Football playoff format...wishful thinking

[VolNation85]

Now that we have so many schools in Virginia, it is common for a team to travel long distances for playoff games. This year we've already seen Prince George travel to Fleming, JF travel to Sherando, and PH-Roanoke travel to Matoaca. All of those trips are over 2h 45min one direction. It's obvious that long trips doesn't matter to VHSL and I'm completely fine with it. Now to the point of my post.

I wish VHSL would re-seed the tournament after the second round of the playoffs based off of end of regular season power ratings. This would increase the likelihood of the two best teams meeting in the championship game. If they did this for this year we would have some interesting match ups that we usually wouldn't see. Under this format we would have the following games Thanksgiving week;

#8 Hampton @ #1 Dinwiddie
#5 Sherando @ #4 John Champe
#6 Tuscarora @ #3 Phoebus
#7 Salem @ #2 Varina

 

[Phoebus Fan]

Nah don’t like this idea. Regional championships would be eliminated. I like the idea of the 4 best teams from each area being in the final four. I like they switched the state semi matchups up

 

[VolNation85]

Nah don’t like this idea. Regional championships would be eliminated. I like the idea of the 4 best teams from each area being in the final four. I like they switched the state semi matchups up

I agree that not having Region champions would suck but I don't really care which areas are represented in the Final 4. I just want the best 4 teams, regardless of where they're from.

 

[SFUWO]

Now that we have so many schools in Virginia, it is common for a team to travel long distances for playoff games. This year we've already seen Prince George travel to Fleming, JF travel to Sherando, and PH-Roanoke travel to Matoaca. All of those trips are over 2h 45min one direction. It's obvious that long trips doesn't matter to VHSL and I'm completely fine with it. Now to the point of my post.

I wish VHSL would re-seed the tournament after the second round of the playoffs based off of end of regular season power ratings. This would increase the likelihood of the two best teams meeting in the championship game. If they did this for this year we would have some interesting match ups that we usually wouldn't see. Under this format we would have the following games Thanksgiving week;

#8 Hampton @ #1 Dinwiddie
#5 Sherando @ #4 John Champe
#6 Tuscarora @ #3 Phoebus
#7 Salem @ #2 Varina

I don't like the reseeding idea. Power points are determined by similar teams in the region. Let the best teams in the regions battle it out. Rotate the regions every yr.

 

[Phoebus Fan]

I agree that not having Region champions would suck but I don't really care which areas are represented in the Final 4. I just want the best 4 teams, regardless of where they're from.

if a team loses in their region then they’re not one of the best 4 teams then