The Daily Journal area has seen plenty of teams flex their muscles locally – and beyond – for nine weeks, as evidenced by a whopping 10 of the area’s 15 schools finding themselves in IHSA or Illinois 8-Man Football Association playoff brackets.

Those teams have made it in all sorts of ways. In town, Bradley-Bourbonnais and Kankakee have both continued a pattern of recent success. The Boilermakers are in the second season for the fourth straight year after they finished the regular season at 8-1 and split the Red Division of the Southwest Valley Conference with Lincoln-Way Central and Lincoln-Way West, including one of the best road wins in the state at West in Week 8.

Normally in Class 7A, the Boilers will play in Class 6A for the first time ever.

The Kays saw their six-game winning

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