UIL sets new playoff policy for smaller schools
AUSTIN (AP) — State championship football games will have predetermined sites in all Texas high school classifications starting next year.
The University Interscholastic League’s Legislative Council voted recently to have fixed sites in classes 1A through 4A.
The state’s largest classification, 5A, is in the third year of having both title games at the same site.
Below 5A, coaches still determine championship games sites either by mutual agreement or a coin flip, just as they do through each round of the playoffs.
UIL officials say they haven’t decided whether games will be played at the same site.
Under the current playoff format, the largestschool Division I championship games for classes 3A, 2A and 1A are a week earlier than the title games in the small-school Division II.
Also starting in 2010, Class 2A will be split into large-school and smallschool divisions before the season starts.
Currently, that process takes place before the playoffs.




