They made playoffs in 5a from 2009 to 2014.
up to the 3rd round a couple times and out of round 1 a couple of times. By no means were they dominate or going to win a state title but to say they had little success isnt accurate.
they were competitive in 5a.
Imagine if they had chose to play up.
Region: Alcoa, Fulton, Gibbs, Seymour, AC, South Doyle, Carter, Scott High
Playoffs you play Elizabethton and Greeneville.
that's much better competition for Alcoa. I still see Alcoa winning those games.
The Thursday night rivalry games can push 3 hrs sometimes. Because of the 2 minute timeouts and depending on how flag happy the refs can be. Overall still much shorter than the average college football game.
Alabama has instant replay, but you can only challenge plays like did he cross the goal line, did the player step out of bounds etc... you can't challenge penalties except penalties involving excess players, forward pass, and ejection type penalties.
On the 5a-6a board someone ran the numbers. Basically you are splitting around 49 to 50 each classification. Taking out the ones that don't play football or the privates. You would have 5a cut off being right at AC with 1114. So, Portland, Springfield, and AC would all be making the jump to 5a.
I think D-B looks great this year from what I've seen. I think that it is very probably that they could potentially end up 9-1 going into the playoffs. I just don't feel like they can beat Alcoa.
AC has nothing to be ashamed off. Powell has some great WR and a great QB.
ACs OL was stout and Powell was not able to run at all on the interior of ACs defense.