How is your state broken up Division/Class etc.

1A,2A,3A,4AII,4AI,5AII,5AI

They are realigning the state to get teams of like size in the same conference

In the regular season NC has 1A-4A, but for the playoffs they subdivide each division so you have 8 state champs

Minnesota uses tgop three grades for enrollment, but will be switching to top four next year. Current three grade breakdown is as follows:
5A - 1100 and above (biggest school is about 2700)
4A - 550 -1099
(Both 5A and 4A have about 60 schools)
9 Man - under 140 (A number of schools opt up to play 11 man)
1A, 2A, 3A - equally divide the number of schools remaining (I believe each class is around 70 schools)
Each class is divided into 8 Sections
All 4A and 5A schools play in sections, with some sections having byes built in.
64 schools in other classes make section playoffs.
8 Regular Season games, 2 or 3 section games, 3 state tournament games - Finalists play 13 or 14 games.

PA

4 Classes- AAAA, AAA, AA, A by male enrollment 9-11 every two years.

There are 12 Districts now I believe. Each District has playoffs(which are all done diffrently). District winners move to inner-district. Sate is divided into east/west for inner-districts with the east west winners meeting in the state championship

Alabama has 6 classes. Each Team is in an 8-team region in their classification. Each Team will play 7 region games and 3 non-region games each year. In the non-region games your team can play any school in the state regardless of the classification.

Arkansas

7A- Top 16 "Super Schools"

6A- Next 16 Schools by size

5A- Next 32 Schools by size

4A- Next 48

3A- Next 61 (some of which don't play football)

2A- Next 60 (some of which don't play football)


1A schools do not play football, some of the privates and a few of the publics don't play football in the bottom two classes.

Schools use enrollment 10-12 to determine school size. Private schools enrollment is multiplied by 1.75 to determine competative enrollment.

State championships in 2A-7A.

10 game schedule, first 3 are non-conference and have no bearing on the placement of the teams at any other point in the season (so people play some pretty crazy game, since they don't get docked for it).

Playoff format looks like this... www.ahsaa.org/2006%20FB%20Playoff%20Guide.pdf

In Oklahoma 6A-3A have 32 teams total, 16 of which make the playoffs.
2A has 64 teams total, 32 of which make the playoffs.
A fluctuates on how many teams it has ( somewhere between 64 and 70), 32 make the playoffs.

We also have two 8-man classes, 32 in each, 16 make the playoffs.

Thanks for clearing that up. I would think they would want to figure out a way to re-classify some of those divisions. 16 teams playing for a state championship, while winning one is great, just doesn't seem to be a great reflection on the state association.

Wisconsin is broken down into 7 divisions and 32 teams making up each division with:
Division 1 = Largest school
Div 2
Div3
Div 4
Div 5
Div 6
Div 7 = smallest school

3 weekend in December is state championship game.

<sup>Not to ruffle any feathers on here but......

If I am reading this correct and this is no ones fault on here but some sates crown a state champion from a pool of 16 or 32 schools, is that how many make the playoffs or is that how many are in the classification in the whole state? I am a bit confused by that.</sup>

When I was in Wyoming we had:
4A 10 schools
3A 10 schools
2A 12 Schools
1A (big class) 16
8 teams made the playoffs per class
9 man had 8 schools (4 in playoffs). 9-man was discontinued many years ago.

Years ago (in Wyo.) we had a 3 way tie for the last 2 playoff spots in our division (or 3 way tie for last). We all met in a central location. We were odd man out on the flip... so team A played team B for one half. Team A won... they got the #3 seed. 2nd half, we played Team B, won and were #4 seed. This was on a Tuesday. Saturday we traveled across the state (about 370 miles) to play the #1 from the East. We lost a nailbiter...46-6.

South Dakota AA (largest) has 17 in the class, 16 make the playoffs.

Here in Nebraska we have:
Class A (largest) top 28 enrollment
Class B next 32
Class C remaining 11 man split in to 2 divisions (about 130 schools, 65 per class: C1 and C2)
Class D 8 man schools split in to 2 divisions... about 140 schools/ 70 per class- D1 and D2
There are also 11 schools that play 6 man, which is not sanctioned, but they do run their own playoff system.

The 6 sanctioned classes play the Championship at the U of Nebraska.

We play playoff games every 5 days (between first round and 2nd we get 6 days):
Thursday- Wednesday, Monday- Saturday- Thurs./Fri or Sat

Class A and B take 16 to the playoffs. Classes C and D take 32 (took 16 until 2002). Our playoff run in the smaller classes meant a bit more when 16/60-70 made it. However, they could take 68 next year and we might be watching from the outside.

In the future they plan on expanding Class A to 32, Class B to 40. Class D may be 1 division at that point (probably 120+ schools).

Also: we reclassify every two years (even years). Seems we get a lot more school consolidations in the odd years (double enrollment, keep the same class, schedule and same district).

wisconsin takes the 32 largest schools which qualify for the playoffs and they are d 1. they do the same with the next divison.

some schools play in a d1 population confrence but when playoffs come, they drop down to d2 because of the number of teams which qualify.

the city of milwaukee is what can throw off the playoffs.

wiscosin has a insane playoff structure. you play your final game on thurdays night, then the following tuesay you play your first playoff game and then you play agian the next saturday. you play about every 5 days in wisconsin.

I think the PA championships were the weekend of Dec 15 this year. One team if I am correct played 16 games this year. Games are played at Hershey PA which is a neat tradition since when you win to make it to the state game the fans usually throw hershey kisses all over the field. As the head coach when we made the title games in 99-00 use to say (and he is a largeman) "I wanna live the fat mans dream and have all that chocolate raining down on me at the end of the game!"

So let me also ask this question.....In which states, number wise, is it hardest to win a state championship? For ex. in PA there are 570+ teams trying to win 4 titles. Each of the 4 classes has about 140 schools give or take. Also would you rather have more or less titles in your state?