5A Division 1 Playoff Bracket (2024)

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What does it mean to be a 5A school in Texas? ›

Class 5A includes an enrollment range of 1,315-2,274 students and it includes 252 schools. The classification cutoffs were released in December.

A 5-team single-elimination bracket is a competition where each match pits two of the ten teams against each other; the winner advances and the loser is eliminated from the single-elimination tournament. This continues until only one team from the original 5-team bracket remains.

There are many different ways to score a March Madness bracket. The most common method is to award 1 point for correct predictions in the first round, 2 in the second round, 4 in the third, 8 in the fourth, 16 in the fifth, and 32 in the sixth and final round.

The new 12-team College Football Playoff field will include the five highest-ranked conference champions, which will receive automatic bids. The seven highest-ranked teams remaining will round out the 12-team format. The top four teams will receive a first-round bye to the quarterfinals.

That gives us a Class 7A composed of schools across the state with 3,270 students or more. Looking at the existing Texas high school sports landscape, 47 schools already meet or exceed the 3,270-student enrollment cutoff.

How Does the Playoff Bracket Work? Once the seven teams are picked, they are each assigned a seed number based on their record and any required tiebreaking factors. The winningest team is the 1 seed, the team with the most losses is the 7 seed, and everyone else fills in accordingly.

The bracket consists of two brackets: a winners (W) bracket and a losers (L) bracket. This means there are two brackets to track to determine the eventual winner of the final round. It works like this: All teams start out in the W bracket for the first round. The losers of the first round move to the L bracket.

For a decade, the CFP was only a four-team playoff. Starting with the 2024 season, it moved up to 12 teams. The CFP Selection Committee ranks its own top 25, using factors like strength of schedule, results, championships won, common opponents and more.

That run of 49 correct games will be very hard to top in the future. The odds of a perfect 63-game NCAA bracket can be as high as 1 in 9.2 quintillion — though those are the perfect bracket odds if every game was a 50-50 coin flip.

How does scoring a bracket work? ›

The four teams which win their respective divisions in each conference earn spots, while the remaining three remaining places are given to the non-division winning teams who have the best records in their respective conferences, these are known as "wild-card spots".

Notre Dame and the other independent teams aren't able to get one of those top four seeds and a bye because they can't become conference champions - even with that friends with benefits deal with the ACC. That means if the Irish go 12-0 and wipe out everyone 58-3, the best they can do is be a 5-seed.

Now, one Group of 5 conference champion will make the playoff every year.

Michigan and Washington entered the playoff with undefeated 13–0 records while Texas and Alabama entered 12–1. The semifinals were both played on January 1, 2024. The first semifinal was played at the Rose Bowl and matched No. 1 Michigan with No. 4 Alabama.

Class 6A consists of 249 schools with a minimum enrollment 2,275. Some schools below the 6A enrollment cutoff petitioned to be (or stay) in 6A, like two-time defending 6A Division II state football champion DeSoto, which reported an enrollment of 2,127.

The 4A enrollment range is 545-1,314 students. Bellville's Khaymon Jones and Gilmer's Ta'Erik Tate go for a jump ball in the UIL 4A Division II title at AT&T Stadium in December.

Across North America, the classes have often been based on enrollment levels of the schools, with many leagues using classifications named A, AA, AAA, etc., with the number of As denoting schools with larger enrollment, but alternative schemes are also employed.