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Mayo has been to the second round of the playoffs two years in a row though. Their record being poor has to do with their schedule losses being vs QRF: 3 5 9 13 14 15 17 This is 2024 where they were nearly as good. In 2023 their losses were to QRF: 1 2 3 7 9 16 That was a pretty good team they...

You don’t even need to change it for playoffs Just make the district more like 48-64 for regular season. Instead of 32.

I think that last year the following teams would’ve been top 20 in 6a: Owatonna JM Chanhassen St Thomas academy Armstrong Cooper Elk River Andover Moorhead Alexandria Every year the top 10-15 in 5a are better than the bottom 8-12 in 6a In my opinion There is a question if they could hold up...

Because that’s just the vernacular name for it There are still federal qualifications for reductions to things like field trips, AP Tests, Etc There is a new way of calculating it this year I think which could explain some of the volatility. People weren’t opting in post pandemic with free...

So when coon rapids was supposed to be 6a a few years back…they appealed and said they couldn’t compete. MSHSL made 6a 31 for two years. In one of those years coon rapids went to 5a semifinals So they rigged the system so coon rapids could win. But in doing so they made 5a teams lose to a 6a...

Correct. The biggest thing 6a does is give a way for chaska, Chan, Alex, elk river, Mankato, etc to compete for state titles. The downside is that it basically by policy has forced 6-10 teams in the state into permanent loser status. In 6a football, because it is closed loop, there are...

I suspect 5-10 plays will be the difference between 5th (illinois) and 12th (nebraska) against next year like it was last year

Anyone picking the gophers between 7 and 12 is fair If you picked gophers top 6 they aren’t really jumping anyone way better If you pick them 13 or lower you’re a hater 10 is fair

The numbers are Oct headcount’s from 2024-25 if they came from MDE If they come from MSHSL they’ve been hit with a Free and reduced multiplier They’re 9-12 numbers for all schools even if 9th grade is at a junior high or two

The only fair way to do it is a formula and hard cut lines There are no ties Someone wins and someone loses So if you game the system so Hopkins plays 5a teams and is 4-4 instead of 2-6 Well you just cost St. Louis park and tartan a win too. You can’t rig it in favor of one without rigging it...

If you go autobids for conference I assume it would be up to the conferences to see how those are determined If there were auto bids in a system though it would open up a league like the big ten to playing 10 conference games without hurting playoff chances

What this would have looked like assuming Notre Dame was ACC: Championship Saturday: Army vs Ohio state Jacksonville State vs Alabama South Carolina vs Marshall Illinois vs Ohio Clemson vs Iowa state Winners join a field that includes: Indiana Penn state Oregon Texas Georgia...

If you went to that methodology, independents would have to either affiliate with a conference or be left out. I imagine both notre dame and the ACC would want notre dame to count as ACC because notre dame needs a way in and the ACC would rate higher if you included notre dame The way I drew...

Half of those schools qualify for free and reduced lunch. So those numbers make perfect sense to me. If you have 2600 kids. 1300 are free and reduced. Your MSHSL number would be 520 different

Yup. I wouldn’t mind it being like the champions league. Each league gets allotted spots based on a formula over a 5 year span: 16 spots SEC gets 4 Big ten gets 4 Big 12 gets 2 ACC gets 2 Mountain west gets 1 Last 3 spots are for “championship Saturday winners” MAC champ vs big ten 5 Sun...

Haven’t looked too much at them There may be errors in MSHSL numbers They say 6a is top 32 but their listed cut line is team 31 Perhaps someone opted up? Or perhaps some of the numbers are wrong? Or perhaps whoever posted cut line did it wrong

The real problem in Mn Hs football is obsession with the playoffs when the real issue is not enough competitive games in the regular season. Consolidate a class. Have the top 32 from each class make the playoff. A little over half would make it. The rest can play a 9th game against another non...

We saw it this year with Alabama rated higher than Miami and any number of teams ahead of BYU that shouldn’t have been Texas rated third with two losses and few quality wins. Tennessee with two losses (one of which was to 6-6 Arkansas) and 1 win over a team with 8+ wins rated higher than...

Anyone who mentions the weather has jumped the shark, the weather is only marginally different than about half the schools in D1 basketball Wisconsin and Michigan state can win because Madison and Lansing have 7 days per winter below zero instead of 11? NIL is definitely a thing Facilities...

It’s like if Maturi hired Mike grant instead of Tim Brewster Grant had same level of success as Brewster but was still the coach