The penultimate week of football has come, and the playoff chances for Kane County teams are starting to fully take shape.

Three teams have claimed a spot in the field of 256 with their sixth win, while four teams enter the week knocking on the door of clinching with five wins apiece.

But for two teams, an excruciating loss in Week 7 has put them in a win or go home situation.

Here is where teams stand heading into Week 8 of the football season.

Locked in

St. Charles North (6-1 32 playoff points)

Although a 33-7 loss to Wheaton Warrenville South did end the North Stars’ hopes of their first undefeated regular season in program history, it doesn’t shake them from the playoffs or of their goal of repeating as DuKane Conference champions. The North Stars will hope to keep that latter g

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