2025 Sac-Joaquin Section Flag Football Playoff Projections - Oct. 14

By Steve Montoya Oct 14, 2025, 6:56pm

A first look how the flag football playoffs might look around the Sac-Joaquin Section.

The Sac-Joaquin Section flag football playoffs will begin on Oct. 29 and conclude with the finals on Nov. 8 at Cosumnes River College.

Each league will qualify three automatic entries if it has six or more teams; leagues with five or fewer teams will qualify two. Teams that are not automatic qualifiers may still earn at-large bids if they finish within the top 15 in their MaxPreps division rankings.

There will be four total brackets, each comprised of 16 teams. Play-in games are possible.

Below are projected brackets — we have not yet seeded the teams. Bracket projections will be updated twice a week until the official brackets are released early next week.

Division 1

AE = Auto Entry
AL = At-large bid



1. McClatchy (Sacramento) - AE 
2. Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills) - AE
3. West Park (Roseville) - AE
4. Granite Bay - AE
5. Vacaville - AE
6. Pleasant Grove (Elk Grove) - AE
7. Pitman (Turlock) - AE
8. Sheldon (Sacramento) - AE
9. Gregori (Modesto) - AE
10. Monterey Trail (Elk Grove) - AL
11. Turlock - AE
12. Del Oro (Loomis) - AL
13. Inderkum (Sacramento) - AL
14. Central Valley (Ceres) - AE
15. Cosumnes Oaks (Elk Grove) - AL
16. River City (West Sacramento) - AE
17. Tokay (Lodi) - AE

Division 2
AE = Auto Entry
AL = At-large bid

1. Kimball (Tracy) - AE
2. Merced - AE
3. Atwater - AE
4. Woodcreek (Roseville) - AE
5. St. Francis (Sacramento) - AE
6. Antelope - AL
7. El Capitan (Merced) - AE
8. Ponderosa (Shingle Springs) - AE
9. Whitney (Rocklin) - AL
10. St. Mary's (Stockton) - AE
11. Tracy - AL
12. Vista del Lago (Folsom) - AE
13. Elk Grove - AE
14. Bear Creek (Stockton) - AE
15. Lodi (Lodi, Calif.) - AE
16. Grant (Sacramento) - AE
17. Fairfield - AE
18. Sierra (Manteca) - AE
19.Manteca - AE
20. Johnson (Sacramento) - AE

Division 3
AE = Auto Entry
AL = At-large bid

1. Christian Brothers (Sacramento) - AL
2. East Union (Manteca) - AE
3. Rio Linda - AE
4. Del Campo (Fair Oaks) - AE
5. Lathrop (Lathrop) - AE
6. Placer (Auburn) - AE
7. Twelve Bridges (Lincoln) - AE
8. Vanden (Fairfield) - AE
9. Ceres - AE
10. McNair (Stockton) - AE
11. Roseville - AL
12. Casa Roble (Orangevale) - AE
13. Wheatland - AE
14. Oakmont (Roseville) - AE
15. Ripon - AL
16. Florin (Sacramento) - AE

Division 4
AE = Auto Entry
AL = At-large bid



1.Dixon - AE
2. Orestimba (Newman) - AE
3. Hilmar - AE
4. Colfax - AE
5. Liberty Ranch (Galt) - AE
6. Central Catholic (Modesto) - AL
7. Mariposa County - AE
8. Destiny Christian Academy (Sacramento) - AL
9. Sonora - AL
10. Foresthill - AE
11. Hughson - AE
12. Sacramento Adventist (Carmichael) - AE
13. Mesa Verde (Citrus Heights - AE
14. Escalon - AL
15. Millennium (Tracy) - AE
16. Riverbank - AE
17. Amador (Sutter Creek) - AE