Class 3A's North Bracket is chock full of impressive programs setting up some very early titanic matchups. Steve Soucie breaks down the opening round of the 2025 IHSA Class 3A Playoffs.

Here are the 2025 IHSA football playoff pairings for McHenry County area teams. Dates and times will be updated.

Here are previews and picks for all of the Week 9 games around the McHenry County area.

There is only one week left to earn a spot in the playoffs, and there are plenty of McHenry County area football teams still battling to get in. Here is where teams stand heading into Week 9.

Dundee-Crown's home game against Prairie Ridge on Friday was suspended before resuming Saturday. Police later confirmed that gunfire occurred in the area. That, plus info on last week's KRC game between Johnsburg and Woodstock in the McHenry County football notebook.

Junior Duke Mays ran for two scores and helped whittle time off the clock to help Johnsburg survive in a nail-biting, playoff-like atmosphere in the Skyhawks' 24-21 Kishwaukee River Conference win over Woodstock. The victory locked up a playoff spot for Johnsburg.

Here are previews and picks for all of the Week 8 games around the McHenry County area.

There are only two weeks left to earn a spot in the playoffs, and there are plenty of McHenry County area football teams still battling to get in. Here is where teams stand heading into Week 8.

Johnsburg pulled away from Plano for a 27-7 win, Marengo blanked Harvard 49-0, plus more in the Week 7 McHenry County football roundup.