1A West Football Projection
Time of last update -- Tuesday, Oct. 24, 12:50 p.m.
Automatic bids
Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or "best win").
Conference 1-seeds are in bold. Conference 1-seeds who would not be seeded as 1-seeds if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.
*Football Only 1-seed: Bishop McGuinness
Football Only 2-seed: Mountain Island Charter
*Central Carolina 1-seed: North Rowan
#Mountain Foothills 7 1-seed: Polk County
Northwest 1-seed: Mount Airy
Northwest 2-seed: Starmount
*Piedmont Athletic 1-seed: Eastern Randolph
*Southern Piedmont 1-seed: Bessemer City
Smoky Mountain 1-seed: Robbinsville
Smoky Mountain 2-seed: Swain County
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Draughn
*Yadkin Valley 1-seed: Albemarle
*-Split conference with 2A schools — 1-seeds must be in the top 3 or have an overall win percentage of .500 or better to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
#-as the only 1A team, Polk County must finish in the top 2 to be seeded as a 1-seed and get an automatic berth
Last five in, first five out
In:
28. Cherryville
29. Carver
30. Elkin
31. Winston-Salem Prep
32. Rosman
Out:
1. Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy
2. North Stokes
3. Union Academy
4. Highland Tech
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Robbinsville vs (32) Rosman
(16) Mountain Island Charter vs (17) Alleghany
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(8) Bessemer City vs (25) Avery County
(9) Swain County vs (24) Polk County
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(5) Mountain Heritage vs (28) Cherryville
(12) Starmount vs (21) South Stanly
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(13) Draughn vs (20) Cherokee
(4) North Rowan vs (29) Carver
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(3) Eastern Randolph vs (30) Elkin
(14) Hayesville vs (19) Corvian Community
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(6) Bishop McGuinness vs (27) South Davidson
(11) Thomasville vs (22) Andrews
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(7) Albemarle vs (26) South Stokes
(10) Murphy vs (23) Christ the King
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(15) Mitchell vs (18) East Wilkes
(2) Mount Airy vs (31) Winston-Salem Prep