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Not a fan. Did 8 teams just become rural overnight? 

Looks at this point in the season that 6A has the best winning percentage overall vs all the classes.  Probably a good indication of a high number of solid teams in this classification which is also reflected in the rankings. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of separation in rankings by most sources and those by the wise men at FHSAA.   Hopefully that gap will close by seasons end to lend more credibility to the seeding formula for all teams.   Somehow in never favors us as evidenced 3 years ago having to travel to Vero for regional championship and winning easily.  Same can be said last year having to travel for both the regional (Armwood) and state Semi (Buchholz).  Now they have South Lake ahead of us with the #2 seed in our Region.  Headscratcher for sure.  No offense Beek. 

So I guess you're not enthusiastic about the FHSAA proposal to expand the Rural division from 32 to 40 teams in the next classification cycle (2026-27)?

The fact that the rural class is a combined 30-27 against 1A, 2A and 3A proves they don’t need their own special little class

1152 games played thus far between Florida schools from different classifications. This equates to approximately 60% of all in state games played through week 8.  That alone, should say enough. 7A vs CL W - L     6A 33 - 39     5A 17 - 20     4A 21 - 29     3A 17 - 11     2A 8 - 4     1A 2 - 5     Rur 1 - 4     Ind 21 - 7     SSA 4 - 3       124 - 122             6A vs CL W - L     7A 39 - 33     5A 35 - 29     4A 34 - 26     3A 24 - 12     2A 7 - 17     1A 2 - 4     Rur 2 - 3     Ind 11 - 3     SSA 1 - 1       155 - 128             5A vs CL W - L     7A 20 - 17     6A 29 - 35     4A 32 - 26     3A 36 - 26     2A 8 - 14     1A 4 - 6     Rur 4 - 3     Ind 10 - 1     SSA 1 - 2       144 - 130             4A vs CL W - L     7A 29 - 21     6A 26 - 34     5A 26 - 32     3A 39 - 29     2A 16 - 16     1A 10 - 7     Rur 2 - 1     Ind 11 - 3     SSA 5 - 7       164 - 150             3A vs CL W - L     7A 11 - 17     6A 12 - 24     5A 26 - 36     4A 29 - 39     2A 15 - 21     1A 10 - 4     Rur 5 - 9     Ind 11 - 3     SSA 10 - 11       129 - 164             2A vs CL W - L     7A 4 - 8     6A 17 - 7     5A 14 - 8     4A 16 - 16     3A 21 - 15     1A 20 - 24     Rur 11 - 11     Ind 8 - 5     SSA 12 - 17       123 - 111             1A vs CL W - L     7A 5 - 2     6A 4 - 2     5A 6 - 4     4A 7 - 10     3A 4 - 10     2A 24 - 20     Rur 11 - 10     Ind 15 - 8     SSA 25 - 18       101 - 84             Rur vs CL W - L     7A 4 - 1     6A 3 - 2     5A 3 - 4     4A 1 - 2     3A 9 - 5     2A 11 - 11     1A 10 - 11     Ind 7 - 4     SSA 17 - 20       65 - 60             Ind vs CL W - L     7A 7 - 21     6A 3 - 11     5A 1 - 10     4A 3 - 11     3A 3 - 11     2A 5 - 8     1A 8 - 15     Rur 4 - 7     SSA 6 - 28       40 - 122             SSA vs CL W - L     7A 3 - 4     6A 1 - 1     5A 2 - 1     4A 7 - 5     3A 11 - 10     2A 17 - 12     1A 18 - 25     Rur 20 - 17     Ind 28 - 6       107 - 81