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From today's BOC minutes on the TSSAA website -

 

The addition of three Class 2A schools for the 2007-2008 school year creates a very unique situation for TSSAA football alignments for the last two years of the current classification cycle, which ends at the conclusion of the 2008-2009 school year.

 

This is the result of Jackson Christian, which moves up from 1A due to a 20% enrollment change and the creation of two Class 2A schools because of the new East Hickman High School. This new school will be in 2A in football and, also, causes Hickman County High School to drop from 4A to 2A.

 

The problem that is created is that these three new schools are geographically situated in the three largest 2A regions in the state. Region 5 (8 teams), Region 6 (9 teams), and Region 7 (8 teams) are the geographic regions for the placement of these schools. If the schools are placed geographically in the regions, there will be a result of Region 5 having nine teams, Region 6 having 10, and Region 7 having 9.

 

As a result, the Board of Control, at its November 13 meeting, has created nine regions for Class 2A for the last two years of this classification period. There are no changes in Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8. The 28 schools that would be in Regions 5, 6, and 7 have now been placed in four regions. The new region alignments are as follows:

 

Region 1: Chuckey-Doak, Cumberland Gap, Gatlinburg-Pittman, Happy Valley, North Greene, South Greene, West Greene

 

Region 2: Alcoa, CAK, Loudon, Oliver Springs, Rockwood, Sweetwater, Wartburg Central

 

Region 3: Bledsoe County, Boyd-Buchanan, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tyner

 

Region 4: Cannon County, Jackson County, Smith County, Upperman, Westmoreland, York Institute

 

Region 5: CPA, DCA, East Robertson, Ezell-Harding, Franklin Road Academy, Goodpasture

 

Region 6: East Hickman, Fairview, Harpeth, Hickman County, Lewis County, Loretto, Richland

 

Region 7: Adamsville, Camden, Houston County, Huntingdon, Riverside, Stewart County, Waverly

 

Region 8: Dresden, Gibson County, Humboldt, JCS, Milan, Peabody, USJ, Westview

 

Region 9: Booker T. Washington, George Carver, Memphis South Side, Oakhaven, Treadwell, Westside, Westwood

 

Football Playoffs

 

The proposal for selection of the 32 teams qualifying for the football playoffs and the setting of the bracket will deviate from standard procedures that are currently in use, but the selection and seeding of teams will continue to follow the underlying selection philosophy described in the TSSAA football regulations.

 

The following will show (1) selection of the teams for the playoffs, (2) placement of the teams in the brackets, and (3) seeding the teams in the brackets.

 

(1) Selection of teams for the playoffs: Obviously, nine regions destroy the symmetry as there is no basic logic for placing nine regions in a 32-team bracket. The plan is to select the top three teams from each region, based on current playoff procedures set forth in the football regulations. This will set 27 of the 32 teams in the playoff series. The remaining five slots will be filled by a wild card selection. These five teams will be selected by the guidelines that are in the football regulations.

 

The process will be to take all the 2A schools that did not qualify for the playoffs as one of the top three teams from their region, and sort them by overall won-loss records. The top five teams in overall won-loss records will make the playoffs as wild cards. In the event of a tie in overall records for the 32nd position, then factors such as head-to-head (if applicable), opponents with victories over teams winning 50% of their games or more, etc., would determine these five playoff teams.

 

(2) Placement of teams in the brackets: Here we will deviate from the traditional bracket. Once the 32 teams have been selected for the playoffs the schools will be grouped into four 8-team quadrants. This grouping will be done without regard to region alignments. The grouping will take into account factors such as even distribution of the #3's and wild cards in the four quadrants, geography, etc.

 

(3) Seeding the teams in the brackets: Once the four quad brackets are created, the eight teams within each bracket will be seeded from 1 - 8. All #1 region finishers in the bracket will be listed in the bracket using standard TSSAA football regulations, i.e., head-to-head (if applicable), overall records, etc. Once the #1 seeds are placed in the bracket, the same procedures will be used for the #2 teams, then the #3 teams, and then the wild card teams. You will also place the teams so that #1's and #2's from the same region would not meet until the quarterfinal round of the playoffs. Once the teams are seeded in the bracket, the home team will always be the higher seeded team.

 

Major Differences in the Playoff Bracket

 

Schools will not know until the bracket is released where they will fall or what line they will be placed on. It is possible that a team could play a team from their region in the first round (example: #1 is in first seeded position and #4 is a wild card team placed in the #8 seeded position). Teams in the same region may not be in the same quadrant, depending on wild cards and geographic location of all 32 schools. Also, teams in the same region (probably Region 5) could go to the opposite bracket (upper and lower), depending on wild cards and geographic location of all 32 schools.

 

Final details of the playoff brackets in Class 2A will be determined by the Board of Control at a later Board of Control meeting prior to the beginning of the 2007 season.

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"The process will be to take all the 2A schools that did not qualify for the playoffs as one of the top three teams from their region, and sort them by overall won-loss records. The top five teams in overall won-loss records will make the playoffs as wild cards."

 

Watch for teams to load up on easy non-region games.

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"The process will be to take all the 2A schools that did not qualify for the playoffs as one of the top three teams from their region, and sort them by overall won-loss records. The top five teams in overall won-loss records will make the playoffs as wild cards."

 

Watch for teams to load up on easy non-region games.

Seems like they could qualify this by win-loss records with 2A teams.

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Thats not a good idea. Its not fair that in AA, you would have to finish in the top 3 in your region, when in every other classifacation, you just have to make the top 4... As long as there are no more than 11 teams in a region, keep it the same... The T$$AA didn't do this a few years ago when one of the 1A regions (I think it was 5 or 6) had like 13 teams. They figured out some hair-brained idea to make it work... I don't remember what it was though... Had like A and B divisions... Maybe someone remembers how that worked??? :lol:

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Three teams moving up to 3A in the Chattanooga area contributed to this, there were complaints about 3-2A just having five teams when it would have had eight.

 

Seems like they could qualify this by win-loss records with 2A teams.

 

 

How many want to travel to another area of the state for a non-region game, though?

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Thats not a good idea. Its not fair that in AA, you would have to finish in the top 3 in your region, when in every other classifacation, you just have to make the top 4... As long as there are no more than 11 teams in a region, keep it the same... The T$$AA didn't do this a few years ago when one of the 1A regions (I think it was 5 or 6) had like 13 teams. They figured out some hair-brained idea to make it work... I don't remember what it was though... Had like A and B divisions... Maybe someone remembers who that worked??? :lol:

A few years ago 5A had two divisions with the top four teams overall advancing to the playoffs.

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I am personally a fan of the 10 team regions. I remember when Region 4-3A had a 10 team region a couple of years ago and it looked like this:

 

Portland

Trousdale

York

Macon County

Livingston Academy

Smith County

DeKalb County

Upperman

Cannon County

Jackson County

 

Actually, Trousdale, Smith County, Upperman, Jackson County, York, Cannon County all chose to play up in 3A during those four years.

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