State championship week is in the books! The NCHSAA crowned high school football state champions across eight classifications over three days Dec. 11-13, with games played at UNC’s Kenan Stadium, Lenoir-Rhyne’s Moretz Stadium and Durham County Memorial Stadium.
This page features scores and updates from all eight games across the 1A-8A divisions. Recaps of each state title game are posted below the live scoreboard.
▶️ Updated: Saturday, December 13, 2025 | 11:47 p.m.
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State Championship Tracker
8A: Hough def. Millbrook 21-0
7A: Grimsley def. Clayton 24-14
6A: Watauga def. Middle Creek 47-25
5A: Crest def. Hunt 31-14
4A: Reidsville def. Brevard 50-20
3A: Shelby def. Kinston 84-41
2A: Tarboro def. Murphy 22-0
1A: Wilson Prep def. Robbinsville 9-8
West: 5 Titles
East: 3 Titles
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🏈 North Carolina High School Football Scores: NCHSAA State Championships (Dec. 11-13, 2025)
Below are scores from this week’s NCHSAA 1A-8A state championship action. Games that were streamed on NFHS Network are designated by “Watch Replay” icons (subscription required).
| WATCH | AWAY | SCORE | HOME | SCORE | START/STATUS | NOTES | ||
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| Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 | ||||||||
| 1A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Robbinsville | 8 | (4) Wilson Prep | 9 | FINAL | |||
| 8A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Hough | 21 | (1) Millbrook | 0 | FINAL | |||
| Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 | ||||||||
| 6A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Watauga | 47 | (3) Middle Creek | 25 | FINAL | |||
| 7A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Grimsley | 24 | (2) Clayton | 14 | FINAL | |||
| Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 | ||||||||
| 4A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Brevard | 20 | (1) Reidsville | 50 | FINAL | |||
| 3A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (10) Shelby | 84 | (14) Kinston | 41 | FINAL | |||
| 2A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (1) Murphy | 0 | (1) Tarboro | 22 | FINAL | |||
| 5A CHAMPIONSHIP | ||||||||
| ▶️ Watch Replay | (4) Crest | 31 | (1) Hunt | 14 | FINAL |
📰 State Championship Game Recaps
3A: Crest returns to championship ways, cruises past Hunt 31-14
Cleveland County football teams had a great Saturday at Durham County Memorial Stadium. Crest High from Boiling Springs gave the county a sweep of state title games in Durham, surging past James Hunt 31-14 to conclude NCHSAA championship weekend. Shelby High beat Kinston earlier in the day on the same field.
Crest (13-2) claimed its seventh state title all-time, its first in a decade and the first-ever in the NCHSAA’s new 5A classification.
Quarterback Ely Hamrick, who has signed to play at Virginia, earned game MVP honors, directing an attack that generated 555 yards of offense. Hamrick rushed for two scores. The Charlotte Observer noted that Hamrick’s dad quarterbacked Crest to a state title more than three decades ago.
Michael Edwards earned offensive MVP honors, rushing for 95 yards and two scores.
The Crest defense proved just as big of a story Saturday night, holding the Warriors well below their 36.8 points-per-game average. Hunt quarterback Mez Harris did not complete a pass, though he did rush for a pair of TDs, the first giving the Warriors an early 7-0 lead. Chris Gunter from Crest was voted defensive MVP.
Hunt finishes its season 12-3, winning a couple of nailbiters in the early rounds of the playoffs to reach the 5A final.
2A: Tarboro ‘T’ collects another state championship ‘W’
A senior-laden Tarboro football team claimed the school’s third NCHSAA state championship of the 2020s, blanking Murphy 22-0 in the 2A title game Saturday evening at Lenoir-Rhyne’s Moretz Stadium.
Future Elon running back Kamerin McDowell-Moore scored all three of Tarboro’s touchdowns, including a 70-yarder to start the second half and push the lead to 12-0. McDowell-Moore, who has thrived in the “Tarboro T” version of the Wing-T offense, finished with 190 yards rushing and earned game MVP status for the second year in a row.
The Vikings’ defense recorded its seventh shutout of the season. McDowell-Moore had a hand in that as well, posting 15 tackles. Amarion Andrews was named defensive MVP, while Donovan Willis notched a safety to add to the scoring.
