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Just a year after realignment shook up Kentucky’s high school football playoff system, new changes are in store for the upcoming season.

While the simple crossing of districts for the first round of the playoffs won’t be nearly as complex as last year’s changes — when two additional classes were created — it has once again stirred varying opinions among area coaches.

Now, in classes 1A (the smallest schools) through 5A, odd districts will be pitted against even districts in the first round, starting with District 1 against District 2. District 3 will meet District 4 and so on through the last district of each class.

Class 6A, which doesn’t have any northeastern Kentucky schools in it, will work a little differently. It will match districts for the first round on a random draw.

The format is new for this coming season, but is the same as it was before the six-class system.

Just as last season’s new changes — which upped the teams making the playoffs from 128 to 192 (87 percent) — got varying responses around northeastern Kentucky coaches, the new format for 2008 is doing the same.

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