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AURORA – No. 17 Grandview and No. 20 Cherokee Trail were the only lower-seeed teams to post victories in the first round of the 5A state football playoffs this weekend.
 

AURORA – No. 9 Wellington, No. 10 Sterling and No. 13 Eaton all survived the first-round of the 2A football playoffs, despite being the lower seeded team. With the wins, all three teams, in addition to No. 1 Strasburg, No. 2 Basalt, No. 3 The Classical Academy, No. 5 Lamar and No. 6 Berthoud, will advance to the quarterfinal round. 
 

AURORA – The top seeds advance in all seven first-round 1A football playoff games completed this weekend, while No. 13 Holyoke snuck past No. 4 Centauri on Monday to post the first upset of the bracket.

AURORA – No. 11 Sedgwick County posted the first upset of the 8-man football playoffs, shutting out No. 6 West Grand, 24-0, in the first round. No. 8 Sanford vs. No. 9 Springfield is the only game that wasn’t completed this weekend and will be played on Monday. 

AURORA – Of the five first-round 6-man football playoff games completed this weekend, the higher seeded prevailed in all of them. There are three games still to be played on Monday. 
 

The 2024 Colorado high school football Class 3A state playoff bracket.