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CIF Central Section 2023 football playoff brackets: Scores, matchups, game times

Top seeds in each bracket are Clovis North (D1), Central Valley Christian (D2), Mission Prep (D3), Shafter (D4), Bishop Union (D5), Arvin (D6) and Tulelake (8-person).

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports

The brackets for the seven-division 2023 Central Section football tournament has been finalized. 

The games kick off Friday and concludes Nov. 24. The champions (other than 8-person) advance to the CIF State Northern Regional championships on Dec. 1-2. State championships — winners of the regional finals — take place Dec. 8-9 at three different venues: Pasadena College, El Camino College-Torance and Saddleback College-Mission Viejo. 

Defending Central Section champions are Liberty (Division 1), Lemoore (D2), Kennedy (D3), Shafter (D4), Atascadero (D5), Mendota (D6) and 8-player (Fresno Christian). 

Top seeds in the 2023 brackets are Clovis North (D1), Central Valley Christian (D2), Mission Prep (D3), Shafter (D4), Bishop Union (D5), Arvin (D6) and Tulelake (8-person). 

(2023 CIF Central Section football brackets)

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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.

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