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Anyone have any guesses on how the brackets will look? Also, why didn't the 2A rankings change for this week?

i was wondering the same thing

Does anyone know why the 2A rankings didn't change?

i guess bc there was no reason for them to...the only losses in the top 10 were consistent with last weeks rankings, and they weren't too bad of beatings.

dude....EGS you go to clemson?

These are just guesses on the top Eight seeds.
1-Emerald, 2-Walhalla, 3-Pendleton, 4-Batesburg-Leesville, 5- Saluda, 6- Gilbert, 7-Broome, 8-West Oak. B-L and Saluda will be determined when they play the 26th.
Lower state-
1-BE, 2-Wade Hampton, 3-Waccamaw, 4-Andrew Jackson, 5-Barnwell, 6-Silver Bluff, 7-Hanahan, 8-Edisto
Barnwell is not ranked and S.B. and hanahan are. Hanahan could move to 5 and BWell to 6. But BWell came in 2nd in the region and S.B. third, so S.B. should not be seeded higher. Again these are just guesses.

Drave,

I am not all that familiar with the upper state play but your lower state guesses are a bit off.

There's not way Wade Hampton will get the #2 seed....you have to look at strength of schedule and Wade Hampton loses in that department. Hanahan and Waccamaw play much more quality teams and will therefore probably get the #2 and #3 seed respectively with maybe WH getting the 4th seed. Even AJ plays a pretty competitive schedule so they may get in before WH as well.

The thing with Wade Hampton is they have a hard region schedule. Edisto, Barnwell, and Silver Bluff have all been ranked this year and should all be top 8 lower state teams. Hampton has beaten all of them twice. Waccamaw beat AJ, Pendleton, and Hanahan once. Hanahan hasnt done anything except beat Waccamaw once. Strength of schedule is important, but you also must win some of those games as well. Hanahan may end up as a .500 team, with only one quality win to its name. AJ hasnt beaten anyone either. There wins are against bad 1A schools, bad AA schools, bad and mediocre AAA schools, and two wins against AAAA schools who get their wins against those same bad A and AA schools. Atleast with the region with WH, Bwell, SB, and Edisto, you can see how they faired against quality AA teams.

Waccamaw cannot seed higher than Hanahan due to head to head competition so Waccamaw should be #3 and Hanahan #2.

There's no way that your region is stronger than BE, Academic Magnet, and Myrtle Beach,and Pendleton. That's where strength of schedule comes in as a factor. Your record doesn't really mean too much when your playing average teams.....any coach can schedule games to have a good record. Most coaches want good competition.

But you also got to take in the effect that teams like AJ,WH, and Waccamaw consistenly get those higher seeds over the years. so that goes into the deciding too. As far as the scheduling goes.. some teams cannot get those good teams to play them. I know in AJ's case, their are very few teams that are good in the surrounding area. That is a big problem when scheduling comes around. Drave's orininal seedings were pretty correct with hanahan being 5 then barnwell then SB and the upper state prediction is a good one too