Three-peats in 2017 Virginia state championship games

[BlueFan]

There are four three-peats and one two-peat in the state championship games this year:

Virginia 1A
Riverbend 42 (two-peat)
Chilhowie 0

Virginia 2A
Appomattox 38 (three-peat)
R.E. Lee 34

Virginia 3A
Hopewell 20
Heritage (Lynchburg) 14

Virginia 4A
Salem 43 (three-peat)
Louisa County 22

Virginia 5A
Highland Springs 40 (three-peat)
Tuscarora 27

Virginia 6A
Westfield 28 (three-peat)
Oscar Smith 21

Source: VHSL Reference


That’s a lot of three-peats in Virginia football, four out of six games. Is this good for Virginia football?

 

[ERFootball#1]

Damn, that's a joke. VHSL watered down the playoffs for the entire state and made it so much easier now with all the groups and shifts with conferences then regions or whatever we're on now. All these repeats in football and look at a lot of the same teams that have been winning in basketball too. Also more teams with bad records getting in the playoffs. Not too long ago we coulda been seeing Westfield face Highland Springs for the same title. They both might even 4-peat now! Probably true for schools in other divisions too with matchups. Guess VHSL just happy to be gettin their $$$$$. Sad.

 

[babY_d757]

I don’t like the new alignments regions set ups etc ! Westfield vs Smith game wasn’t even packed a lot had to do with same teams being there 3 years in a row same crappy stadium with slow concessions ! I would have loved to see a Westfield vs Highland Springs or Smith vs HSHS in a playoff match. Wasn’t Higland Springs D-5 back in the days ? Richmond Area schools are pretty rough to play since 201 LC Bird , Hermitage and HS have looked great to match up with anyone.