HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFF PICTURE
By mark rogers
November 3, 2008
This is always the craziest week of the high school football season. Not so much for who's going to win each district because the teams fighting for the district crown are just fighting for bragging rights. They're always already going to the playoffs.
But THAT'S where it gets interesting...when you have three teams fighting for one spot. Or four teams fighting for two.
Here's how each district breaks down:
District 3-5A:
Abilene High is your district champ and they'll be joined by Richland and North Crowley in the post-season. With one spot open, Burleson, Weatherford and Haltom City will battle it out...only not against each other. Burleson hosts Weatherford and Haltom City goes to Richland. If one team wins and the other two lose, the winning team goes. If Burleson and Haltom City win, Burleson would go by virtue of a one point win over Haltom City on October 3.
Now let's make it even more confusing...if Weatherford beats Burleson and Haltom City loses, we'd have three teams tied at 2-4 and only one team goes. Then we'd have a tie breaker based on what the district deemed was the tie-breaker at the beginning of the season. I'll let the ARN figure all those fun scenarios out for us...that goes for the rest of the three-team ties for the remainder of this post.
District 4-4A:
Frenship and Cooper have clinched. Lake View, Big Spring and Hereford could all possibly end up 2-3 in league play with two spots left.
It would be real easy if Big Spring wins, then Big Spring and Lake View would go since four teams go and Hereford and Plainview would have at least four losses eliminating them from the race. But if Lake View loses and Hereford beats Big Spring, they'd all be 2-3. Three teams...two spots...let the fun begin.
There may be other scenarios in that district...I'm just not smart enough to figure them out.
District 2-3A:
Another fun one. Sweetwater and Wylie have clinched.
If Brownwood beats Snyder and Graham beats Breckenridge, Brownwood, Snyder and Graham would be 2-3. Three teams...two spots.
However, if Snyder wins, they're in...period. If Snyder loses and Breckenridge beats Graham, then Brownwood would go since they'd have the tie-breaker over Snyder.
But we still have that three team tie scenario.
District 6-2A:
Easy. Done. Clyde, Cisco and Merkel clinched last week.
District 7-2A:
Ballinger and Jim Ned have clinched. If Colorado City beats Wall, the Wolves go and everyone else stays home.
If Wall beats C-City and Grape Creek loses, then Wall would go.
If Wall beats C-City and Grape Creek wins, you'd have C-City, Grape Creek and Wall all tied at 2-3 with only one spot remaining...
District 8-2A:
Brady and Bangs (who play this week) have already clinched.
If Coleman beats San Saba and Early loses to Dublin, Coleman would go with a 3-3 record (tied with Comanche) since they beat Comanche on September 26.
But in that scenario, if Early beats Dublin (which is likely), then Coleman, Comanche and Early would all have identical 3-3 records. Three teams...one spot.
But if San Saba beats Coleman and Dublin beats Eastland, which is highly unlikely, Comanche would.
District 11-A:
Roscoe has clinched.
This is an interesting situation. If Stamford beats Rotan and Roscoe wins, then those three would go.
How about this: Roscoe loses to Hamlin, Stamford beats Rotan...you'd have a three-way tie at 3-2 with Rotan, Stamford and Hamlin. Two of those teams would get to go.
If Rotan, Haskell and Roscoe win, then Stamford, Hamlin and Haskell would have identical 2-3 records. And only one team would join Roscoe and Rotan in the playoffs.
If Hamlin beats Roscoe and Stamford wins and Haskell loses to Roby, Stamford would go since they beat Hamlin. Confused yet?
District 12-A:
Albany and Bronte have clinched.
If Winters wins, they're in.
If Winters loses to Miles and Baird beats Cross Plains, you'd have three teams vying for that final spot. If Miles wins and Baird loses, Miles would go.
District 15-A:
Done. DeLeon, Perrin-Whitt and Gorman have clinched. Tolar, Ranger and Santo are out.
District 9-A:
Done. Archer City, Seymour and Windthorst have clinched. Munday, Petrolia and Electra are out.
Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this...and for six man scenarios, check out www.sixmanfootball.com
Should be a great night of high school football this week...I'm confused already.
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