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VIDEO: New Week 9 episode of “Sun-Times Game Week”

By Staff Report

As we head into Week 9 of the high school football season, it’s all about the playoffs. On today’s ‘Sun-Times Game Week” show, we’ll take a look at which teams need a win to make the playoffs plus our preps team will predict possible top seeds. Also on today’s show:

-A new “Player of the Week”

-Updated Super 25 Rankings

-Look back at the big games in Week 8 including Cary Grove vs Prairie Ridge

-The latest hoops news including the venue for the Jordan brand shoot-out plus Michael O’Brien’s team “twitter previews.”

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