Playoff scenarios for final week of regular season
Here’s a look at the playoff scenarios for each region in Class AAAAA. This is not meant to include every possibility, because tiebreaker procedures vary from region to region and are not widely publicized. Instead, it is focused on the most likely or least complicated scenarios.
*Region 1: The winner of the Thomas County Central-Harris County game will be the region champion and the loser will be the No. 2 seed. The winner of the Lee County-Bainbridge game will be the No. 3 seed and the loser will be the No. 4 seed. Northside of Columbus and Hardaway have been eliminated from playoff contention.
*Region 2: Northside of Warner Robins has clinched the region title. Warner Robins and Lakeside of Evans have clinched playoff berths and play each other this week. Warner Robins can clinch the No. 2 seed with a victory. Jones County can secure a playoff berth with a victory against Grovetown on Friday. Grovetown still has a shot, but it needs to beat Jones County and hope for a Lakeside upset of Warner Robins.
*Region 3: Ware County, Effingham County and Richmond Hill have clinched playoff berths, and the other spot will go to the winner of the Glynn Academy-Jenkins game. The winner of the Ware County-Effingham County game will win the region title.
*Region 4: The winners of the four region play-in games will advance to the state playoffs. Those games are Ola at Whitewater, Drew at Creekside, McIntosh at Union Grove and Northgate at Mundy’s Mill. Whitewater will be the region champion if it beats Ola.
*Region 5: The winner of the East Paulding-Allatoona game will be the region champion and the loser will be the No. 2 seed. Rome has clinched third place, and North Paulding will finish in fourth place.
*Region 6: M.L. King has clinched the region title. Stephenson can clinch second place with a victory against North Atlanta, and Tucker can take the No. 3 seed with a victory against Mays. Southwest DeKalb, Miller Grove and Mays are tied for fourth place, but Southwest DeKalb will get the playoff berth barring an upset.
*Region 7: The winners of the four region play-in games will advance to the state playoffs. Those games are Creekview at Riverwood, Sequoyah at Sprayberry, Northview at Pope and Forsyth Central at Kell. Kell will be the region champion if it beats Forsyth Central.
*Region 8: The winner of the Flowery Branch-Gainesville game will be the region champion and the loser will be the No. 2 seed. Heritage of Conyers has clinched third place, and Clarke Central has clinched fourth place.
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THE "CANNON RULES"!!
November 8th, 2012
6:54 am
@ JAB…5AReg6Fan…SWD Panther Paw…swatguy…6AAAAA
No “Trash Talkin” here until we all get there BUT…I call to your attention the FACT that…
MAYS came to “THE BONEYARD” in a 2nd Round Playoff Game in 07…LOST 21 / 3!!!
SWD came to “THE BONEYARD” in a 1st Round Playoff Game last year…LOST 10 / 6!!
Tiger4Life and several other TUCKER poster and myself bantered back and forth about a possible EAST / TUCKER match-up in the dome last year BUT, EAST lost a hard fought game against a WARNER ROBINS team that lost the following week to LOVEJOY who went on to play TUCKER in the dome. We went to that game and TUCKER manhandled LOVEJOY all night!!! We can go IF, MAYBE, COULDA / WOULDA / SHOULDA all day but last year a EAST / TUCKER match-up would have been a great game to watch!!!
TICK…TICK…TICK…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
GO RAIDERS!!!!!!
SWD Panther Paw
November 8th, 2012
7:26 am
Decatur joe – SWD plays Dunwoody on Friday.
King Of Diamonds
November 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
Well we all have our favorites this year. I am going with region 6 5-A, but cheering for Stephenson. I hope this yar will be much different than previous years. There has been many great point of views from all posters on this blog. With spririted debates on who is this and who is that, at the end of the day it’s all about who puts the trophy in the air saying they are the number 1 team in the state for that year. For the re-alignment this year no one can claim that as of yet. There will be a first time team that gets to make history with this years state champion. I am excited to know that it will be a dog fight from week to week. With the tough schedule MLK, Stephenson, Tucker, SWD, MG, Mays, & North Atlanta, it felt like a playoff game every week in the region. this should help those teams that make it inthe playoffs if it comes down to a few minutes left in a game or scoring on the last drive or stopping an oppenant from scoring. The strength schedule in region6 was unbelievable. Lets hope that we didn’t beat up each other to much to where we are limping into the playoffs.
Good Luck to all teams in Region 6 5-A
EP "The Real" Raiders
November 8th, 2012
4:20 pm
I’m excited. No matter what happens tomorrow versus Allatoona, assuming a 1st round victory, EP’s secon round game would have to be either Stephenson or MLK. Finally, some opponents that are worth something!
SWD4Life
November 9th, 2012
9:37 am
Look guys/gals if any are commenting, basically things are closed and its set and here’s ur results. MLK 10-0
1- MLK
2- Stephenson
3- Tucker
4 – SWD
And like someone posted although we have our differences BC of where we went to school, its still a Dekalb county school and anyone cud go on a run and take this thing.
SWD4Life