What if Stanislaus County had a football tournament

Modesto Christian 25.9 Oakdale 18.7 Gregori 11.9 Denair 11.4 Modesto 9.2 Big Valley -9.1-x Davis -7.3 This week a couple of coworkers and I were discussing the topic of "What if there was a Stanislaus County high school football tournament?" The reality is this year that the conversation begins and ends with Central Catholic, but it was more particularly, "How would Denair do?" Denair won the Sac-Joaquin Section, Division VII championship and defeated Santee High School of Los Angeles for the California state Division 7-AA championship. Could Denair do well against the "big boys"? Barring a miracle, Central Catholic would win the championship; but who would get second? That would depend on how the bracket is situated. My idea is to have a sixteen team tournament. To allow everyone to participate, I would have the top 10 teams to qualify directly and the other 12 to play qualification games for six spots. One change I would make is I would allow all league winners to qualify (but not section winners). In the tournament, I would allow teams of the same league to play qualification games, but not in the first round of the tournament. Like the Sac-Joaquin Section, I would use calpreps.com ratings to rank the teams. Teams who would directly qualify (in alphabetical order) (*=league winner) Big Valley*, Central Catholic*, Denair, Downey, Gregori, Modesto, Modesto Christian, Oakdale, Pitman, Turlock*, Qualification (Matchups would have a different way to have matchups each year if my idea actually happened. For this year, it would be by geography. The higher rated team would be the home team.) Qualification Matchups Orestimba @ Patterson Turlock Christian @ Hughson Riverbank @ Waterford Johansen @ Davis Beyer @ Enochs Ceres @ Central Valley I think all home teams would win. Tournament (16) Central Valley (CCC) @ (1) Central Catholic (VOL) (9) Modesto (CCAL) @ (8) Denair (SL) (12) Enochs (CCAL) @ (5) Modesto Christian (TVL) (13) Waterford (SL) @ (4) Downey (CCAL) (11) Hughson (TVL) @ (6) Oakdale (VOL) (14) Davis (WAC) @ (3) Pitman (CCAL) (10) Patterson (CCC) @ (7) Gregori (CCAL) (15) Big Valley (CCAA) @ (2) Turlock (CCAL) My predicted 2nd round (9) Modesto @ (1) Central Catholic (5) Modesto Christian @ (4) Downey (6) Oakdale @ (3) Pitman (10) Patterson @ (2) Turlock Semifinals (5) Modesto Christian @ (1) Central Catholic (3) Pitman @ (2) Turlock Finals (2) Turlock @ (1) Central Catholic Winner Central Catholic