UNOFFICIAL Playoff Standings Update: Group 3

While most high school football teams across New Jersey played Friday night, still more have to play Saturday. But with much of Week 6 in the books, here’s a look at Central Jersey Sports Radio’s projections on updated playoff standings.

All our projections are unofficial and based on scores reported to Gridiron New Jersey – the official calculator of the NJSIAA’s UPR formula – with additional scores gathered from various media sources.

Please note, we have not performed any tiebreakers or top-down head-to-head comparisons, which is done on the final weekend within the field of 16, since future meetings could alter those adjustments. The top 16 teams in each supersection qualify for the playoffs. And while a minimum of two wins is needed, we’re not eliminating those teams yet either, as many teams still have two or three games remaining.

NORTH GROUP 3:

Note that the teams in red – Weequahic and West Side – are ineligible for the postseason per NJSIAA rule, after they each received several player disqualifications two weeks ago in their game against each other. That’s reflected in the sectional projections below.
Summit – which hosts Bernards Saturday afternoon at 1 pm – stayed in second despite a win by West Morris Friday night.
Cranford beat Scotch Plains-Fanwood Friday night – and now has won four of its last five, by the way, after an 0-2 start – but still held in 12th, even though they improved from an 11.6 to a 10.8 UPR. That just makes the pack ahead of them tighter.
South Plainfield snapped a three-game skid with a win at New Brunswick, but dropped to 19th. Their chances are slim, with a home matchup against winless South River next week that could hurt them, even with a win.

Table displaying high school football standings for North 1 and North 2, Group 3, including team names, wins, losses, ties, and various rankings.

SOUTH GROUP 3:

The only Big Central team here, Somerville dropped from second to fourth after a 43-14 road win at North Hunterdon, which is just 1-6. But the Pioneers get better teams the next two weeks: Friday vs. Plainfield (on CJSR) and Friday of Cutoff Weekend at Watchung Hills.