Are return playoff trips in the cards for Marquette, Seneca, Dwight, Sandwich and Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland?

Five of the eight football teams in The Times’ coverage area earned playoff bids in 2024. Sandwich finished with a 5-4 regular season and a first-round loss in the Class 4A playoffs. FCW posted a 6-3 regular season before falling in the opening round of the I8FA playoffs. The area’s three Chicagoland Prairie teams – Seneca (8-1 regular season, second-round loss in 2A); Dwight (6-3 regular season, third-round loss in 2A) and Marquette Academy (5-4 regular season, second-round loss in the 1A field) – all played until at least Week 11.

Fieldcrest (1-8), Ottawa (1-8) and Streator (3-6) all missed the playoff field of 256 teams with sub-.500 regular seasons.

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