State Championship Blow-Outs

[barnowl]

Great 2010 Tennessee High School Football Season. Congratulations to all the Champions in all classes. The glaring fact is that in 6 out of 8 championship games the margin of victory was 21 points of more. This brings to light some flaws in the play-off system and the way the brackets are structured. Is it not the objective to have the best teams get to the finals? And if there is a superior district the teams in that district cancel each other out way to early. Any thoughts or ideas to correct this flaw?

[warhawks]

Great 2010 Tennessee High School Football Season. Congratulations to all the Champions in all classes. The glaring fact is that in 6 out of 8 championship games the margin of victory was 21 points of more. This brings to light some flaws in the play-off system and the way the brackets are structured. Is it not the objective to have the best teams get to the finals? And if there is a superior district the teams in that district cancel each other out way to early. Any thoughts or ideas to correct this flaw?

My thought is that TN.should have fewer classifications! I think the games would be much closer most of the time!

[barnowl]

How about spreading teams out and not putting two high ranked teams in the same areas. There may be some travel involved but is that not what makes the play-offs great. Let's look at other states (known for football) and see how they do it. EX; Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Florida, I believe they play pretty good ball in those states.

[Rhea Co.]

I like the way Georgia does their play-offs, and how they seed teams. Georgia has 5 classes with 8 regions (like we use to have) and then they take the top 4 teams out of each region. Then they place one team from each region into 1 of 4 brackets. So no team from the same region meets until the semi-finals at the earliest. Now grant it geographically and financially for some teams this would be tough to do, but it sure does make the play-offs fun to watch in Georgia.

 

I liked the old 5 class play-off system. It was so much easier to determine who got in and who didn't. Also I was thinking about this add an extra week keep the 6 classes do the play-offs the same way, but after the class 1A-6A are decided and even the DII champs could do this. Take the final teams from each class and then play 1A and 2A in a championship 3A and 4A in championship and then 5A and 6A in a championship.

 

So going off of this years final 6 it would look like this

 

A

South Pitt vs. Signal Mountain (which was a great game in the regular season.)

AA

Alcoa vs. Greeneville

AAA

Columbia vs. Maryville.

 

DII

Ensworth vs. Webb

Edited December 5, 2010 by Rhea Co.

[barnowl]

I like the way Georgia does their play-offs, and how they seed teams. Georgia has 5 classes with 8 regions (like we use to have) and then they take the top 4 teams out of each region. Then they place one team from each region into 1 of 4 brackets. So no team from the same region meets until the semi-finals at the earliest. Now grant it geographically and financially for some teams this would be tough to do, but it sure does make the play-offs fun to watch in Georgia.

 

I liked the old 5 class play-off system. It was so much easier to determine who got in and who didn't. Also I was thinking about this add an extra week keep the 6 classes do the play-offs the same way, but after the class 1A-6A are decided and even the DII champs could do this. Take the final teams from each class and then play 1A and 2A in a championship 3A and 4A in championship and then 5A and 6A in a championship.

 

 

 

Hey RC I like that idea just keep the privs to themselves and that would make it really interesting.

 

So going off of this years final 6 it would look like this

 

A

South Pitt vs. Signal Mountain (which was a great game in the regular season.)

AA

Alcoa vs. Greeneville

AAA

Columbia vs. Maryville.

 

DII

Ensworth vs. Webb

Edited December 5, 2010 by barnowl

[barnowl]

Hey RC I like that idea just keep the privs together and let the pubs play.

[RedSwarm10]

I like the way Georgia does their play-offs, and how they seed teams. Georgia has 5 classes with 8 regions (like we use to have) and then they take the top 4 teams out of each region. Then they place one team from each region into 1 of 4 brackets. So no team from the same region meets until the semi-finals at the earliest. Now grant it geographically and financially for some teams this would be tough to do, but it sure does make the play-offs fun to watch in Georgia.

 

I liked the old 5 class play-off system. It was so much easier to determine who got in and who didn't. Also I was thinking about this add an extra week keep the 6 classes do the play-offs the same way, but after the class 1A-6A are decided and even the DII champs could do this. Take the final teams from each class and then play 1A and 2A in a championship 3A and 4A in championship and then 5A and 6A in a championship.

 

So going off of this years final 6 it would look like this

 

A

South Pitt vs. Signal Mountain (which was a great game in the regular season.)

AA

Alcoa vs. Greeneville

AAA

Columbia vs. Maryville.

 

DII

Ensworth vs. Webb

 

You know that's really not a bad idea. A complex system decided by many variables, and still flawed to a degree, but back to having only 4 state champions would definitely put some extra value back on the gold balls like their used to be. Personally, I think those games you listed would be great games as well.

Edited December 6, 2010 by RedSwarm10

[trojanswars365]

Hey RC I like that idea just keep the privs together and let the pubs play.

 

 

That is a great idea! That way the privates can offer as many scholarships as they want and play each other!