The CIF Southern Section football playoff brackets will be released Sunday morning.

The first thing to know is that teams are placed into one the Southern Section’s 14 playoff divisions according to how the teams are ranked by HSratings.com.

Much of the older rules for playoff participation remain – like guaranteed playoff berths for finishing among the top two teams in four-team leagues, or the top three in five- and six-team leagues. Some at-large berths for non-automatic qualifiers will be available, the number of which will vary by division.

Those HSratings.com rankings, based solely on current-season results, will be used by CIF-SS to place teams into playoff divisions and seed them.

There could be first-round games putting two league champions together. Last year, Bravo League ch

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