[barb]

Barb, I think the other poster left out a little bit of KY's high school playoff system. IMHO, our playoff system may be the easiest ive ever seen to follow.

Ky has 6 classes. Each class has the same playoff system. In KY, there is not seperate class for private schools. They play in the class that there enrollment numbers put them in. Also, there is only like 8 or 9 private schools in KY that are actually good football teams. But, back to the playoffs, each class has four regions and 8 districts.

Also, there are 5 rounds in KYs high school playoffs. Round 1, Round Two, the Region Championship, the State Semis, and the Championship. Each class has 32 teams in the playoffs, so you can see how this works out.

In each class, there are 4 regions. In each region there are two districts, for a total of 8 districts in each class. Now, 1A and 6A only have 32 teams i believe, so even if you go 0-10, you still make the playoffs. The other classes dont have much more that that to be honest, and most districts in this state are now 4 team districts due to the move from 4 classes to 6.

Now in the playoffs, the first four teams of your district get into the playoffs.
In the first round you play the seed opposite you in your region.
For example, in Class 5A Region 4, there are two districts as stated above. Districts 7 and 8. The 1 seed from district 7 plays the 4 seed from district 8. The 2 seed from district 7 plays the 3 seed from district 8, the 3 seed from district 7 goes on the road to play the 2 seed from District 8 and the 4 seed from district 7 goes on the road to play the 1 seed from district 8.

Then, after the first two rounds, the two teams left in the region play for the region championship and the winner advances to face the winner of region 3.

If you win that game, the winner advance to the state championship in Bowling Green where you face the winner of the region 1 and region 2.

To put it in perspective, In each class, Region 1 and 2 are usually teams in the western half of the state, while region 3 and 4 are in the eastern part of the state.

I know this was long, but its actually very simple. To understand it more easily, here is a bracket of last years 5A playoffs....http://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/kh...ent_118005

If youll look at the bottom of the bracket where region 4 is, youll see the teams from district 7 and 8.

District 7 standings were, 1. Pulaski County, 2. Madison Southern, 3. North Laurel, 4. Lincoln County.
District 8 standings were 1. Harlan County, 2. Whitley County, 3. Perry Central, 4. Letcher Central.

Harlan County, being the 1 seed played district 7s four seed, Lincoln County, and won, then played district 7's two seed Madison Southern and won, then played in the region championship against district 7's 1 seed Pulaski County, and won, and then went to the state semis where the lost to region 3 champ Cooper. Cooper than lost at the state title game to Bowling Green.

Hope I didnt confuse you more, but its very simple, dont let my long thought out thinking process confuse you. Its very simple to understand.

It is very similar here in South Carolina, an Upper State and Lower State champion play in the state championship. Tennessee adopted the illustrious "Z-Plan" in 2009. In dI,There are 3 classifications in the regular season that expand to 6 for the play-offs. A- expands to A and 2A, AA expands to 3A and 4A, and AAA expands to 5A and 6A. Yes it is as complicated as it sounds and seeding is a nightmare. It was so bad the first year that teams made the play-offs with 4-6 records. Prior to 2009, Greeneville's enrollment made them a larger AAA school but they chose to play AAAA to preserve long-standing rivalries. After the adoption of the Z-plan, Greeneville decided to play in their assigned classification. It is a decision that had paid off for the Devils since they no longer had to face now 6A powerhouse , Maryville, in the play-offs. Since 2009, Greeneville has played in the 4A state championship 3 times, winning 2.