TSSAA first-round playoff pairings
Friday, Nov. 4 All kickoffs at 7 p.m. local time Class 6A Cookeville (6-4) at Bradley Central (8-2) Class 5A Lenoir City (3-7) at Rhea County (8-2) McMinn County (7-3) at Farragut (9-1) Walker Valley (6-4) at Oak Ridge (8-2) Campbell County (8-2) at Ooltewah (8-2) Class 4A Central (3-7) at Page (6-3) Giles County (7-3) at Hixson (6-4) East Hamilton (5-5) at Marshall County (9-1) Class 3A McMinn Central (4-6) at Elizabethton (9-1) Upperman (4-6) at Red Bank (7-3) East Ridge (5-5) at DeKalb County (7-3) Smith County (5-5) at Notre Dame (6-4) Howard (3-7) at Sequatchie County (10-0) Class 2A Westmoreland (4-6) at Marion County (9-1) Boyd-Buchanan (7-3) at Watertown (9-1) Jackson County (8-2) at Meigs County (9-1) Tyner (4-6) at Forrest (9-1) Class 1A Cornersville (5-5) at South Pittsburg Summertown (8-2) at Whitwell (5-5) Copper Basin (5-5) at Fayetteville (8-2) Grace Academy (4-6) at Columbia Academy (9-0) Division II-AA Father Ryan (4-6) at McCallie (6-4) Baylor (6-4) at Pope John Paul (6-4)
The Tennessee state football playoffs will begin Friday and a dozen Chattanooga area teams will be at home.
Those schools include Bradley Central, Rhea County, Ooltewah, Hixson, Sequatchie County, Red Bank, Notre Dame, Marion County, Meigs County, South Pittsburg, Whitwell and McCallie.
Those on the road are Central, East Hamilton, McMinn Central, East Ridge, Howard, Boyd-Buchanan, Tyner, Copper Basin, Grace Academy and Baylor.
All games begin at 7 p.m. local time.
At 10-0, Sequatchie County, ranked second in the latest Class 3A state polls, is the only local unbeaten in the field.
For more on this story, see Sunday's editions of the Times Free Press.
Contact Ward Gossett at wgossett@timesfreepress.com or 423-886-4765. Follow him at Twitter.com/wardgossett.