[pirateforlife]

Why in the world can't it be as simple as this? And I'll use the number 16 just for example. Ever how many teams get in doesn't matter, I'll just say 16 for this:

Top 16 teams in each class make the playoffs. The final poll of the season will be used for the post season matchups.

#1 vs #16, #2 vs #15, #3 vs #14, and so on.

#1 through #8 gets home field advantage. Then the highest remaining seeds play home games.

Final two teams play at Kroger for the trophy.

And yes, it's something like the NCAA basketball tournament.

This is very simple and to the point. Do away with districts. Make your schedules and play football. Now they'd still need to figure out a way to keep teams from scheduling weak opponents just to go undeafeated and make the playoffs. A strength of schedule type of thing.

To me, something like this would be a whole lot more simpler than what's going on now.

I may be way off on this, but why couldnt this work?

Only reason they wont do it is because of travel. What if the 1 seed is pikeville and 16 is a team out past paducah? The KHSAA does not want teams traveling that far for games at least until round 4. They could rank 1-16 then seperate them into 1-8 east and 1-8 west and then it would be east vs west in the state championship. With this though, youd only need to win 4 games to win state instead of 5.