Telegraph photo by TOM KING Nashua North's Jack Peters (44) flies in to help teammate Kobey Marshall (9) tackle Londonderry's Connor Howe during Friday night's Titans win at Stellos Stadium.

It’s a fall of uncertainty.

Local high school football teams had to endure a lot of that uncertainty with the NHIAA football setup, short schedules, etc.

Right now, nothing was announced officially, but you will figure in Division I Nashua North, Nashua South, Bishop Guertin and Merrimack will be lumped together in the first round (the regular West Conference).

Bishop Guertin enjoyed a 28-0 play-in win the other night at Keene. Alvirne will be in with Londonderry, Salem and Windham in the South. Alvirne (0-4) will have to be at either Salem or Londonderry. The guess here is at Salem, which beat the Broncos 46-12 in the season opener.

“You don’t know, but that’s the year we’re in,” Laurendi said. “It’s the year we’re in. The year of the unexpected, and even will be after we know the seeds.

“We’ll just go along as far as we (can).”

Unofficially, you probably will see North host Bishop Guertin at Stellos and Nashua South travel to Merrimack, both on Friday night, but again, clearly unofficial. However, the Titans have a 6:30 p.m. game with BG at Stellos on their website calendar.

“Just move on to the next day, and we’ll see who we play in week one of the playoffs,” North QB Curtis Harris-Lopez said after Friday’s 36-7 win over the Lancers. “They’re a great team. I’m sure we’ll see them again.”

One of the key plays of Friday night’s win was a 29-yard run by Jayden Espinal that jump started the Titan offense.

“He’s one of our key players,” Harris-Lopez said. “Once he hits the hole, he just did what he’s supposed to do.”

“He’s a heckuva athlete,” Laurendi said. “He ran really hard, he’s seeing the holes. …. He did a good job sticking his foot in the ground and heading north-south.”

Meanwhile, North is quietly keeping opponents’ offenses at bay.

“Defensively, we continue to play well and run to the football,” Laurendi said. “We’re doing a really good job up front, we’re doing a good job in the early downs, creating some long downs and distances, putting people in situations they don’t want to be in. They’ve been doing that the last three games, hopefully they keep it up.”

South-Merrimack would be a great matchup after the two teams did not play as scheduled earlier in the season due to virus concerns. The Panthers seem to be hitting their stride with two straight wins, including this past weekend’s eye-opening rout of Bedford.

DIVISION II

Souhegan will no doubt be a favorite, going through the season at 5-0. The Sabers biggest challenge arguably came from Hollis Brookline in the opener and Bishop Guertin in the second game

The Sabers will be the top seed in their schedule cluster, which likely means a rematch with either 2-3 Timberlane or 1-2 Milford, and Hollis Brookline (2-2).

DIVISION III

Campbell coach Glenn Costello knows he has a young team that has potential going into this week’s playoffs, likely at Pelham.

“I’ve seen glimpses of a pretty dangerous team,” Costello said. “Offensively and defensively, and our special teams have been really good at times. We also make a lot of mistakes that a young team makes.”

The Cougars likely will be lumped in, for short travel purposes, with their schedule cluster of Trinity, Monadnock, and Pelham. Given their 2-3 mark, it’s likely they’ll have to visit Pelham in the quarterfinals while Trinity battles Monadnock. But again, nothing is official until later today.

“We have to win the mental game,” Costello said. “I think we have some talented football players, we just put ourselves in bad positions with penalties and turnovers. … If we want to make a run at it, we have to clean up all that stuff.”

Pelham(5-0 overall) looms as the favorite.

“We’ve got a shot,” Trinity coach Rob Cathcart said. “Pelham looks awfully good, they may be tough to beat. We’ll take things one at a time.”

As Laurendi said, that’s the only way to do it in this strange and unique season.