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Actually, when they expanded the playoffs to five rounds before the 1985 season, that also included that district runner-ups as qualifiers for the playoffs along with the district champion. So 32 teams qualified from the 16 districts in each of the 3 classes. There were some really good playoff games in those days. Prior to that, the playoffs format from 1977-1984 consisted of 4 rounds with only the 16 district champions qualifying from each classification. From 1972-76 the playoffs began in the quarterfinals with 8 teams qualifying, and from 1969-71 only four teams qualified. I've not ever been able to uncover how teams qualified for the playoffs in those days. More recently, when TSSAA expanded to five classifications in 1993, they took the top three teams from each region (now there were 8 regions in the state and not 16 districts) with the regular season champion getting a first round bye. That lasted a year, before 4 teams qualified from each region and everyone playing a first round game. Three years after that, in 1997, they pulled privates out into their own classification, which was later split into two private classifications. The Clinic Bowl was an annual bowl game played in Nashville at Vanderbilt prior the playoff system. In 1982, the TSSAA decided to play all three state title games in the same day at Vandy and continued to call the games, "the Clinic Bowl". Prior to that, all state title games were played on campus sites (I believe the higher seed or ranking was chosen to host). The "Blue Cross Bowl" was the title sponsor when the championships moved to MTSU before the 2000 season. In my opinion, I wish TN would go back to playing a similar playoff system as when they had with 5 classifications for the publics and 2 classes for privates. Top 4 teams seeded from each region play qualify for the playoffs. In the public division, you would have 55-59 teams per class with 7-8 teams per region. This would solve a lot of scheduling and traveling headaches that we have now. Just wishful thinking though, as I know it will never happen because of gate money at the number of playoff games we have now. But we would see a lot more intriguing, competitive playoff matchups and more at stake during the regular season as well.

Game 1: 5 Clinton (58) vs. 8 Knox Central (55), Central elimated Game 2: 4 Campbell Co. (48) vs. 9 Gibbs (39), Gibbs eliminated Game 3: 6 Knox Halls vs. 7 Anderson Co., 2/15 7:30 pm Game 4: 4 Campbell Co. vs 5 Clinton, 2/16 7:30 pm Game 5: 3 Powell vs Game 3 Winner, 2/17 7:30 pm Game 6: 2 Karns vs Game 5 Winner, 2/18 4:30 pm Game 7: 1 Oak Ridge vs Game 4 Winner, 2/18 7:30 pm Game 8: Game 6 Loser vs Game 7 Loser, 3rd place consolation, 2/20 7:30 pm Game 9: Game 6 Winner vs Game 7 Winner, Championship, 2/21 7:30 pm @ Clinton

Updated results after Tuesday's first round games

Game 1: 5 West vs 8 Lenoir City, 2/14 6:00 pm Game 2: 6 Heritage vs 7 Farragut, 2/14 7:30 pm Game 3: 4 Wm Blount vs Game 1 Winner, 2/16 6:00 pm Game 4: 3 Hardin Valley vs Game 2 Winner, 2/16 7:30 pm Game 5: 1 Maryville vs Game 3 Winner, 2/17 7:30 pm Game 6: 2 Bearden vs Game 4 Winner, 2/17 9:00 pm Game 7: Loser Game 5 vs Loser Game 6, 3rd Place consolation, 2/21 6:00 pm Game 8: Winner Game 5 vs Winner Game 6, Championship, 2/21 7:30 pm All games played at Hardin Valley

Came across this in a google search, which is funny seeing how google wasn't around the last time someone posted in this thread. But Chris was recently inducted into the FHS Sports Hall of Fame. Chris was a great student-athlete and excelled in three sports in high school. He played baseball in college at Univ. of New Orleans.

Should be good. Looking back, it was late March last year when CJW was hired so this coach will have an extra 6 weeks to work compared to last year.

Yes, Randy was much younger than that. I'm not sure what years he was at East but I know he was playing at UT in 1987-88.

1969 Morristown East Cyclones coached by Rex Dockery 11-1 State Champs (first playoff state champion in state's highest class) W 7-6 Science Hill L 13-14 Dobyns-Bennett W 63-0 Cocke Co W 43-0 Sevier Co W 27-2 Greeneville W 40-0 Jefferson W 34-0 Tennessee W 31-8 Elizabethton W 39-8 Unicoi Co W 30-0 Knox Central (KY) Playoffs: Semis W 27-26 Franklin Co Championship W 15-12 Memphis Southside

1983 Germantown won it all, beat Gallatin 31-3 in the semis and then Jeff Co. 37-6 in the finals. And I agree, watching those 1994 & 2004 Riverdale teams were still two of the better ones I've seen. 94' team gave up 17 points total in the playoffs. '04 team had 8 shutouts on the season.

