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The IHSA Week 8 playoff outlook lists 248 Illinois high school football teams as having secured postseason berths.
Key takeaways
The Illinois High School Association’s Week 8 playoff outlook lists 248 Illinois high school football teams as playoff clinchers. Those teams had secured postseason berths by Week 8.
The count provides a statewide snapshot of the playoff race. It does not identify the individual schools, their classifications, their records or the remaining qualification picture.
A playoff clincher is a team that has secured a postseason place. The Week 8 figure is 248 teams across Illinois high school football.
The IHSA is the governing body named in the outlook. Further team-by-team details, including the schools included in the total, are not stated here.
The Peoria Journal Star’s coverage is linked below. The link provided for this brief does not identify a separate IHSA record.
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