Below are the Georgia high school football playoff teams given no better than a 50% chance of making the postseason in preseason by the Maxwell Ratings.

Locust Grove and Screven County won region championships. Locust Grove, judged the longest shot at 3%, is in the playoffs for the first time since 2018 and just two seasons removed from ending a 26-game losing streak.

  • 3.0% - Locust Grove
  • 3.4% - Beach
  • 3.7% - Griffin
  • 5.3% - North Clayton
  • 5.3% - Seckinger
  • 5.6% - Richmond Academy
  • 8.0% - Franklin County
  • 8.1% - Randolph-Clay
  • 8.4% - Lithonia
  • 8.5% - KIPP Atlanta Collegiate
  • 9.6% - Mount Zion (Jonesboro)
  • 10.3% - Oglethorpe County
  • 12.2% - Screven County
  • 13.0% - Paulding County
  • 14.5% - Dalton
  • 16.4% - M.L. King
  • 20.2% - Woodstock
  • 20.5% - Lanier County
  • 22.6% - Chamblee
  • 23.2% - Berrien
  • 25.2% - Gordon Central
  • 25.4% - Towers
  • 25.8% - Treutlen
  • 27.5% - Northgate
  • 28.0% - Centennial
  • 28.0% - Dougherty
  • 28.1% - Chattahoochee County
  • 30.3% - Columbus
  • 32.5% - GMC Prep
  • 35.2% - Statesboro
  • 36.0% - Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe
  • 37.7% - Pickens
  • 38.3% - East Laurens
  • 38.3% - Haralson County
  • 40.8% - Westside (Augusta)
  • 41.3% - Dacula
  • 42.9% - New Manchester
  • 49.1% - McNair
  • 50.0% - North Forsyth

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