How does California high school football work?

California is another state in the US. It's played the same gumper

They dont use water bottles :rimshot:

The more divisions the better. You get better matched teams and more champions. Michigan has 8 divisions. That way you are less likely to see teams that are over-matched. Michigan does it based on high school enrollment.

I would like to see classifications based on enrollment and budget devoted to athletics and how many varsity players you have had the past two years in some formula to create more evenly matched teams.

California doesn't have a perfect system in place probably because of the size of the state in general. For decades they just had sectional champions, until the 2006 season when they added the "state bowl game" (basically a north vs south state championship game in 4 divisions). Those state bowl game match ups were picked by the CIF (the high school sports federation in California). Over the next couple of years they added a couple more state games including the Open Division which is suppose to pit the top team from Northern California vs. the top team from Southern California. Many schools complained that their teams were being snubbed from playing in the bowl games. Over the last two seasons they have added a regional championship so more teams can have a shot at the state bowl games. In January the CIF passed a proposal to have 13 state championship games which will start this upcoming season, so now every school in California has a shot at being a state champion.

Da fuq what?

Ohio is similar with 7 divisions, except rankings are all mathematically calculated

In Texas, more divisions = more $$.

So you get some 2-8 teams in the playoffs. Last year an 0-10 team made it.

The cream still rises to the top but Sadly you miss out on some good matchups when you award 14 state champions.