Playoff Picture · Clinches · 2025 season · Through Week 6· Statewide · Public groups
Clinches
Who can lock up a playoff spot this week, who already has, and who has been knocked out. Clinched and Out are printed only when proven; virtually means all but certain.
Who can clinch this weekWho can clinch
Week 7No one can clinch in Week 7.No public team locks a spot with a win alone, or with a win plus one other result. This list fills in as the Oct 25 cutoff gets closer.
Settled after Week 6
4 clinched · 0 outINWest Orange 5-2North Group 5 · No. 2 in the groupVirtually clinchedWest Orange has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.
West OrangeINPiscataway 5-2North Group 5 · No. 3 in the groupVirtually clinchedPiscataway has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.
INEast Orange Campus 6-0North Group 5 · No. 4 in the groupVirtually clinchedEast Orange Campus has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.
INElizabeth 3-4North Group 5 · No. 6 in the groupVirtually clinchedElizabeth has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.
ElizabethEarlier weeks
Week 51 clinched · 0 out
INBridgewater-Raritan 5-1North Group 5 · No. 1 in the groupVirtually clinchedBridgewater-Raritan has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.
Nothing was settled in Weeks 3 or 4.
Where the group standsThe group
Public groups · top 16 eligible teams make itGroupClinchedStill in the raceIn raceOut
Clinched, or virtually
Clinched and Out are printed only when no combination of results can change them. Virtually means all but certain, but not yet proven.
How qualifying works →Public groups only
Every non-public school that enters is in, and a committee seeds them, so there is nothing to clinch. Their projected seeds are on the Playoff Picture.
Non-public playoff picture →Only complete schedules
We never call a team whose schedule is missing games: a missing game could change everything. Those teams are called once their schedule is complete.
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