2013 Sac-Joaquin Section football playoff projections

(Editor's note: Steve Montoya is the Executive Editor at MaxPreps.com. He also has a weekly newsletter each week he sends out to the Sac-Joaquin Section football coaches. This is only a projection. We will update every week.)

Updated Oct. 27

MaxPreps will have a bracket projection before the final week of games.

With still three weeks to go for most teams in the Sac-Joaquin Section, we're far away from knowing who is in and who is out of playoff contention.

But if you look at past years' results, several teams appear to have already met the requirements needed to get in.

In order to earn an at-large bid you need to have a minimum of two league wins. And at-large teams will be selected solely on the basis of regular season victories if they meet the two league-win minimum.

Last year, the teams with six total wins and at least two league wins all got in.

From Division I-IV, Nevada Union (Grass Valley), Grant (Sacramento), Pacheco (Los Banos), and Lincoln all earned a postseason bid last season with five wins.

Rio Vista and Bradshaw Christian (Sacramento) made it in with five wins from Divisions V-VI.

As a reminder, all league winners and runner-up teams will get automatic berths.

The Sure Things (teams that have clinched in my opinion)

Division I-IV

Sorted from smallest to largest school size (school, wins - size of school enrollment)

Yellow=new this week

1. Capital Christian (Sacramento) 6 - 376
2. Central Catholic (Modesto) 6 - 389
3. Amador (Sutter Creek) 7 - 655
   
4. Hilmar 8 - 662
5. Colfax 7 - 725
   
6. Sacramento 6- 873 **
   
7. Ripon 7 - 895
8. St. Mary's (Stockton) 6 - 941 **
   
9. Calaveras (San Andreas) 6 - 1,104
10. Sierra (Manteca, Calif.) 6 - 1,390
    
11. Vista del Lago (Folsom) 6 - 1,433
12. American Canyon 6 - 1,434 **
    
13. Casa Roble (Orangevale) 6 - 1,450
14. Pacheco (Los Banos) 6 - 1,454
15. Lincoln 6 - 1,511
16. Manteca 6 - 1,546
17. Wood (Vacaville) 6 - 1,579 **
    
18. Rosemont (Sacramento) 7 - 1,632
19. Benicia 6 - 1,650
20. Patterson 7 - 1,673
21. Del Oro (Loomis) 6 - 1,713 **
    
22. Yuba City (Yuba City) 7 - 1,734
    
23. Rio Linda 6 - 1,716
24. Antelope 6 - 1,807
25. Cosumnes Oaks (Elk Grove) 6 - 1,823
    
26. Elk Grove 7 - 1,838
27. Rocklin 6 - 1,853
    
28. Burbank (Sacramento) 6- 1,948
29. Beyer (Modesto) 6 - 1,975
    
30. Tracy 6 - 1,986
31. Folsom 7 - 1,994
32. Stagg 6 - 2,231
33. Merced 6 - 2,235
34. Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills) 7 - 2,306
    
35. Pleasant Grove (Elk Grove) 7 - 2,534

** Note: Buhach Colony, Atwater, Johansen, McNair, Del Oro, Laguna Creek, Wood, Grace Davis and St. Mary's must be no lower than Division II.

American Canyon, Fairfield, Christian Brothers and Sacramento must be no lower than Division III.

Teams with 6 wins and one league victory

1. Jesuit (Carmichael)
2. Tokay (Lodi)
3. Edison (Stockton)
   

Division V-VI

1. Woodland Christian (Woodland) 6 152
2. Foresthill (Foresthill, Calif.) 5 - 207 (locked up runner-up)
   
3. Ripon Christian (Ripon) 6 248
4. Rio Vista 7 354
5. Le Grand 7 482
6. Mariposa County (Mariposa) 6 569

Important playoff information

Divisions I-IV

•  - There are 40 automatic qualifiers.
•  - The 20 league champions and the 20 runners-up. 
•  - There are 24 at-large qualifiers. (NOTE: A school must win at least two league games to be eligible.)
•  - At-large teams will be selected solely on the basis of regular season victories.
  

Seeding the tournament

•  - Schools will be listed in order by number of wins, regardless of league finish. 
•  - If two or more teams are tied for a particular seed (same number of total wins), the following criteria will be applied, in this order:
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1. Head-to-head
2. League standing. Note - Teams that win or share a league title will be seeded higher than non-championship teams. League standing will not be used for teams that did not win or share a league title.  
3. Combined wins of all opponents.
   
4. Calpreps/MaxPreps rankings.

(Information used from www.cifsjs.org)