Duncanville vs North Shore
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SOC won 5A title, Duncanville is 6A highest classification.There are also 2 divisions for each class. Duncanville won tonight.
Never understood that. There are 2 state champions in the same class. Why not play 1 more game and decide it.
They should!!!!! I live in Fort Worth and in my sons high school one team in his district went division 1 while his went division 2 playoffs in 6A. Has to do with enrollment obviously and generating money as it is a big day here as all games are played at one stadium- Jerry world in Arlington or Houston reliant stadium
They're split up even more because of enrollment. Division I (higher enrollment schools) vs II. There would definitely be some highly competitive final games between the two divisions though (Duncanville rolled DeSoto 41-17 earlier this year).
The DFW schools reigned this year. DeSoto (Lived there 10 years), Duncanville, South Oak Cliff and Aledo. Nebraska needs to spread the radius from 500 to 600 miles. Lots of good talent here. If Oklahoma poaches lots of product in Texas, why can't we?
Years ago, Texas only awarded one state champion in each conference. However, as the state’s population grew the UIL (governing body) decided to double the number of state champions without doubling the number of conferences. Per Google, Texas has 3,240 high schools (number grows my double digits every year) and Nebraska has 368 high schools. Texas has 6 conferences (1A through 6A). One conference (1A) plays 6-man football (the very small schools) and five conferences (2A-6A) play regular 11-man football. Texas awards 12 state champions (2 for each Conference or level) and Nebraska awards 7 state champions (one for each Class or level). Correct me if I'm wrong on the NE numbers. If TX only awarded one state champion per conference, there would only be 6 state champions out of approximately 3,240 high school vs 7 state champions out of approximately 368 high schools in NE (for comparison). I'm sure you can see why it's probably a good idea to have 12 champions instead of 6 in Texas. Heck, based on the ratio of state champions to schools in NE, Texas should have 62 state champions.
Now, why don't they have 12 conferences? It would be very difficult to schedule teams relatively close to many schools if they have 12 conferences based on the student populations of the high schools. Not necessarily in the major cities where most schools are 5A or 6A, but everywhere else where most schools are 1A through 4A. With 12 different enrollment brackets, teams may have to drive hundreds of miles to play the other schools in its district (some out in West Texas probably already do). By keeping only 6 conferences, there are twice as many potential opponents (teams primarily only play teams in the same conference) to play during the regular season. The conferences are divided into districts, (most with approximately 6-9 teams) and teams play everyone in their district plus a few non-district games to equal 10 regular season games. At the end of the season, based on school enrollment the largest 2 teams that qualify for the playoffs in each district play Division One and the smallest 2 teams that qualify play in Division 2. For example, 5A-Division 1, 5A-Divison 2. This effectively doubles the number of tournament brackets and creates 12 state champions instead of 6. State finalist teams play 16 games. I know, TLDR
