Colorado high school football playoff scores, live updates for Fort Collins-area games

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Colorado high school football playoff scores, live updates for Fort Collins-area games

Friday Night Live is ready for some (playoff) football.

Northern Colorado is well represented in the CHSAA football playoffs, with Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain (Class 5A) and Loveland (4A) among several NoCo teams opening the postseason.

Plus, No. 1 Windsor wraps up its 3A regular season and Wellington finds out its potential 2A quarterfinal opponent from Friday-night action.

Coloradoan reporter Chris Abshire and photographer Logan Newell will be posted up at French Field with live updates from No. 13 Fort Collins hosting No. 20 ThunderRidge in the 5A first round.

This is the Coloradoan’s weekly high school football live updates blog, where we share all the latest scores, highlights, updates, and more for Fort Collins-area football teams.

Fans, we encourage you to join, too!

Send in all the videos, tweets/posts, scores, Instagram reels, TikToks and more from your favorite team’s games to sports reporter Chris Abshire (X: @ChrisAbshire, email: ChrisAbshire@coloradoan.com). We’d love to share them.

Follow here for scores and live updates from CHSAA playoff/Week 11 action in the Fort Collins area and across Northern Colorado high school football:

Colorado football’s leading 5A rusher in action tonight

The most productive running back in Colorado 5A football this season will hit the field tonight for a first-round playoff game.

Fort Collins’ Jack McKeon finished the season as the classification’s leading rusher (by over 270 yards) and top scorer (23 TDs). He was also our Blue Federal Credit Union Football Player of the Week.

Fort Collins' Jack McKeon(3) and Justin Cranford(17) celebrate during the Canvas Classic high school football rivalry game against Fossil Ridge High School on Sept. 26, 2025 at CSU's Canvas Stadium in Fort Collins, Colo.

— Chris Abshire

Fort Collins-area high school football games to watch

  • 5A first round: No. 13 Fort Collins vs. No. 20 ThunderRidge (7 p.m.)
  • 5A first round: No. 23 Rocky Mountain at No. 10 Mullen (7 p.m.)
  • 4A first round: No. 19 Loveland at No. 14 Mesa Ridge (7 p.m.)
  • 2A first round: No. 10 Denver West at No. 7 Resurrection Christian (7 p.m.)
  • 3A No. 1 Windsor at Greeley Central (7 p.m.)

Fort Collins comes out on to the field before a high school football game against Fairview on Oct. 10, 2025 at French Field in Fort Collins, Colo.

— Chris Abshire

Timnath may have locked up first playoff berth

The Cubs finished the regular season on Nov. 6, crushing Northridge 62-6. That win wrapped up the program’s first-ever winning season with a 6-4 overall record, 3-2 in league play.

It should be enough for Timnath to make its playoff debut in the team’s fourth season since the school opened in Aug. 2022. As of Friday afternoon, Timnath is No. 14 in CHSAA’s seeding index, firmly inside the 16-team 3A field.

Timnath's football team comes off the field during a high school football game against Timnath at PSD Stadium on Oct. 24, 2025 in Timnath, Colo.

— Chris Abshire

Chris Abshire covers high school and community sports for the Coloradoan.

This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Colorado high school football playoff scores, CHSAA updates for Week 11

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