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Scheduling Solution
September 27, 2016
One of our state's consistently best high school football programs needed a ninth game this season but could find no opponent within the state of Michigan. It was able to find a game with an equally prestigious football program in an adjacent state that was having the same problem – the "problem" of being such a formidable program year after year that other schools shied away from scheduling them.
Two different schools in two different states with two different football playoff formats and qualifying procedures, facing the same problem.
This helps to demonstrate that it is not any particular football playoff system that is at the heart of high school football scheduling difficulties. Much more at fault is human nature. One could change the qualifying system or double the number of qualifiers so that even winless teams make the playoffs, and some schools would still refuse to schedule others, which would then have to travel out of state to complete their schedules.
The solution to football scheduling will have very little to do with expanding the playoff field or changing the qualifying criteria. It is only when the scheduling of varsity football games is removed from the local level and assigned to the MHSAA that all teams will play the opponents that are closest to them in enrollment and location. Hard to fathom that will ever occur. But then, no team would have to travel out of state, or even across the state, to complete a varsity football schedule.
STATE CHAMPS! Michigan: Extra Point Week 2
September 1, 2022
This week on STATE CHAMPS! Extra Point. Lorne Plant, Sydney Cariel and Devin Gardner recap the notable games from Week 1 and they'll preview the marquee games going into Week 2.
1:27 - Southfield A&T vs. Cass Tech
3:34 - West Bloomfield vs. Sterling Heights Stevenson
4:57 - Rochester Adams vs. OLSM
6:22 - Macomb Dakota vs. Brother Rice
8:41 - Chippewa Valley vs. Detroit Catholic Central
10:21 - Trenton vs. Chelsea
12:22 - Top 20 Rankings
20:04 - Mr. Football Update
22:47 - DMC Gamechangers
25:58 - Anvil Award
31:45 - Southfield A & T vs. Clarkston Preview
32:26 - Catholic Central vs. Davison Preview
33:49 - Hudsonville vs. OLSM Preview
35:45 - De La Salle vs. Muskegon Preview
38:08 - Bally Sports Detroit Game of the Week Preview (Groves vs. Oxford)