How many first round games will be played in your state? In Alabama, we have 6 high school classifications with 8 regions in each class. The top 4 teams in each region make the playoffs (32 teams per class or 16 games per class). This means 96 1st round playoff games. Approximately 900 officials are needed to work the first round. I'm sure this pales to Texas and California to name a couple.

Kansas

There are 80 first round games in the seven classes. The lowest three classes only use 4-man while the larger four use 5-man. So there are 368 officials needed for the first round out of about 1000 officials in the state.

Tennessee
 

16 games in each of 5 classes, so 80 games in Division 1.
In Division 2 (private schools), 4 games.

84 games X (5-man crew + ECO + 3-man chain crew) =

756 officials needed for first round in Tennessee.

Texas - I believe there are 48 5A, 48 4A, 48 3A, 32 2A, 16 1A, 16 Private and 16 6-man games in round one. Could be 32 on 1A. Guess that's 224 games.

IOWA
 

5 Classes
4A Big Schools
3A
2A
1A
A Small Schools

16 teams qualify in each class thus 8 games times 5 classes means 40 crews.

We also have 8 man football, believe 8 teams qualify 4 more crews.

All crews are selected by the recommendations that have been sent in by the coaches.

In KY

4 classes, 16 games each, total 64

320 officials for first week

5 weeks, championship games to be played at Louisville's Papa John's Stadium

Level 1 officials, 197
Level 2, 213
Level 3, 493

total, 903


Level 1 is the beginning official, level 2 and 3 are only elgible for play offs.

8 Classes.
32 teams per Class.

128 Games on Round 1 Weekend.

Football is also the only sport where every team does not make the playoffs.

Peace

In Minnesota, every team does make the playoffs.

Each class has 8 sections with 8 teams. There are 32 games in each class in the first round and 6 classes for 192 games.

Most first round games are blow outs and even second round games can be just as bad.

Hey irefky, where are you going this week? I'll be in Frankfort.

Bellevue (3) at Raceland (2), which is near Ashland, who do you have?

[Edited by irefky on Nov 4th, 2005 at 09:58 AM]

I grew up in MN and I wish we did it that way in MO. One bad thing is my high school was in the same conference as Creiton Durham-Hall so we never advanced too far! :)

We have district play and the winner of the district advances, that's it. So you can have two really good teams in the same district but if one has a better record or margin of victory, they advance.

We have 6 classes including a separate 8 man class.

But don't you only have about 20 teams playing 8-man? I thought I had read that 8-man never caught on over there like it did in Kansas. We have two divisions of 8-man with over 90 teams total. In many places in the more rural areas, schools have combined to have enough players even for 8-man. In fact this past season was the last for one school which had won the state championship last year and the year before was runner-up.

Albany, NY area
 

Unfortunately, I can't give a definitive answer for the whole state, except that there are five classifications for football. In our area, eight teams make the playoffs from each class except the smallest, from which four make it. So our section has 18 first-round games, with four on-field officials plus a timer for each. There are, I believe, 11 sections in New York state; if they're all about the same size (dunno if that's true), then we'd have not quite 200 first-round playoff games.

<B> WI </B>

7 Divisions, 16 games each division first round.

The crew I sub for has round 3 and round 4 games this year. I expect they will all be there for those. Hoping to see them at State.

Since its Friday and I seem to be slacking off at work here are some numbers I gleaned from WI's Official's list.

2012 registered FB Officials.
553 L1s
138 L2s
143 L3s
289 L4s
192 L5s
30 L-Rs (I am suspecting this is retired???)
697 Masters.

24 and change- Montana
 

There are 4 classes AA,A,B and (8 man) C. Oh yeah, and 6-man too. AA and A send 8 teams and B and C send 16. Makes for 24 games plus whatever 6 man is. (My pool doesn't cover any 6 man schools so I am unsure). This week is the 2nd round for everyone except AA which starts tonight.