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I was just giving the breakdown of how many football schools fell in each classification. Not an actual proposal. I started to type a longer post but figured no one really wanted to read it. But since you asked (not really, but just go with me on this...) Those breakdowns could go a few ways. Top-down. Use the 1400+ hard cap for 5A/6A. That leaves 248 for 1A - 4A, or 62 per class if divided evenly. 6A would have 32 and 5A would have 37. Bottom-up. Use the under 325 for 1A - which leaves 50 schools for 1A. Go ahead and make 6A top 32, which would leave 235 for 2A - 5A, or around 59 per class. As a math guy who comes from a small town, I kind of like the 'floor' of under 325 is 1A. 50 schools. Then make 6A the biggest 32 and 5A the next 48. This leaves 62/63 for 2A, 3A, and 4A. What makes basketball so "easy" is they have 16 sectionals and they really don't care about # of teams. There are 5, 6 7 and 8 team sectionals and no one bats an eye. If 5A were 48 teams, that makes 6 team sectionals. If that were the case, should the bye teams face each other in week 2, or both go on the road vs week 1 winners? Competitive balance is important IMO. But then again we're talking about an organization that uses ping-pong balls, so maybe it's not that important???