As state quarterfinals begin in NC high school football, who’s No. 1 in the Triangle?

Alex Bass
Steven Worthy/newsobserver.com

And then there were three!

Three teams from the Raleigh-Durham area remain alive in the North Carolina state high school football playoffs, and all at the 4A level. In fact, the top two teams on our Sweet 16 list will face one another this weekend.

Rolesville upended rival Wake Forest in the one game that created a standings shuffle this week, and ended the Cougars’ season.

No. 1 Hillside — also the No. 1 seed in the East bracket of the NCHSAA 4A tournament, dispatched Pine Forest 28-7 last week to earn a matchup against No. 2 in our poll (No. 12 NCHSAA 4A East) Millbrook. The aforementioned Rolesville Rams will travel to No. 2-seed New Bern in the other East 4A semifinal.

Here are this week’s rankings:

Triangle Sweet 16

Rk.

School

Class

Record

1.

Hillside

NCHSAA 4A

13-0

2.

Millbrook

NCHSAA 4A

12-1

3.

Rolesville

NCHSAA 4A

11-2

4.

Wake Forest

NCHSAA 4A

10-3

5.

Cleveland

NCHSAA 4A

11-1

6.

Cardinal Gibbons

NCHSAA 4A

9-3

7.

Southern Durham

NCHSAA 3A

8-5

8.

Jordan

NCHSAA 4A

6-7

9.

Apex

NCHSAA 4A

10-2

10.

Leesville Road

NCHSAA 4A

9-3

11.

Ravenscroft

NCISAA

10-2

12.

Holly Springs

NCHSAA 4A

9-2

13.

Panther Creek

NCHSAA 4A

7-4

14.

Heritage

NCHSAA 4A

7-4

15.

Smithfield-Selma

NCHSAA 3A

9-2

16.

Knightdale

NCHSAA 4A

6-5

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