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Vernon Hills travel to Prairie Ridge for IHSA Class 5A first-round playoff football game on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake.

Here is a look at the opening-round playoff matchups awaiting McHenry County area teams this weekend.

Both teams in last year's title game are in different classifications now leaving a wide open chase for this year's state title. Steve Soucie breaks down the opening round of the 2025 IHSA Class 5A Playoffs.

Jacobs senior quarterback Connor Goehring returns against Cary-Grove in regular-season finale, and info on Prairie Ridge and Dundee-Crown in the McHenry County Week 9 notebook.

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

Prairie Ridge completed a perfect regular season with a 54-26 Fox Valley Conference win over Crystal Lake South on Friday night, wrapping up the 10-team conference title.

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.