{"id":223121,"date":"2025-10-18T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223121\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:29:21","slug":"wisconsin-high-school-football-11-player-playoff-brackets-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223121\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin high school football 11-player playoff brackets announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/86731783007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Week 9 Journal Sentinel high school football staff predictions<\/p>\n<p>Journal Sentinel prep sports reporter Zac Bellman breaks down the area&#8217;s top five games of the week and provides staff predictions for the results.<\/p>\n<p>The high school football regular season in Wisconsin concluded Oct. 17, and it is on to the postseason for 224 programs throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiaawi.org\/Sports\/Fall\/Football\/Tournament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association<\/a> is releasing brackets for all seven divisions of 11-player football throughout the course of a live broadcast Oct. 18, revealing the road to Camp Randall Stadium in Madison and a potential state title for teams throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>WIAA postseason play begins with first-round games Oct. 24-25. The five-week postseason concludes with WIAA state title games in seven divisions Nov. 20-21.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as additional brackets are revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin high school football playoffs: Division 5<\/p>\n<p>Area teams: Section 4 \u2014 No. 1 Lake Country Lutheran (8-1), No. 4 Brookfield Academy (7-4), No. 7 Milwaukee Academy of Science (4-5).<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 seeds: Grantsburg, Tomahawk, Mayville, Lake Country Lutheran.<\/p>\n<p>Area first-round games: No. 1 Lake Country Lutheran vs. No. 8 Kiel, No. 4 Brookfield Academy vs. No. 5 Wittenberg-Birnamwood; No. 7 Milwaukee Academy of Science at No. 2 Racine Lutheran.<\/p>\n<p>Quick analysis: Lake Country Lutheran gets a No. 1 seed over undefeated Northwestern thanks to a strength of schedule bonus under the new playoff matrix. Brookfield Academy gets a home game after a strong finish to its season, while Milwaukee Academy of Science&#8217;s road to another deep playoff run must start with a road upset over No. 2 Racine Lutheran. The Crusaders of Racine Lutheran defeated MAS, 35-12, in Week 3.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin high school football playoffs: Division 6<\/p>\n<p>Area teams: None.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 seeds: Regis, Edgar, Darlington, Manitowoc Lutheran.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin high school football playoffs: Division 7<\/p>\n<p>Area teams: None.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 seeds: Cochrane-Fountain City, Lourdes Academy, Black Hawk\/Warren (IL), Kenosha St. Joseph Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 9 Journal Sentinel high school football staff predictions Journal Sentinel prep sports reporter Zac Bellman breaks down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[256,620,634,25103,18999,64,63,6008,596,579,44098,34956,6007,44097,5130,135492,44,323,451,321,439,129255,20637,85,635,155,6019,320,319,333,12216,44100,44101],"class_list":["post-223121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ai","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-association","tag-athletic","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-enabled","tag-football","tag-high","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-highlights","tag-interscholastic","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-prep-football","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-point","tag-positive","tag-prep","tag-school","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-high-school-football","tag-wisconsin-interscholastic-athletic-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}