I respect your opinion, but my experience with seeding with regards to our team has been an issue for years and I believe it was also this year.  Take out my biased opinion and look at any ranking service (MaxPrep, LAZ, etc.) and we are ranked ahead of South Lake again intending no criticism of them.  Yet, the FHSAA seeding has us flipped.  One could make the argument it was that way last year not so much with Armwood as I believe as it should have been with Buchholz, two teams we beat on the way to the championship.  It was clearly obvious in 2022 when they had Vero ranked ahead of us forcing us to travel to only dominate them at their place 31-7 and the score could have been much worse.  Even in 2021 having to travel to Tampa to play Newsome where again we won.  It you were in my seat you would start wondering why regardless of transparency as it seems to be a pattern making me suspicious.  

This wouldn't have happened if they kept metro suburban like I said until I was blue in the face  Of course the fhsaa thought going back to a broken clock would suddenly mean the clock would fix itself and look at the results 

Yeah I hate that aspect of it. It basically rewards teams who can poach all the local talent and punishes teams in strong regions 

That would make sense, but I understood the original poster (HWY 17) was suggesting that only district champs would make the playoffs.  

There were 120 first round games played in the 8 FHSAA classifications this weekend.  The median (50% higher/50% lower) margin of victory was 28 points.  52 games (43%) were decided by 35+ points (running clock).  Only 31 games (26%) were decided by 14 points or less.  Other than a handful of competitive games, it was another round of lopsided games and blowouts.  Yes, sign me up for more of the same in the next reclassification cycle.  Sheesh!