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When No. 3 Springville (12-1) and No. 4 Orem (11-2) meet in Thursday’s 5A state championship game at Rice-Eccles Stadium, recent history suggests one thing is nearly certain — it will be close.

The high school football season has come to an end in the Holland area. We had three playoff teams, several turnarounds, injuries alter seasons and more. Here are the takeaways from the season: It is easy to look lightly at what the Zeeland West Dux did this year.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/high-school as New Jersey High School Football 2025 Playoff Brackets, Schedule (Non-Public) - November 19, 2025. The 2025 New Jersey high school football playoffs continue on Friday, November 21, with four semifinal games this weekend.

After just one season, Justin Utopo is out as the head coach of Long Beach Poly football, he confirmed to the562.org on Wednesday afternoon. Long Beach Poly has been wrapped up in an ineligibility issue that has plagued multiple teams this fall.

Theodore (Ala.) was just a touchdown and change away from reaching the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s (AHSAA) Class 6A third round of the postseason in a 21-14 loss to Benjamin Russell last week.

The confident, boisterous architect of the legendary Brick City Lions Pop Warner program, which won two national championships and sent countless top inner-city players to private schools all over North Jersey, sees a successful future for his young high school team. “The Big Body Era,” as Gaines calls it.