National High School Football Playoff System

[FiddySicks]

Well, that is untill they play South Tahoe..............

well if thats the case they would be playing against a NEVADA school now, right?

Thats because California cant handle us!!!!

[maxweb81]

I honestly don't know how many teams their would be

umm....i think there would be....50???

I meant if you took every state champ in each class and made a bracket over those amount of teams. By the way if you wanted to know their are 332 state or region champions in the United States(11 man public and Private school). Even though this wouldn't be possible, if you wanted to play every state or region champ you would have to let the region champs play for a spot and with that the number of teams would be 276. Then a 256 team bracket would be the closet you would get to a even bracket. Overall it would be a complex playoff attempt, but it's a cool what if.

BTW- Hoosick Falls will beat Canajoharie and the winner of Voohersville/Chatam to be NYS Class C Section 2 Champs! Then States baby! Go Panthers!

[whitedawg22]

Then a 256 team bracket would be the closet you would get to a even bracket. Overall it would be a complex playoff attempt, but it's a cool what if.

And the understatement of the year award goes to...

[mfoster]

First, most states have multiple champions based on size classification. But it's not the same in every state. For example, Texas has six classes, I believe, while Pennsylvania has four. Also, the size divisions aren't the same because population density varies. What might be a very large school in Montana could rank as a small school in California.

Texas has five, plus eight man and six man and all sorts of other silly small town stuff where games get ended at halftime due to mercy rules. But get this, when the playoffs come they split 5A into two divisions. Thus, Southlake Carroll (last year's mythical national HS champs and HS for Mizzou QB Chase Daniels) and Euless Trinity (currently ranked 36th nationally, I believe), despite being not ten miles apart and in 5A, were both state champs. Why they don't play that extra game is something only the UIL could come up with. I'd love to see the Dragons play the (Haka dancing Tongan) Trojans, but nope.

Another issue is private vs. public. In Texas only a handful of private schools play in the public school league.

There's all sorts of issues that have been discussed in whole or in part... That one state's 4A could be another's 6A is one, then you have the obvious issue of general talent disparity between the states. I'd be happy with taking the top 16 teams from CA, TX, FL, OH, and maybe some wildcard states, and letting them fight it out, but then we'd be approaching something like the BCS with automatic bids.

Just a few of my thoughts... I'd love to see it, too... but...

Marc

[yh]

It's clearly an impossible task, but it is cool when programs from differing states do manage to hook up for games.

Since Missouri went to a system whereby only your school's record in intradistrict games (of which there are three) counts toward playoff qualification, it's resulted in schools having the flexibility to play teams from other states and other classes within their own state without postseason ramifications. My alma mater (Jefferson City High School, formerly a mythical national champ in the 60's and 70's) has played teams from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado and Kentucky.