Tarboro has been the standard for small-schools high school football over the past decade. The Vikings have played in a state championship game every season since 2017, winning six titles in that span. The Vikings have 10 overall state titles as a program.
Tarboro’s 2025 bunch finished 15-0, posting wins against 3A runner-up Kinston and 5A runner-up Hunt.
Murphy, which has a stellar small-schools football tradition of its own, concludes the 2025 campaign with a 12-3 record. Camden Breazeale logged 11 tackles to lead the Bulldogs’ defense.
Get ready, Elon fans! Kamerin McDowell-Moore scored three TDs today, leading Tarboro to the 2A state championship over Murphy.
— NC Football News (@NCFootballNews) December 14, 2025
2,000+ rushing yards, 30+ TDs this season. Love seeing great players staying in-state! https://t.co/6kRAKoUE2M
3A: Shelby Lions roar past Kinston 84-41 in highest scoring title game ever
Raleigh beat Asheville 117-0 more than a century ago in one of the first high school state championship games in North Carolina history. Until Saturday, that remained the highest scoring title game in the state annals.
Shelby and Kinston rewrote that record – and several others – with the Lions racing to an 84-41 triumph to claim the NCHSAA 3A state title at Durham County Memorial Stadium. Shelby claimed its 13th state championship in football, completing a dream season after an 0-2 start and entering the playoffs as a No. 10 seed.
Shelby senior Lan Farmer put together an astounding offensive stat line in becoming Cleveland County’s all-time leading passer: 20-of-27 completions, 459 yards and eight (!) touchdowns. He also rushed for two scores en route to game MVP honors. Farmer is still unsigned and uncommitted to a college program, but that may change in the near future.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Kinston receiver Tyreek Copper – an NC State signee – became North Carolina’s new record-holder for single-season receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Copper finished with seven catches for 229 yards and three TDs. His 33 TD receptions edges Mohamed Massaquoi’s 32 for the new state mark. He finished with 2,300+ receiving yards, eclipsing the previous record held by Sage Surratt of 2,104.
Watching Shelby-Kinston state championship game – it's now 49-35 with 4:37 left in the second quarter – starting to remind me of this story from October 2023:https://t.co/yVkgNzA5on
— NC Football News (@NCFootballNews) December 13, 2025
Lions-Eagles won't threaten that record, right? 😀 pic.twitter.com/qfQfyrHr4I
4A: Reidsville rolls to 24th overall state championship, defeats Brevard 50-20
The Football Capital of NC added another piece of state championship hardware to an already crowded trophy case, defeating Brevard 50-20 in the NCHSAA 4A title game at Lenoir-Rhyne’s Moretz Stadium on Saturday. Reidsville (13-2) claims 24 state championships dating back to 1930. The Rams have now collected 11 NCHSAA titles since 2000.
Saturday’s title tilt wasn’t competitive for long. Brevard found the end zone on its first offensive series, but Reidsville notched touchdowns on each of its first six offensive drives, all on explosive plays, to build a 43-7 lead by intermission.
Eventual game MVP Dionte Neal (49-yard TD reception, 56-yard TD run, 51-yard TD reception), Damarien Whitted (39-yard TD run) and Kendre Harrison (70-yard TD reception, 35-yard TD reception) led the first-half onslaught.
Neal, a UNC Greensboro basketball commit, finished with 158 receiving yards, 65 rushing yards, four tackles, a fumble recovery and an interception to break up a Brevard drive in the end zone. He also complete three 2-point PATs.
Harrison, the North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year and an Oregon signee, added three catches for 105 yards, six tackles, 2 TFLs and a sack to claim defensive player of the game. Quarterback Tyson Broadway went 10-of-11 passing for 283 yards and four TDs.
Brevard came into the game as one of only a handful of undefeated teams in the state. The Blue Devils finish 14-1.
7A: Grimsley fends off Clayton to become repeat champ
Grimsley won the final 4A championship of the old alignment last season, and the Whirlies claimed the first-ever NCHSAA 7A state title on Friday night at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill. On the same field where they won the championship in 2024, with the same quarterback (Tennessee signee Faizon Brandon), Grimsley defeated Clayton 24-14.
