Week 6 Football Playoff Listing
September 26, 2012
Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the fifth week of the season. Schools on this list are in enrollment order. An asterisk (*) beside a record indicates that a team has eight or fewer games scheduled. A carrot (^) beside a school’s name indicates that a team is one win away from playoff qualification.
Those schools with 11-player teams with six or more wins playing nine-game schedules, or five or more wins playing eight games or fewer, will qualify for the MHSAA Football Playoffs beginning Oct. 26-27. Schools with 5-4, 4-3 or 4-4 records may qualify if the number of potential qualifiers by win total does not reach the 256 mark. Schools with six or more wins playing nine-game schedules or five or more wins playing eight games or fewer may be subtracted from the field based on playoff average if the number of potential qualifiers exceeds the 256 mark.
Once the 256 qualifying schools are determined, they will be divided by enrollment groups into eight equal divisions of 32 schools, and then drawn into regions of eight teams each and districts of four teams each.
Those schools with 8-player teams will be ranked by playoff average at season’s end, and the top 16 programs will be drawn into regions of eight teams each for the playoff in that division, which also begins Oct. 26-27.
To review a list of all football playoff schools, individual school playoff point details and to report errors, visit the Football page of the MHSAA Website.
The announcement of the qualifiers and first-round pairings for both the 11 and 8-player playoffs will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 21 on the Selection Sunday Show on FOX Sports Detroit. The playoff qualifiers and pairings will be posted to the MHSAA Website following the Selection Sunday Show.
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11-Player Playoff Listing
|
1. |
Utica Eisenhower |
2772 |
3-2 |
62.000 |
|
2. |
Sterling Heights Stevenson |
2766 |
4-1 |
75.800 |
|
3. |
Clarkston ^ |
2721 |
5-0 |
94.400 |
|
4. |
Grand Blanc |
2644 |
3-2 |
57.600 |
|
5. |
Macomb Dakota |
2608 |
4-1 |
80.600 |
|
6. |
Lake Orion ^ |
2565 |
5-0 |
96.000 |
|
7. |
Rockford |
2526 |
3-2 |
57.400 |
|
8. |
Troy |
2502 |
3-2 |
57.400 |
|
9. |
Clinton Township Chippewa Valley |
2462 |
4-1 |
77.000 |
|
10. |
Dearborn Fordson |
2442 |
4-1 |
83.400 |
|
11. |
Holland West Ottawa |
2262 |
4-1 |
71.000 |
|
12. |
Northville |
2220 |
3-2 |
60.400 |
|
13. |
Detroit Cass Tech |
2200 |
4-1 |
77.400 |
|
14. |
Canton |
2166 |
3-2 |
51.200 |
|
15. |
Monroe ^ |
2154 |
5-0 |
83.200 |
|
16. |
Detroit Catholic Central |
2060 |
3-2 |
47.800 |
|
17. |
Plymouth |
2050 |
4-1 |
71.200 |
|
18. |
Salem |
2039 |
4-1 |
75.600 |
|
19. |
Livonia Stevenson |
2005 |
4-1 |
77.200 |
|
20. |
Holt |
1992 |
3-2 |
57.200 |
|
21. |
Hartland ^ |
1932 |
5-0 |
91.200 |
|
22. |
Warren Mott ^ |
1879 |
5-0 |
86.400 |
|
23. |
Livonia Churchill ^ |
1877 |
5-0 |
100.800 |
|
24. |
Walled Lake Central |
1857 |
3-2 |
52.200 |
|
25. |
Macomb L'Anse Creuse North |
1853 |
3-2 |
58.400 |
|
26. |
Saline |
1849 |
4-1 |
72.400 |
|
27. |
Grandville |
1846 |
3-2 |
53.600 |
|
28. |
Flint Carman-Ainsworth ^ |
1772 |
5-0 |
88.000 |
|
29. |
Grand Ledge |
1743 |
4-1 |
70.600 |
|
30. |
Rochester |
1725 |
4-1 |
72.800 |
|
31. |
Traverse City West |
1720 |
4-1 |
72.200 |
|
32. |
White Lake Lakeland |
1700 |
4-1 |
72.400 |
|
33. |
Harrison Township L'Anse Creuse |
1680 |
3-2 |
Moment: Johnson Follows Purple Wall
October 15, 2020
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Brad Johnson saw the wall and was off to the races.
The star do-everything player for Schoolcraft had already scored one touchdown on the day in the 1988 Class D Football Final against Frankfort at the Pontiac Silverdome, and back in a punt return mode in the second quarter, he faked a reverse, saw the wall and he was gone.
An 87-yard punt return, the longest in state finals history by a good 25 yards.
“After making my fake, I looked up and there was a wall,” Johnson told the Detroit Free Press. “All I had to do was outrun everybody.”
The play gave the Eagles a 21-7 lead at the time and broke the game wide open. Schoolcraft cruised to a 42-7 victory to finish the season at 13-0.
PHOTO by Gary Shook.