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CIF-LA City Section 2023 football playoff brackets: Scores, matchups, game times — Birmingham is Open Division No. 1 seed

The three-time defending Open Division champion is the No. 1 seed and will play Narbonne on Nov. 9

Tarek Fattal, SBLive Sports

Birmingham is the team to beat yet again.

The Patriots (8-2) received the No. 1 seed in the City Section Open Division football playoffs and will take on No. 8 Narbonne (4-6) on Nov. 9.

The Open Division field is made up of eight teams. Here are the other matchups.

  • No. 2 Garfield  (9-1) vs. No. 7 San Pedro (5-4)
  • No. 3 Gardena (9-1) vs. No. 6 Palisades (7-2)
  • No. 5 Granada Hills (7-2-1) vs. No. 4 Carson (9-1)

The top seeded teams will host first-round games. 

Banning received the No. 1 seed in Division I. Other top seeds: Arleta (Division 2), Bell (D3) and Fulton (8-person). 

Other defending champions are Granada Hills Charter (D1), Kennedy (D2), Crenshaw (D3) and Fulton (8-person).  

The LA City Section champions (other than 8-person) advance to the CIF State Southern Regional championships on Dec. 1-2. 

State championships — winners of the regional finals — take place Dec. 8-9 at three different venues: Pasadena College, El Camino College-Torrance and Saddleback College-Mission Viejo. 

CIF-LA City Section 2023 football brackets

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Tarek Fattal, SBLive Sports
TAREK FATTAL, SBLIVE SPORTS

Tarek Fattal has been covering high school sports since 2015 in Southern California and primarily in Los Angeles, covering notable athletes such as Bronny James, Kayvon Thibodeaux and Alyssa Thompson. He was with the LA Daily News for eight years, which included being the beat reporter for the UCLA men's basketball team. Tarek can be seen on TV regularly on CBS/KCAL as a sports analyst with Jim Hill.

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