champion and Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Famer George Martin played there in the late 1970s. Also in the playoffs for the first time: Elite Public Schools and Wheatland.
Take a bow, Trans-Valley League! All seven of your teams advanced to the playoffs. Three leagues qualified six teams apiece to the postseason: The CVC, FVL and the VOL. And three leagues each qualified five teams - The SAL, SFL and TCAL.
Four teams (Bradshaw Christian, Hughson, Rodriguez and Twelve Bridges) enter the playoffs with perfect records. In 2023, that number was two; in 2015 it was a record 10 teams who entered the playoffs at 10-0. Historically speaking, at least one of those three teams will win a championship, as there has been at least one unbeaten team win a Section championship for 23 of the last 29 years.
We have three teams in the playoffs for the very first time. And a very large welcome to perhaps the top story of this first round: Armijo is here for the first time. The Fairfield school opened in 1891 and has never made the football playoffs, even though Super Bowl champion and Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Famer George Martin played there in the late 1970s. Also in the playoffs for the first time: Elite Public Schools and Wheatland.
Take a bow, Trans-Valley League! All seven of your teams advanced to the playoffs. Three leagues qualified six teams apiece to the postseason: The CVC, FVL and the VOL. And three leagues each qualified five teams - The SAL, SFL and TCAL.
