Pope High School will host Pace Academy and Hughes at Pope Stadium in Marietta on Monday in this week's featured tripleheader on GPB.org.

The playoff fun and race to Mercedes Benz Stadium starts this week. Here are some of the best first-round games that will be featured. 

An additional off week before the playoffs begin leaves some teams idle for too long. Meanwhile we're ready to start the final season with predetermined state playoff brackets -- although the new Postseason Rankings are far from perfect.