The Grove City High School football team thought it would know its playoff fate Sunday night.

But the District 10 committee in charge of filling out the four-team, Class AAA playoff field decided to take a pass until next week.

That makes the Eagles' final home game against Brookville at 7 p.m. Friday all the more pivotal.

"It really doesn't change much," said Grove City coach Jeff Bell. "You don't want to enter the playoffs with a loss anyway. We planned on treating it like a playoff game regardless."

But now it truly may be a playoff game for the Eagles (6-2), who have won six straight games after losing their first two to Harbor Creek (7-1) and Greenville (6-2).

Grove City is competing against Region 4 team Fort LeBoeuf (6-2), which has had the same kind of season as the Eagles, for the final playoff spot.

Four teams make the District 10, Class AAA playoffs. The Region 4 and 3 winners earn automatic bids. The other two are at-large selections.

Greenville in Region 3 and North East in Region 4 have already received automatic bids.

The committee was unable to choose the final two teams in Class AAA Sunday, so it decided to consider the events of the final week, too.

But if Grove City loses and Fort LeBoeuf trips up against Iroquis (5-2), Wilmington (5-2) may get another shot at the playoff field.

Bell, though, considers his team a co-Region 3 champion and believes his team should get a bid into the playoffs.

"The argument is we lost to Greenville head-to-head," Bell said. "But we beat Hickory and Greenville lost to Hickory. That's my argument. I hope I don't have to use it."

At issue is the vagueness of the playoff selection process.

"There is nothing in writing," Bell said. "They didn't set it up at the beginning of the year."

No tiebreaker system is in place and no criteria for making the playoffs was made known to the coaches, Bell said.

"They said they would look at everything," Bell said. "I guess they are."

Right now, though, Bell's only focus is Brookville.

Grove City has five shutouts in its six-game losing streak and plays a Brookville team that has been an enigma this season.

The Raiders have won two in a row after a 1-5 start. They beat Wellsboro 38-13 two weeks ago before toppling Punxsutawney 22-16 last week.

In that game, Max Kutz rushed for 79 yards and a touchdown, but the running game has sputtered all season for Brookville.

Quarterback Nick Heschke has thrown for more the 700 yards and is completing better than 40 percent of his passes.

"It's going to be a good game," Bell said. "Brookville is a lot better than they were earlier in the season."

Bell has his own weapons.

Jim Jaskowak has excelled in recent weeks and has thrown for 859 yards and six scores this season.

Grove City's running game is by committee with three backs gaining better than 300 yards. Jesse Alfreno, who is equally as dangerous as a receiver, leads the team with 397 yards rushing.

If Grove City does make the playoffs, it will have a week off before the playoffs, as every team in District 10 does.

Clarion at A-C Valley, 7 p.m. Friday -

The Falcons (3-5, 1-5) will be playing for pride after last week's 21-0 defeat to Keystone knocked them from District 9 Class AA playoff contention.

"The playoffs are an open tournament," said A-C Valley coach Randy Lemmon. "But (we said we needed five wins), so we aren't going."

The Bobcats (6-2, 5-1) will compete in the district's Class A postseason field and will look to this game as a tune-up.

Both teams rely on the ground game to generate most of their offensive yards.

Clarion junior running back Chris McSwain surpassed the 1,000-yard plateau last week in a 35-7 victory over Moniteau. He currently has 1,089 yards and 11 touchdowns.

"We saw two tapes of him," said Lemmon. "They were of games against Clarion-Limestone and Clearfield and that's pretty tough competition.

"I'd say he's definitely one of the best backs in the conference."

A-C Valley's Rocco Crapis has rushed for 723 yards and 11 touchdowns.

The Falcons will attempt to tally four wins in a season for the first time since 2000.