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NC high school football NCHSAA rankings: Will the top seeds hold serve in Round 3?

Millbrook’s Session McArthur (5) attempts the interception against Cardinal Gibbons’ Chey Yardley (14) during the first half. The Cardinal Gibbons Crusaders and the Millbrook Wildcats met in a NCHSAA 4A playoff game in Raleigh, NC on November 10, 2022
Millbrook’s Session McArthur (5) attempts the interception against Cardinal Gibbons’ Chey Yardley (14) during the first half. The Cardinal Gibbons Crusaders and the Millbrook Wildcats met in a NCHSAA 4A playoff game in Raleigh, NC on November 10, 2022 newsobserver.com

Weather played havoc on the schedule in Week 2 of the playoffs, and may have indirectly im[acted some of the games, as well. But as the dust settled — and the puddles dried out — the top teams in the state remained in their positions.

Behind them? Plenty of chaos, with more likely to come in Round 3.

And despite the way the NCHSAA compiles its rankings, the top brackets have, for the most part, allowed the top teams to remain the top teams. In 4A, for instance, six of the eight teams remaining in the West remain alive. In the East, though, only the top 3 official seeds held.

Week 3 of the playoffs — the regional quarterfinal round — promises more of the same as we start seeing sub-regional powers collide.

Here are our full top-10 rankings:

The Observer/News & Observer NCHSAA Football Polls

4A

Rk.SchoolRec.
1.East Forsyth12-0
2.Independence11-1
3.New Bern12-0
4.Hough10-2
5.Grimsley12-0
6.Weddington11-1
7.Butler10-2
8.Millbrook11-1
9.A.C. Reynolds11-1
10.Wake Forest10-2

3A

Rk.SchoolRec.
1.Kings Mountain12-0
2.South Point11-1
3.

Seventy-First

12-0
4.

Northern Nash

12-0
5.East Lincoln12-0
6.Crest9-3
7.Ledford11-1
8.West Charlotte7-5
9.Eastern Alamance11-1
10.North Brunswick11-1

2A

Rk.SchoolRec.
1.

Burns

11-1
2.

Monroe

11-1
3.

East Surry

12-0
4.East Duplin11-1
5.Reidsville11-1
6.

Chase

12-0
7.Maiden11-1
8.

Wallace-Rose Hill

10-2
9.Princeton11-1
10.Clinton11-1

1A

Rk.SchoolRec.
1.Tarboro10-1
2.Andrews12-0
3.

Mount Airy

11-1
4.

Eastern Randolph

11-1

5.

Thomasville

11-1

6.

Draughn

11-1
7.Murphy9-3
8.Robbinsville9-3
9.

North Moore

10-2
10.Northampton Cty.10-2
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