Five local high schools have advanced to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state football playoffs.

The playoffs begin on Friday night. All games are scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

There are six rounds of the state playoffs, with the state championships scheduled for Dec. 20-21. The state championship games will be split between N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill.

Carolina 1-A Conference champion North Duplin (9-0) received a No. 2-seed and a bye in the 1-A state playoffs. The Rebels will host the winner of East Bladen and Southeast Halifax in the second round on Nov. 22.

Fellow Carolina 1-A Conference member Rosewood (5-5) earned a 13-seed and will host conference foe Hobbton (3-7) in the first round. The Eagles defeated Hobbton 39-12 on Oct. 4.

Neuse 6 2-A Conference champion Eastern Wayne (8-2) will be a 7-seed in the 2-A playoffs and will host 26th-seeded Northwood (6-4) in the first round.

The Warriors won seven straight games to finish the regular season after starting 1-2.

Eastern Wayne will be seeking to win nine games in a season for the first time since 2014 when it finished 11-3, and reached the fourth round of the state playoffs.

Princeton (6-4) finished second in the Neuse 6 2-A Conference and is a 23-seed in the 2-A state playoffs. The Bulldogs visit 10th-seeded East Carteret (6-4) in the first round.

Princeton defeated East Carteret 62-7 in the first round of the 2019 1-A state playoffs.

Quad County 3-A Conference champion C.B. Aycock (10-0) received a 4-seed in the 3-A state playoffs.

The Golden Falcons will host 29-seed Eastern Alamance (3-7) on Friday. The game can be heard on 98.3 FM WGBR and streaming live on Goldsborodailynews.com.

Aycock is 10-0 for the first time in school history. The Golden Falcons won 10 games just two other times, in 1981 and 2009, but did not start 10-0 in either of those seasons.

Aycock has never won 11 games in a season.

To view the complete high school football playoff brackets visit the NCHSAA website.