These are the projections for the 2A East bracket for the 2024 NCHSAA football playoffs.

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2A East Football Projection

Time of last update — Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 12:39 p.m.

Automatic bids

• Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or “best win”). If projections are updated before conference play begins, we use RPI to project the conference champion.
• Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.

**Big East 1-seed: Roanoke Rapids
#Coastal Plains 1-seed: East Carteret
East Central champ: James Kenan
East Central 2nd place: Kinston
Eastern Plains champ: SouthWest Edgecombe
Eastern Plains 2nd place: North Pitt
#Four Rivers 1-seed: Martin County
*Mid-Carolina champ: Southeast Alamance
*Mid-Carolina 2-seed: Cummings
Neuse 6 champ: Eastern Wayne
Neuse 6 2nd place: Princeton
**Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: Northeastern
**Northeastern Coastal 2-seed: Hertford County
**Northern Lakes champ: J.F. Webb
Southeastern Athletic champ: Midway
Southeastern 2nd place: St. Pauls
*Super Six champ: NCSSM: Durham
*Waccamaw champ: Heide Trask

*-Split conference with 1A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.

**-Split conference with 3A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.

#-East Carteret and Martin County are the only 2As in a split conference with 1A schools and therefore must finish in the top two in the conference standings OR finish with an overall win percentage of .500 or better to be seeded with the 1-seeds

Last five in, first five out

• Note: We will start to implement the “no leapfrogging” stipulation two weeks before official brackets come out. This rule prevents a team from making the playoffs over a team that it finished behind in the final conference standings. Once this process is implemented, there could be changes towards the bottom of the field.

In:

28. East Carteret
29. East Duplin
30. Bunn
31. Seaforth
32. Princeton

Out:

1. Spring Creek
2. Louisburg
3. Bartlett Yancey
4. North Johnston
5. Jordan-Matthews

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) James Kenan vs (32) Princeton
(16) Farmville Central vs (17) Nash Central
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(8) Eastern Wayne vs (25) Wallace-Rose Hill
(9) Martin County vs (24) South Columbus
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(5) Northeastern vs (28) East Carteret
(12) Whiteville vs (21) Holmes
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(13) West Craven vs (20) Hertford County
(4) Roanoke Rapids vs (29) East Duplin

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(3) Southeast Alamance vs (30) Bunn
(14) Greene Central vs (19) Cummings
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(6) Midway vs (27) Pasquotank County
(11) North Pitt vs (22) North Lenoir
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(7) Heide Trask​​​​​​​ vs (26) Southwest Onslow
(10) J.F. Webb vs (23) Manteo
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(15) St. Pauls vs (18) Kinston
(2) SouthWest Edgecombe​​​​​​​ vs (31) Seaforth

HighSchoolOT also has projections for volleyball, boys’ soccer, and girls’ tennis, below:

Source: highschoolot.com