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While the Louisiana High School Sports Association regular football season has ended, eight area schools in Calcasieu Parish have advanced to the playoffs.
With the first round of the playoffs, the bi-district round, starting on Thursday, Barbe High School, Sulphur High School, Sam Houston High School, Iowa High School, Vinton High School, DeQuincy High School, Lake Charles College Prep and St. Louis Catholic High School will be competing for statewide titles.
For the 2026 regular season, Barbe High School Buccaneers finished with a 9-1 record and nabbed the No. 2 seed in Division I Non-select.
The Buccaneers enter the first week of playoffs with a bye. In week two, Barbe will play whoever wins between No. 15 seed Airline High School and No. 18 seed Central High School.
During the 2025 season, the Barbe Buccaneers secured the No. 26 seed with a 5-5 record and lost 42-0 to Neville High School in the quarterfinals.
Finishing the regular season with a 5-5 record, the Sulphur High School Golden Tornadoes secured the No. 25 seed for Division I Non-select.
The Golden Tornadoes are set to play an away game at 7 p.m. on Friday against No. 8 Zachary High School.
For the 2025 season, the Sulphur Golden Tornadoes finished with a 2-8 record and didn’t make it to the playoffs.
The Sam Houston High School Broncos finished the 2026 regular season with a 4-6 record and have landed the No. 26 seed for Division I Non-select.
The Broncos will be playing an away game at 7 p.m. Friday against the No. 7 seed Hahnville High School.
Sam Houston’s appearance in the playoffs will follow last year’s 3-7 season, when they didn’t go to the playoffs.
Coming off an undefeated 2025 season where they took home the Division II Non-select state title, the Iowa High School Yellow Jackets secured the No. 10 seed for the division for 2026 with a 6-3 record.
The Yellow Jackets are set to face DeRidder High School on Friday at home against No. 23 seed DeRidder High School, who have a 6-4 record.
In the last regular-season game, Iowa faced DeRidder in an away game where the Yellow Jackets won 49-0.
With an undefeated 10-0 2026 regular season, the Vinton High School Lions secured the No. 2 seed for Division IV Non-select.
Being the No. 2 seed, the Lions have a bye week for the first week of the playoffs. For the regionals in week two of the playoffs, Vinton will either face No. 15 seed Homer High School or No. 18 seed East Beauregard High School.
In the last regular season game, the Vinton Lions beat East Beauregard 28-0 in overtime.
The Lions have been rebuilding the team after almost losing it in 2022. The 2026 season is its third time making it to the playoffs in the last three years. In 2025, they lost to Jonesboro-Hodge High School 33-39 during the second round of playoffs.
The DeQuincy High School Tigers finished the 2026 regular season with a 2-8 record and secured the No. 26 seed in Division IV Non-select.
DeQuincy is set to play against Haynesville High School in an away game at 7 p.m. on Friday.
In the 2025 playoffs, the Lions lost in the first round to Vinton High School, 28-0.
The Lake Charles College Prep Tigers closed out the 2026 regular season with a 9-1 record, securing themselves the No. 2 seed in the Division II Select.
Having earned the No. 2 spot, the Tigers for the Division will have a bye week during the first round of playoffs. The team will be facing either the No. 15 seed E.D. White High School or No. 18 seed George Washington Carver during the week of Nov. 19-21, according to the bracket.
Lake Charles College Prep made it to the third round of the playoffs during the 2025 season and lost 28-31 against Vanderbilt Catholic High School.
With a 3-7 record for the regular season, the St. Louis Catholic High School Saints received the No. 22 seed for the Division III Select playoffs.
The Saints will be playing an away game against No. 11 seed Bunkie High School at 7 p.m. Friday.
During the 2025 postseason, the Saints lost in the first round of the playoffs, 20-59, against Northlake Christian High School.