Past state playoff brackets and seeds

LooseCannon

Heisman
Jan 8, 2008
154,864
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Working on an evening project/hobby....Does anyone out there know or somehow have the seeds and brackets from the football playoffs from 2000-2021? The NSAA lists results, but the brackets are not online. Striv did the behind the bracket series so I can see those, but the started doing that in only 2022.

I am a big graphic person and curious to see what the seeds were and recreate the brackets in a viewable graphic format.

I will share some once I have them complete. Any insights or knowledge would be appreciated!
 

Alum-Ni

Heisman
Aug 29, 2004
47,535
44,800
113
Working on an evening project/hobby....Does anyone out there know or somehow have the seeds and brackets from the football playoffs from 2000-2021? The NSAA lists results, but the brackets are not online. Striv did the behind the bracket series so I can see those, but the started doing that in only 2022.

I am a big graphic person and curious to see what the seeds were and recreate the brackets in a viewable graphic format.

I will share some once I have them complete. Any insights or knowledge would be appreciated!
I don't see the actual "bracket" but I think the way the NSAA lists the game results you could re-make the brackets on your own.....just would be missing the seeding

(i.e. https://nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/fbl/fbover12.htm)

Also they have actual programs from 2012 and onward, which shows brackets, but not sure about seeds

(those are linked at the very bottom of the History & Records section)
 
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LooseCannon

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Jan 8, 2008
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I don't see the actual "bracket" but I think the way the NSAA lists the game results you could re-make the brackets on your own.....just would be missing the seeding

(i.e. https://nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/fbl/fbover12.htm)

Also they have actual programs from 2012 and onward, which shows brackets, but not sure about seeds

(those are linked at the very bottom of the History & Records section)
Correct, I really am going for that look with seeds and records.

I'm surprised that in the programs that the seeds weren't listed.

Again, not the end of the world, just something I want to work on as a historic preservation piece.
 

Alum-Ni

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Aug 29, 2004
47,535
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IT would take a ton of work, but they do have a wildcard archive....you could figure out the seeding again, but would take time.
 
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WeHaveTheMeats

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Jul 29, 2025
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MaxPreps can take you back to 2011

Bobby Mills did a year by year for 8-man if you want to search his articles

If you have a subscription, might be able to do a deep dive into the Omaha World Herald archives.
 

SpaghettiSlayer

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Jul 3, 2025
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Experimented a little bit with the wildcard archive and past playoff results. The older playoff results list the games in the order that they would appear in a bracket, even though seeds are not stated. 1, 16, 8, 9, 4, 13, 5, 12... Only thing is that these are game results, so you would have to use the wildcard archive to see who's the 1, and who's the 16 (because upsets happen often in the 7v10, 8v9...). Second round lists games in similar order, with the 1st second round game featuring the winners of the first two games listed in the first round. Repeats through all rounds as a bracket would.

Randomly clicked 2005 D2 to test out. Starts with Clay Center beats Shickley, Dodge beats Lindsay HF... Clay Center was undefeated and had ton of wildcard points, Shickley was about even record, so 1 and 16 seem clear. Then I see that Dodge has slightly less points than Lindsay HF (41 to 41.125), so I would assume that is a 9 seed beating an 8 seed.

Then... we have to remember the whole East/West split in C and D. Kenesaw has more points than Clay Center in our example, but they're in the 9th game listed down, so they would be the 1 seed for the West half. First half of all teams/games listed are East, second half are all West.

Then... later came the re-seeding after first round tournaments of recent years. I would guess that the first round games are still shown in their 1,16,8,9 order and split East/West. Second round and on would be "off" because of re-seeding, but I would just get the first round seeds and keep the seed number of the winners and go from there.
 

just_average32

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Jan 12, 2010
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Working on an evening project/hobby....Does anyone out there know or somehow have the seeds and brackets from the football playoffs from 2000-2021? The NSAA lists results, but the brackets are not online. Striv did the behind the bracket series so I can see those, but the started doing that in only 2022.

I am a big graphic person and curious to see what the seeds were and recreate the brackets in a viewable graphic format.

I will share some once I have them complete. Any insights or knowledge would be appreciated!
Couple options maybe. I bet the NSAA would have a record of old pdfs or old brackets on file. Second option, which is more labor intensive, you could use online newspaper databases. The LJS and OWH usually post the seeds/brackets.

I.e this one from 2018 for the eight man brackets
 

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Coach1021

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Feb 23, 2009
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Remember it used to be split into 4 8 team pods as well. Far west, then west, east central and east with the two west meeting up and the two east before finals. I believe that was from approximately 2001 to 2010.
 
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o_runningback43

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Feb 22, 2021
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Remember it used to be split into 4 8 team pods as well. Far west, then west, east central and east with the two west meeting up and the two east before finals. I believe that was from approximately 2001 to 2010
Splitting into pods was terrible. The split it east west and then also went north south. Teams would play their district schedule and then have one or two rematches with teams from their districts in the playoffs.
 

LooseCannon

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Jan 8, 2008
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Splitting into pods was terrible. The split it east west and then also went north south. Teams would play their district schedule and then have one or two rematches with teams from their districts in the playoffs.
Did they do that for two years or four years? I remember it was that way in 2004 and 2005, but wasn't sure if it was like that in 2002 or 2003. I know it wasn't like that in 2006.
 

o_runningback43

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Feb 22, 2021
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Did they do that for two years or four years? I remember it was that way in 2004 and 2005, but wasn't sure if it was like that in 2002 or 2003. I know it wasn't like that in 2006.
I think it was four years, but I'm not sure. Definitely happened in 2004 and 2005, but I don't remember if they did that in 2002 and 2003 or not.
 
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