Your state's high school football playoff system

Oregon HS football team kept out of state playoffs by 'computing error'

Now look who is costing kids scholarships.

 

Was in western kansas.
Snap came from around the 25
We all do narrows out here.
Had to laugh at your knickers suggestion
On 8-man 80 yard fields, I'm always 20 back. 11-man...25.
And was Friday night
Lol

 

I’ll throw in Arkansas, a smaller state with a buttload of state championships. State goes 7A to 2A based on enrollment 9-11 averaged over a 3-year period. 7A and 6A have 16 teams each split into two conferences (so they rival parts of Texas for travel). 5A is four conferences of 8 teams each, the only class with an ideal setup. The remainder are 48 or so teams in six-team conferences per class, so fifth-place teams make the playoffs (a few actually do win in the first round, like Salem a year ago) and two lucky conference champs get byes.

You can add eight-man to the mix this year, a move I like. State started a pilot program this year with seven teams and it seemed a success.

 

HS playoff football sucks unless at least one round is played in driving snowstorms.

 

Coldest I have ever been in my life was in 2016 State Championship game. Rained, sleeted, snowed for most of the week before the game. Night before, it was a driving ice storm.
Entire field was played in a field of what was basically Sonic ice.
During the game, it would rain more
......problem is when it would stop raining, the wind would kick up to about 20 and just freeze you even more.
Guys at the stadium, we will never forget......took our gear at halftime and put all of it in his clothes dryer for 10 minutes.

 

In my day in HS (the early-mid 70s), playoffs were still in their early infancy (4 classes, 4 teams per class), so the regular season didn't end until the second Friday in November, and it snowed earlier in those days, so the last 2 games were often played in sleet or snow.
When i was a sophomore on JV, our final game was played in 2-4 inches on the field pregame, and probably another 4 fell during the game.

The home school used a snowblower to mark out the goal lines and the 10 yard lines, and that was it.

It was like playing on a field of cotton balls. What a blast.

 

I'll put this here because there is more serious stuff to talk about on the fire thread than football ... but the California playoffs are going to be a mess. At least two sections in the Bay Area have postponed first/second round games a week because the smoke is so bad from the Chico fire. State playoffs might get bumped at least a week as section champions won't be decided. State org will meet tomorrow to sort it out. I can't imagine what is going on in the Southern Section right now.

 

My coldest game was in Pahokee, Fla., of all places, in December of '88. In the 40s -- cold for South Florida – with a fierce wind coming off Lake Okeechobee. Pahokee was a passing team and lost because it couldn't throw into the wind in the fourth quarter. I didn't think I'd ever warm up.

 

Are they still doing high seed gets a home game in the first round then it's coin flips/if you were on the road in the previous round you get a home game?

I'm a little surprised they are still on track.

 

The refs wear wide stripes out here in the SEK. Get with the times.

Kansas used to have a similar thing except that instead of a coin toss, the final tie breaker was whichever school was farther east or west, direction depending on round (east second round, west third round, swap the next year). People believed that they measured distances by the school's flagpole, but I was never able to confirm what they used.