No I didn't go to Halls but had family play baseball there back in the day. I mostly remember the crowd at that semifinal game more than anything. That started the run for the old region 3-AAAA playing in 12 of 13 blue cross bowls from 1996-2008.

Have they released a schedule for 2017 yet?

I get all my info from here usually. It's like the wikipedia of TN HS football. I can remember that semifinal game with AC in '96. First game was of the season was close and most of Knoxville was in the stadium that night for lying Larry's return to Halls for the 10th year anniversary of his champion red devils.

W 52-12 Gibbs W 32-7 Maryville W 38-0 Knox West W 26-6 Cocke Co. W 36-0 Carter W 13-7 Anderson Co. W 20-0 Powell W 42-0 Morristown West W 34-8 Knox Central W 45-17 Cumberland Co. Playoffs W 16-0 Cherokee W 30-0 Lavergne W 31-8 Baylor W 21-7 Anderson Co. L 14-18 Pearl-Cohn

2004 Alcoa Tornadoes coached by John Reid W 49-12 South Doyle L 18-31 Maryville W 63-7 Oliver Springs W 20-7 William Blount W 44-12 Sweetwater W 40-6 Heritage W 35-0 Rockwood W 54-0 Harriman W 35-7 Webb W 56-0 Wartburg Playoffs W 44-13 Hampton W 35-14 Sweetwater W 46-3 Rockwood W 35-14 David Lipscomb W 52-41 Huntingdon (14-1) AA State Champs 1st of seven straight state titles in class AA/AAA

Former coach is giving his away

I don't think he is referring to the teams in your district that you have no say in the matter. I think he means the non-region games with Jeff Co. (worst team in your old region), Lenoir City (5A, worst team in their old 5A region), Anderson Co. (4A, won 3 games last year), and Stone Memorial (4A, undefeated yet lost in first round of playoffs last year).

1985 Jefferson County Patriots coached by Craig Kisabeth W 8-7 Oak Ridge W 8-0 Chattanooga City W 42-12 Kirkman W 40-0 David Crockett W 50-0 Morristown East W 20-7 Rhea County W 44-7 Greeneville W 27-0 Morristown West W 27-0 Cherokee W 18-0 Cocke County Playoffs W 28-0 Elizabethton W 21-14 Halls W 9-7 Cleveland L 6-7 Rhea County (13-1) AAA Semi-finalists

1983 Jefferson County Patriots coached by Craig Kisabeth W 55-0 Bearden W 17-6 Chattanooga City W 17-14 Cookeville W 32-0 David Crockett W 20-7 Greeneville W 26-0 Knox Central W 31-13 Cherokee W 24-7 Morristown West W 35-26 Morristown East W 17-3 Cocke County Playoffs W 21-14 Dobyns-Bennett W 28-14 Farragut W 17-7 McCallie L 6-37 Germantown (13-1) AAA State Runners-Up

What BHS do you speak of?

1981 Farragut Admirals 12-1 coached by Dan Bland W 28-7 Gallatin W 27-7 Halls W 28-0 Bearden W 34-0 Doyle W 14-6 Montgomery Bell W 49-14 William Blount W 24-0 Karns W 35-7 Oak Ridge W 34-0 Howard W 27-0 Carter Playoffs W 28-14 Clinton W 41-0 Sullivan South L 7-16 Rhea County

Look for Nolensville to emerge as a state contender in the next couple of years in 4A. Will Hester and staff left to open up the new program after leading Ravenwood to back-to-back 6A state title game appearances. The school is large enough to grow into another 6A school in Williamson County, but they will be competing in 4A until 2021.

Cleveland is the best job of the 3 mentioned. City school in a growing community, lot of support and good pay, competitive schedule, head coach there now runs the weight program and has total control over the youth feeder system.

Assuming there are spots open, who, if any, will Lamar bring with him?

Catholic's Luke Smith is one of the best, if not the best, scorers in all of Knoxville this year

Last week before Christmas break and tournaments... Monday - Scott @ Anderson Co. Wednesday - Heritage in the Heritage Christmas Tournament Hardin Valley in the Smokey Mtn Classic Thursday - West @ Austin-East Friday - Fulton @ West I'm sure there are others, just pulling from the T scoreboard. Let us know when your team plays!