Your state's high school football playoff system

You could easily extend the range of the San Diego Section to El Centro and merge LA and Orange County schools into a conference, no?
Needles also plays in the Nevada association, but wonder why they don't join Arizona with rivals like Kingman and Lake Havasu City nearby. When I worked in Havasu, they were put in a conference with schools from the Phienix area.

 

I think cutting down from 8 divisions to 7 or 6 would help. Bigger sections should make is harder to qualify and therefore less likely a 0-7 or 1-6 gets in.

 

My buddy was a grad asst at Le Verne about 15-20 years ago. One season they had to play at St John's (Minn) in the playoffs.
Even if SJ wasn't a great team with a legendary coach, he said he knew they were done when they got off the plane and kids
started talking about how cold it was.

 

When they started this format six years ago, there were just six divisions. They expanded to eight two or three years ago. I'd like if they went back to six, but I remember some 2-5 teams qualifying back then.

 

RHODE ISLAND (this is gonna make y'all laugh).
First thing we do is we split our 44 teams up in four different divisions based on success, not school size. They realign every two years.
In Division I, there are 14 teams. This year, because the state's top two private schools have played each other for the state title every year for the last six and a public school hasn't won since 2009, the RIIL split D-I into two seven team divisions and said the first-place finish in each would automatically go to the state final and the next four teams in each division would play for the Division I title. On paper, it was brilliant until this one big public school that's been rebuilding for the last six years, turned themselves into the second best team in the state. Because they lost to the best private school (three point game) in the regular season, they won't get to play for a state title. Instead, they get to the play for the D-I title.
Division II is a 14-team, two division set up. Top four from each make the playoffs.
Division III and Division IV are seven team divisions where the top four make the playoffs.
Yes, we have 44 teams and now have FIVE Super Bowls.

 

Welll, now I know to never be impressed if a recruit to my favorite program includes "led his Rhode Island high school to a Super Bowl win" in his bio.

 

Kwity Paye at Michigan is pretty impressive

 

If it’s the actual state championship, yes.
If it’s one of the others, no.
We’ve got an o-lineman going to Georgia and it’s comical watching him play here. I tracked runs to his side during a game and his team averaged like 15 a pop. Every play is pure destruction.
It gets even more fun at the lower levels when you get a kid with decent talent. We had a kid playing in the worst division that went D3 college. His senior year here’s he ran for like 2900 yards.

 

One thing the CIF has done right in the last few years is seeding some Central Section teams in the NorCal bracket in football, volleyball and both basketballs. Traditionally, they'd been in the SoCal bracket and were, more often than not, cannon fodder for schools south of the Grapevine in the first round. Also eases travel. And most of the San Joaquin Valley, geographically (and in the eyes of the juco association) lies with NorCal.

 

I may be outing myself here, and I dont care.....I was backjudge in this game last night. You gotta see this catch.