An asterisk can be used to denote a number of things. If it appears next to someone’s name in record book, it likely means his achievement occurred over a longer season than the previous record holder (see Roger Maris) or that the record holder is a dirty, cheating juicer (see lots of people). An asterisk can also mean “but” or “unless” or “I’m not really sure and I’m using this punctuation mark to confuse you” which is more the direction I’m going below. Here are the playoff scenarios as I see them. Now, the upperstate, I’m pretty confident on. The things that have to happen for seeds or teams I have listed to change are far-flung. Most everything is pretty definitively settled. The lowerstate is a confusing pig pile with a dozen or so loose ends and most everything still up in the air…so much so that I probably shouldn’t have bothered. Some of the stuff is ALL BUT assured and would require an upset of mammoth proportions. Respectfully, Military Magnet isn’t going to beat Baptist Hill…but they COULD, so I have to allow for that and not write it in stone. So anyway, the 1A playoffs as they probably will be with a big fat *
Upperstate Region 2 #3 Lewisville* At Region 3 #3 Wagener-Salley Winner goes to McCormick** (who has a 1st round bye) At-large Denmark-Olar At Region 2 #2 Timmonsville Winner goes to Ridge Spring-Monetta (who has a 1st round bye) Region 3 #4 Hunter-Kinard-Tyler At Region 1 #3 Whitmire Winner goes to Lamar (who has a 1st round bye) Region 3 #5 Blackville-Hilda*** At Region 1 #2 Dixie Winner goes to Williston-Elko (who has a 1st round bye) *So long as they defeat Great Falls. A loss combined with a Lamar loss to McBee would move the Panthers to this spot and possibly make the Earth spin off its axis. If Great Falls beats Lewisville and McBee loses to Lamar, there is a three-way tie between Lewisville, McBee and Great Falls and each would be 1-1 against the other two teams, so it would be broken by defensive points allowed. Lewisville would get the spot so long as Great Falls does not score 61 points on them. **So long as they defeat Whitmire. A loss by the Chiefs combined with a Dixie win over Ware Shoals would create a three-way tie for first place. *** A Blackville-Hilda loss combined with a Denmark-Olar upset of Williston-Elko would put Denmark-Olar in this spot and Estill as the at-large team…and could result in dogs and cats sleeping together; mass hysteria. Lowerstate Region 5 #3 Scott’s Branch* At Region 6 #3 Hannah-Pamplico/Green Sea-Floyds/East Clarendon** Winner goes to Baptist Hill*** (who has a first round bye, pending that asterisk) At-Large At Region 5 #2 Cross Winner goes to loser of Hemingway/Lake View game Region 6 #4 Hannah-Pamplico/Green Sea-Floyds/East Clarendon**** At Region 4 #3 Military Magnet Winner goes to C.E. Murray***** At Large At Region 4 #2 St. John’s****** Winner goes to winner of Hemingway/Lake View game *If Scott’s Branch loses to C.E. Murray Friday, everything is neat and clean and the above seed is correct. If they beat C.E. Murray, though, then those two school and Cross are in a three-way tie for first and will all be 1-1 against each other. Defensive points allowed would break the tie and C.E Murray would have a big leg up in that department based on Cross big win over Scott’s Branch and C.E. Murray’s win over Cross, so this probably remains intact and the wacky stuff probably doesn’t happen. Of course, I didn’t think wacky stuff like the Bears completing four passes Sunday and still winning would happen either. **OK…if Hannah-Pamplico wins over Green Sea-Floyds, they are the number three seed. If Green Sea wins and East Clarendon defeats Creek Bridge there is a three-way tie between H-P, GS-F and East Clarendon, each will be 1-1 against the other two teams and defensive points allowed will decide the number three seed. If GS-F beats H-P and East Clarendon loses to Creek Bridge, then GS-F is the number three seed. *** If Baptist Hill defeats Military Magnet, they win Region 4 and get a number one seed and a first-round bye. If, let’s say, everyone at Baptist Hill drank from a tainted water bucket and all got mono and Military Magnet wins…and St. John’s beats the Charleston Scholastic Academy for Taxidermy and Life Skills, then Baptist Hill, St. John’s and Military Magnet will all be tied atop the region at 2-1 with each team 1-1 against the other. So we go the defensive points allowed route to determine first, second and third place. I mean, that’s probably not happened, but we’re covering our as…our bases here just in case. If St. John’s lost and Military Magnet beat Baptist Hill, then Military Magnet is your region champion, they get the number one seed and first round bye and I look like a tool for my silly mono joke. ****See my comments on **. We could get a three-way tie, it could be any of the three here blah blah blah. *****See my first lowerstate * because I’m not repeating all that crap again. ****** I know we’ve both grown a lot as people since ***, but it still holds. Just read that, apply it here and let’s be done with this. My best guess on the two at-large teams is that whoever comes out last in the Hannah-Pamplico, Green Sea-Floyds, East Clarendon scrum gets one of the spots and the winner of Bethune-Bowman v Branchville gets the other.
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