Playoff Procedure

[Green]

This year our section (125 high schools) has made a change in the playoff procedure.

Some reasons for the change, last year the Division Four Champion, won 56 to 6 who was forced to play in the small school division. That same team will be playing in the Open Division this year.

The four divisions, 8 teams in each division:
Open
Large
Medium
Small

Here’s the section’s by-law covering the procedure, to difficult to copy it.
Section 5. At-Large and seeding procedures - Point System

http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/bylaw...tion%208.RULES

How are playoffs handled in your area?

[mcrowder]

Class A, 2A, and 3A play normal playoffs - the top 2 teams in each division make the playoffs, with 2nds squaring off against 1sts in the first round.

Class 4A and 5A send their top 3 teams to the playoffs, with the largest school that made the playoffs in each division going to the "Big-School" bracket, and the 2 smaller teams going to the "Smaller-School" bracket. These brackets do not meet in the playoffs, so 4A and 5A each have 2 champions.

[jstark23]

Actually in Texas 2A and 3A are seperated Division 1 and 2 also 1A isn't because its already divided 6-man 11-Man

[The Roamin' Umpire]

New York State, Section 2 (Greater Capital Region):

Five classifications: AA, A, B, C, D (who needs five As, really?) Roughly, AA covers schools with 1000+ enrollment, A is 600-1000, B is 400-600, C is 275-400, and D is below 275. Actually, come to think of it, I'm guessing that AA here is probably about the same numbers of students (or at least the same caliber of football) as AA in other states.

AA has 14 teams, split in three divisions. Eight teams make the sectional playoffs.

A has 10 teams, split in two divisions. Eight teams make the sectional playoffs.

B has 12 teams, split in two divisions. Four teams make the sectional playoffs. (This makes no sense to me, given that...)

C has 15 teams, split in three divisions. Eight teams make the sectional playoffs.

D has 7 teams, four of which make the sectional playoffs.

Division winners automatically get playoff spots - other spots and seeding are decided by a committee the day after the last regular season game.

Sectional winners have three rounds of state-level playoffs to decide the state champion in each classification. Not sure how that's sufficient, since there are 11 sections in the state. But I think Long Island (2 sections) doesn't participate in the state playoffs. Still leaves nine, though, and I don't know how they work that out.

[bigwes68]

Division 1 (Public schools and private schools that do not offer financial aid)

5 classifications, 1A through 5A. 8 regions in each classification, top 4 teams from each region go, so 32 teams in each classification (which amounts to more than half of all teams and also means that some 2-8 or 1-9 teams make it, T$$AA makes more money, ridiculous). 5 rounds, championship games Dec. 3-4 at Middle Tenn. St. in Murfreesboro.

Division 2 (Private schools that offer financial aid)

3 classifications:
A has 4 teams (out of 9 total), AA has 8 teams (out of 11 total), AAA has 6 teams (out of 7 total). Complete joke. Championships are Tues., Nov. 23 at Vanderbilt (moved to Tuesday because of Tennessee-Vanderbilt game the previous Saturday).

[Matt-MI]

256 teams make our post season.

6 wins in 9 games(or 5 of 8)automatically qualifys a team.
Remainder of field is filled using our old playoff point which was a little bit complicated.

The field is then divided total enrollment into 8 equal divisions of 32 teams.

The eight championship games are played at the Silverdome on Thansgiving weekend(Fri & Sat).