CIF San Diego Section flag waving at Qualcomm Stadium during section title games.
According to East County Sports, the CIF San Diego Section Board of Managers approved a new playoff system for seven prep sports including football. Teams will now be placed in divisions based on performance instead of enrollment.
Divisions one through five will remain in existence, but an Open Division will be added to house eight teams considered to be the best in the county. It will have its own playoff in which all teams automatically qualify for despite regular season performance. The last team standing will be crowned the CIF San Diego Section Champion.
Meanwhile teams from the original divisions will have to earn the right to be "division winners" and hope its enough to move up the divisional ladder.
While no system is perfect, it can't possibly be fair that only a predetermined eight teams have a chance to earn the section's most prestigious title. There has to be a better solution.
Using football as an example, we came up with a proposal to make the CIF San Diego Section playoffs a more fair and exciting way to crown a true section champion.
