CIF SS Football Playoffs: Division Champions
DIV 1: Mater Dei
DIV 2: Newbury Park
DIV 3: Edison
DIV 4: Pacifica/ Oxnard
DIV 5: Palos Verdes
DIV 6: Murrieta Mesa
DIV 7: Rio Hondo Prep
DIV 8: St. Pius/ St. Matthias
DIV 9: Highland
DIV 10: Silverado
DIV 11: Portola
DIV 12: Palmdale
DIV 13: Pasadena
DIV 14: Pioneer
Mira Mesa High of San Diego CIF roared into the playoffs with a 0-10 record. So our 1-9 guys earned their invite.
@ Detached Observer: You just gave us an excellent summation of the flaws in the current playoff system. It’s unbelievable that even teams with 1-9 records are allowed into the playoffs now. The top priority at CIF is clearly something other than quality football.
By the way, I remember that point shaving was illegal for sports in which there was legalized gambling. Point spreads have historically been all-important when it comes to wagering on NFL, college football, and college basketball games. Lots of money has changed hands when those spreads are messed with.
But of course, you’re talking about high school teams “sandbagging” so they can get into a preferred division and score a high playoff seeding in return for less effort.
I think the answer is to have Divisions created prior to the start of the season. I don’t want to eliminate small school football or the opportunity for a hardship school to have a playoff run.
If Keppel had their best team in history and finished second in Almont , they may get shipped into D12 , sent on road and lose in first round. Why ? A much better path would be to be mediocre , slip into playoffs as wild card on D14; if lottery wheel of CIF is kind you might get a 2 seed in lowest division filled with questionable teams. And somehow everyone will think that a D14 champ was better than D-12 team that would have beat them by 3 touchdowns or more.
The current system encourages early season losses and point shaving . It allows horrible teams (1-9 Pius X ) from good leagues to get good seeds against relatively lower competition.
It defines D14 as the worst 7% of teams in playoffs, so that no quality team can be in the Division. It arbitrarily creates “room “ for wild cards in some divisions but not in others .
Btw, most of the finals games were blowouts ! The finals games used to be great , and some early round mismatches . Now the early rounds are amazing and the finals average margin of victory 20 points .
Okay, Every champion Div 6-14 give back your plaques. You’re not worthy according to all the football gurus on this site
I’ve seen post game celebrations at championship in many divisions. Common thread kids and their fans celebrate the same
Tipping point is on point. Well said.
Sad old TROLLS!!!
I like Tipping Point.
Ugly women don’t get to be Miss Universe; crappy old cars don’t qualify as great rides; poor guys don’t have financial power, and teams with negative power ratings are not championship material. Hope this quick tutorial helped.
In what way does it hurt you that 5 more teams get to call themselves champions?
CIF needs to decide if it’s going to continue adding more and more lousy divisions to its product offerings, or if it’s going to rein-in the nonsense and make the playoffs mean something again. I’ve said it before, and here I go again: only teams with positive power ratings at season’s end should be admitted to the postseason. Following this rule, there would be only 9 divisions…plenty by a long shot.
There ought to be fewer divisions, if anything. The programs that are struggling to field a team, let alone play winning football, should go to the 8-Man Division, which already exists.
Next year, we will see Divisions 15 & 16