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Shrine to Face Liggett in First Round of Football Playoffs

'Selection Sunday' reveals opponents for Oakland County's high school football teams.

Sunday night, learned it will play undefeated Grosse Pointe Woods University of Liggett in the first round of the high school football playoffs this weekend.

Selection Sunday

Selection Sunday is one of the most exciting days of the high school football season – and it doesn't even involve any actually football games.

On the “Selection Sunday” program that aired on FOX Sports Detroit, football teams across the state found out the full list of qualifiers and pairings.

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Teams that played nine games this season and had six wins automatically qualified (five wins for teams that played eight games). On the show, it was revealed that 234 teams automatically qualified this year, the lowest number ever.

This was good news for teams like Brother Rice and Avondale that finished on the bubble with just five wins. The field for the playoffs is 256 teams, so 22 teams that didn’t automatically qualify were able to get in.

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Qualifying teams are divided into eight divisions of 32 schools each based on school size. There are four regions of eight teams in each division and within those regions there are two districts of four teams.

All times and dates for first round games will be announced by the MHSAA on Monday. Games will be played on Friday and Saturday.

Royal Oak Shrine vs. Grosse Pointe Woods Liggett

The Shrin Knights (8-1) will play Grosse Pointe Woods University of Liggett (9-0) in a Division 7 first round game.

If Shrine were to win, the district finals could be a rematch of . Detroit Loyola (9-0) is in the same district and will play Britton Deerfield (6-3) in the first round.

in the Catholic League title game 40-0 on Saturday at Ford Field. After the game, the coaches acknowledged the teams might see each other down the road.

More high school football playoffs matchups

For a complete list of pairings, see this MHSAA list.

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