WVSSAC Ratings: Tigers up three spots to 12 th in AAA, Wildcats tied for 16 th in AA
WVSSAC Ratings: Tigers up three spots to 12 th in AAA, Wildcats tied for 16 th in AA
Bill Lusk | WVOW Sports
PARKERSBURG The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission
released its final weekly football ratings Tuesday afternoon entering the final week of the
2026 regular season.
The final set of ratings, which will determine the 16 team WVSSAC playoff field, will be
released Saturday evening with dates and times for all first-round games announced
Sunday.
Entering the final week of the regular season, two Logan County teams have put
themselves in position to qualify for the postseason in their respective classifications.
Following its 23-15 win over Class AA No. 10 Mingo Central, the Chapmanville Tigers
rose three spots to 12 th in this week’s rankings. The Tigers travel to winless St. Albans
Friday evening, and with a win over the Class AAA Red Dragons, the Tigers will clinch a
playoff berth for the third consecutive season.
Logan returns to the top 16 after a 42-8 win over winless Class AAA St. Albans last
week. The Wildcats moved from 18 th to a 16 th place tie with Berkeley Springs. Logan
host Westside Friday night where a win will guarantee the Wildcats a second
consecutive Class AA playoff berth, however, a loss and Logan’s season will end the
Wildcats season.
Entering the final week of the regular season, 44 of the 64 playoff spots have been
clinched across the WVSSAC’s four classifications, 11 each in Class AAAA, AAA, AA
and A.
Five spots remain up for grabs with seven teams still alive in Class AAAA while 11
remain in the hunt in Class AAA and eight and nine respectively in Class AA and Class
A.
The top eight schools will host a playoff game in the round of 16. In total, seven of the
top eight seeds have been clinched in Class AAAA and AAA, leaving one final spot for
home field in each classification while three schools each have earned the right to host
in Class AA and A.
In Class AAAA, Martinsburg is at the top of the ratings followed by George Washington,
University, Cabell Midland and Morgantown.
Musselman is sixth followed by Huntington, Spring Mills, Woodrow Wilson and
Parkersburg.
Jefferson is ranked 11 th followed by Washington, Wheeling Park, Buckhannon-Upshur,
Hurricane and Hedgesville, who sits in the final playoff spot in Class AAAA.
Parkersburg South (17 th ) and Preston (18 th ) remain alive in the playoff picture while
Riverside (19 th ) and Oak Hill (20 th ) have been eliminated from postseason contention.
In Class AAA, Herbert Hoover remains atop the AAA rankings and has clinched the
overall top seed regardless of the outcome of Friday’s night showdown at Class AAAA
No. 7 Huntington.
Bridgeport is second followed by South Charleston, Elkins, and Princeton, rounding out
the top five. The top five teams in Class AAA along with North Marion and Winfield, who
are tied for sixth, have locked up home field advantage in the first round.
Rounding out the top 10 is Robert C. Byrd, John Marshall and Spring Valley. Ripley is
11 th followed by Chapmanville, three-win Fairmont Senior, Keyser and Nicholas County.
Brooke holds the final playoff spot entering the final week ahead of PikeView in 17 th ,
Grafton 18 th , Capital 19 th and Hampshire rounding out the top 20.
Point Pleasant (21 st ) and Nitro (23 rd ) remain in contention for the final playoff spot.
Despite having its 36-game winning streak snapped at the hands of Independence, two-
time reigning Class AA champion Frankfort continues to hold down the top spot and is
one of three teams that have clinched a first-round home game in the playoffs.
Williamstown is second followed by Sissonville, Independence and Bluefield.
Williamstown and Bluefield are the other two schools to have secured a first-round
home game.
Roane County is sixth, Philip Barbour seventh, Doddridge County eighth, Lincoln ninth
and James Monroe 10 th .
Liberty (Raleigh) is 11 th but needs a win to clinch a Class AA playoff berth followed by
Mingo Central, who has locked up a postseason bid for the second consecutive season
and third time in the last four years, is 12 th followed by South Harrison, Clay County,
Moorefield and Berkeley Springs and Logan currently tied for the 16 th and final playoff
spot in Class AA.
Westside (18 th ) and Braxton County (20 th ) remain mathematically alive for the playoffs.
Despite a 19 th place ranking, Petersburg is mathematically eliminated from postseason
contention.
In Class A, the top three schools, led by top-ranked Wahama, second ranked East
Hardy and third ranked Tug Valley have locked up homefield advantage in the first
round.
Sherman, fourth in Class A, fifth ranked Pendleton County, sixth ranked Wheeling
Central, seventh ranked Meadow Bridge, eighth ranked Ritchie County, ninth ranked
Greenbrier West, 10 th ranked Cameron and 11 th ranked St. Marys have clinched playoff
berths.
Montcalm, ranked 12 th , is in contention for its first ever playoff berth followed by co-No.
13s Clay-Battelle and Webster County, and 15 th ranked Tucker County.
Tolsia holds the final playoff spot, but the Rebels, having concluded the regular season
at 4-6, must sit and watch the results of Friday’s games to learn their postseason fate.
Rounding out the top 20, and still alive in the playoff hunt are Calhoun County,
Pocahontas County, Gilmer County and Magnolia.
