Now that we have the first game of the season over with and hopefully all the mistakes and miscues that come with those season opening games. We can now focus on the final games of the regular season.
Enrollment numbers at each school district will be turned in to the state in a few weeks and look for a downward trend in numbers at many schools and with that many changes in classification for schools.
I am amazed at the number of schools playing 8-man football and I actually look for more schools to join the 8-man ranks, and for 6-man football to grow also.
Here in a few weeks the AD’s and football coaches will get together and have the next 2 years football schedules organized, and I am excited to see how that plays out also.
I keep wondering if more schools, who can’t get good numbers, to go out for football, will start playing 8-man or 6-man football, no matter what their classification is and just playing an independent schedule and then won’t be playing in the state playoffs.
Look for that to be a growing trend.
Super Top 10 All-Classes
1. St Thomas Aquinas
2. Manhattan
3. Mill Valley
4. Blue Valley NW
5. Wichita NW
6. Hays
7. Derby
8. Great Bend
9. Free State
10. Gardner-Edgerton
11. Andale
12. Kapaun
6A
1. Manhattan
2. Blue Valley NW
3. Wichita NW
4. Free State
5. Derby
Others: Gardner-Edgerton
5A
1. Aquinas
2. Mill Valley
3. Great Bend
4. Hays
5. St James
Others: none
4A
1. Kapaun
2. Bishop Miege
3. Buhler
4. Wamego
5. Wellington
Others: Chanute, Ottawa, Andover Central
3A
1. Andale
2. Hayden
3. Wellsville
4. Holcomb
5. Rock Creek
Others: Cheney, Collegiate, Scott City
2A
1. SE of Saline
2. Nemaha Central
3. Beloit
4. Osage City
5. Hoisington
Others: Council Grove, Garden Plain
1A
1. Conway Springs
2. Jackson Heights
3. Rossville
4. Centralia
5. Sterling
Others: Marion, St Marys Colgan
8-man D-I
1. South Central
2. Central Plains
3. Wichita Co-Leoti
4. Little River
5. Clifton-Clyde
Others: Atwood, Lincoln
8-man D-II
1. Axtell
2. Hanover
3. Victoria
4. Burlingame
5. Osborne
Others: Frankfort, Hodgeman Co
6-man
1. Weskan
2. Cunningham
3. Tescott
4. Golden Plains
5. Otis-Bison
Others: Marais des Cygnes, Ingalls, South Barber
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