orngnblk Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 1 hour ago, The Drunken Sailor said: I'm pretty sure that it wasn't until the 90's that they went to 4 teams. As a matter of fact, I think it was when they went to the 5 classification system. In 87 us and Midway were the only District 3 teams to make playoffs and in 88 we were the #3 team and missed the playoffs.So you are correct 94 I think was when it changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtl112 Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) 93 was the year that they went to 5 classifications and in 2009 they went to 6. Edited June 16, 2020 by rtl112 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orngnblk Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 1 hour ago, rtl112 said: 93 was the year that they went to 5 classifications and in 2009 they went to 6. Yes,the year after Oneida won the state was 93 I was off a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtl112 Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 2 hours ago, orngnblk said: Yes,the year after Oneida won the state was 93 I was off a year. It was a little tougher for the small schools back in the day when there was only 3 classifications and only 2 schools out of each district qualifying for the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orngnblk Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) 20 minutes ago, rtl112 said: It was a little tougher for the small schools back in the day when there was only 3 classifications and only 2 schools out of each district qualifying for the playoffs. Alot tougher,East Tenn 1A teams all the way to Nashville were TOUGH!Copper Basin,SP of course,Gville,Franklin Road,Catholic,Midway,CF,Oneida,Ezell,Cloudland,BGA,GB.Wasnt no cakewalk to the 3rd and 4th round like now. Edited June 16, 2020 by orngnblk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGPURPLEMACHINE Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, orngnblk said: Alot tougher,East Tenn 1A teams all the way to Nashville were TOUGH!Copper Basin,SP of course,Gville,Franklin Road,Catholic,Midway,CF,Oneida,Ezell,Cloudland,BGA,GB.Wasnt no cakewalk to the 3rd and 4th round like now. Most of the time when there were 3 classes and the top 2 made it there were only 3 reds to the playoffs. Many teams played 13 games to win state unlike 15 today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtl112 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 5 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said: Most of the time when there were 3 classes and the top 2 made it there were only 3 reds to the playoffs. Many teams played 13 games to win state unlike 15 today. It was still 4 rounds plus the title game when there was the 3 classes. There was more districts per classification then which meant on 2 qualified but there has always been 32 total teams make the playoffs as the best I can recollect. They may have not been double the districts but I do know it was 32 teams per class back then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGPURPLEMACHINE Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 2 hours ago, rtl112 said: It was still 4 rounds plus the title game when there was the 3 classes. There was more districts per classification then which meant on 2 qualified but there has always been 32 total teams make the playoffs as the best I can recollect. They may have not been double the districts but I do know it was 32 teams per class back then. There was a time when only 8 teams made the playoffs in a class. In 1971 and 1977 Milan was 13-0 AA champs both years. It may have expanded later. But what I said was correct. There was a time when only 3 Rds made up the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orngnblk Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 3 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said: There was a time when only 8 teams made the playoffs in a class. In 1971 and 1977 Milan was 13-0 AA champs both years. It may have expanded later. But what I said was correct. There was a time when only 3 Rds made up the playoffs. Rt is around my age and I actually started playing in 8th grade in 1985 it was 15 total at that time so it changed sometime before then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtl112 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said: There was a time when only 8 teams made the playoffs in a class. In 1971 and 1977 Milan was 13-0 AA champs both years. It may have expanded later. But what I said was correct. There was a time when only 3 Rds made up the playoffs. Appreciate it, I wasn't for sure how far back it went but like orngnblk said I was referring to the eighties. It was the late eighties at that 88,89,90's when I played to be exact. I don't know about just 8 teams making it. Edited June 17, 2020 by rtl112 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzpatriot2 Posted June 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 I know for sure that by ‘86 it was the top four teams for each region. Our neibor to the south (Spring Hill) won the Clinic Bowl at Vanderbilt that year. I can look up who it was but they beat a 6-4 team in their first round. So, I know by then (‘86) it was the top four. I was just curious as to why those two Loretto teams didn’t make the playoffs. Thought maybe there might be a Loretto football historian. Butch Toner really built them up. They were like us before he got there. Losing to single A schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtl112 Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 11 hours ago, Pizzpatriot2 said: I know for sure that by ‘86 it was the top four teams for each region. Our neibor to the south (Spring Hill) won the Clinic Bowl at Vanderbilt that year. I can look up who it was but they beat a 6-4 team in their first round. So, I know by then (‘86) it was the top four. I was just curious as to why those two Loretto teams didn’t make the playoffs. Thought maybe there might be a Loretto football historian. Butch Toner really built them up. They were like us before he got there. Losing to single A schools. When I played the top 2 teams only made it and that was late eighties. That was in the district which now they call region if I'm not mistaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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