Brandon was named Game MVP after throwing a TD pass and rushing for another score in the first half. The Grimsley defense found the end zone after the break, when Maki Yon returned an interception 33 yards for a score. Grimsley won its 31st game in a row and claimed its third state title since the 2020 COVID season (with a runner-up appearance as well).
Clayton (12-3) stymied the Whirlies’ first few possessions and struck first on a 14-yard TD run from electric QB Aiden Smalls, an NC State signee. But three turnovers in the third quarter ultimately proved the Comets’ undoing as Grimsley asserted command. This was Clayton’s first state title game showing in nearly four decades.
6A: Watauga captures first football state title since 1978
Evan Burroughs plans to play baseball at Duke in 2026. His final high school football game will be one to remember among Watauga Pioneers faithful for many years to come.
Burroughs rushed for three touchdowns, caught a TD pass and returned an interception for a score, helping Watauga beat Middle Creek 47-25 in the NCHSAA 6A state championship game at UNC’s Kenan Stadium on Friday afternoon.
Watauga finished the season 15-0 and won its second-ever state championship in football, joining with a trophy earned in 1978. Middle Creek finished 11-3 after making its first-ever appearance in a football title game.
Burroughs caught 14 passes for 149 yards. He also picked off two passes, both in the first half as Watauga built a 33-10 lead. Watauga quarterback Cade Keller went 22-for-26 passing for 277 yards.
Middle Creek scored the first touchdown but it didn’t take long for Watauga to answer, with a Keller-to-Burroughs touchdown covering 68 yards. The Pioneers didn’t look back.
🏆 UNBELIEVABLE!
— WataugaOnline (@WataugaOnline) December 12, 2025
The number 47 is written all over this championship:
✦ 47 points scored in the championship game ✦ 47 years since the last state title (1978) ✦ 47 seconds left when they scored the game-winning TD and 2-point conversion last Saturday vs. Northern Guilford
You… pic.twitter.com/qfI0nO4LqX
8A: Hough claims first-ever NCHSAA 8A championship with shutout win
Hough pitched five shutouts this season on its way to the 8A state title game. It’s fitting that the Huskies earned yet another shutout Thursday night to claim the NCHSAA’s first-ever 8A championship. The Hough defense dominated from the outset en route to a 21-0 victory over Millbrook at UNC’s Kenan Stadium. The Huskies won the school’s first-ever state title in football and finished 14-0.
Millbrook (13-1) managed to stay within reach until the fourth quarter, trailing just 7-0. But the Huskies tacked on two late scores to win going away. Ethan Royal rushed for two touchdowns and threw for another to earn championship game MVP honors.
1A: Wilson Prep edges Robbinsville 9-8 for first-ever state title
Ethan Nelson kicked a 27-yard field goal with 20 seconds left, and Wilson Prep clipped small-schools power Robbinsville 9-8 to claim the 1A championship on Thursday at UNC’s Kenan Stadium. The Tigers claimed the school’s first-ever state championship in football in only its fourth year as a program.
“That was our first field goal all season. We haven’t even tried to line up for a field goal or an extra point all season,” Wilson Prep coach Phillip Dickens said during a TV interview right after the game.
Robbinsville had stacked up three plays inside its 10-yard-line as the clock wound down late in the fourth quarter. Wilson Prep was then flagged for delay of game twice, pushing the ball back to the 11. The Tigers brought on Nelson and tried the improbable field goal. Nelson hit it a wobbler but it went through, leaving Wilson Prep 1-for-1 in kicks on the season — and No. 1 in 1A football in 2025.
Wilson Prep reached the 1A East final a year ago, losing to Tarboro. Robbinsville is no stranger to success at the state level but was denied its 15th championship.
2025 1A Football State Championship MVP, presented by Morgan & Morgan
— NCHSAA (@NCHSAA) December 12, 2025
Travon Usher (#5) @wilsonprep1 #NCHSAAFB #NCHSAAGameLockedIn @forthepeople pic.twitter.com/Tj4JYDnDx4
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