LIVE coverage of the first round of the high school football playoffs

It just got serious. The high school football playoffs have arrived. Sixteen local teams start their quests for a CIF-SS title, and maybe even a state championship, on Friday night.

Tonight's CIF-SS first-round football schedule

Division 3: St. Bonaventure at San Jacinto

Division 5: Temecula Valley at Oaks Christian

The Star's Joe Curley and Dominic Massimino spent Sunday afternoon breaking down the postseason brackets, interviewing nine current and former head coaches, including Pacifica's Mike Moon, Newbury Park's Joe Smigiel, Moorpark's Christian Dearborn, Oak Park's Casey Webb, Fillmore's Charlie Weis, Grace's Tom Coate, Del Sol's James Nelson and former Nordhoff, St. Bonaventure and Westlake coach Tony Henney. You can watch the full show on the @vcspreps YouTube page .

The fact that Nordhoff quarterback Michael Dennie is starting tonight for the Rangers is already one of the stories of the postseason. The senior was feared lost for the season when he broke his throwing hand last month. Read how he's been able to overcome his injury here .

Jostradamus tackles the first-round schedule

After meeting his goal of picking 80% of the games during the regular season, Jostradamus tackles the first-round schedule, while also pointing out which local teams are getting healthy at the right time. Check out all his picks here .

The Star's Joe Curley ranked all 25 teams as the regular season ended and playoffs began. See who made The Star's Super 10 high school football rankings entering the postseason here .

Sixteen of the 25 local teams were selected to the CIF-SS football playoffs Sunday. Read here who's in and who's out.