Pick your poison...a bunch of average teams making the playoffs or an 0-10 team making it. And the even more idiotic thing about the 0-10 team making it was the fact that no one had enough functional brain cells to slip in a "better overall record" tiebreaker prior to resorting to flipping a coin.
At end of day the issue is probably the result of two major things
One, 8 classes is too many
Two, the regions in the small classes are too small and with no districts you are going to have a lot of bad teams making the playoffs no matter what system they use
All the defunct teams who won state titles
1968 and 69 Delray Carver. (Merged with Seacrest to form Atlantic)
1968 Chapman High Apalachicola (merged with Carrabelle High in 2006 to form Franklin County)
1969 Lithia Pinecrest (merged with Marshall, Turkey Creek and Plant City to create one Plant City High)
1970 and 71 Hastings High. (Not sure if they merged to create a new school. Will check)
1975 Greensboro (merged with Chattahoochee High in 2003 to form West Gadsden. And then merged again in 2017 to form Gadsden County High)
1979 Ernest Ward (merged with Century High in 1995 to form Northview High)
1982 and 84 Pensacola Woodham (closed in 2007 and opened as a middle school)
2005 Evangel Christian Lakeland (closed and then reopened as Victory Christian)
Woodham out of Pensacola is one who was nationally ranked at one point
Plus I think Gilbert in Jacksonville won state prior to playoff era and closed in early 1970s
Some of them do. Bottom line, when UF lines up against LSU, you've got some darn good Florida kids going up against some darn good Louisiana kids. If there was something magic in the water in Florida, the Gators would likely dominate.
LMAO this is why I argue 1a and 2a need to merge the regions Into 2 instead of 4
North FL educational is AWFUL
How can they possibly be in a situation to make the playoffs