Given the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s tinkering with the postseason football format again, I thought, Maybe they’ll figure out how to put complete brackets on the website. I’m pretty sure this used to happen, even if it was either organized by class or in a text-only style, but a redesign a while back nuked a decade’s worth of links.
The entire postseason with scores and results is here. That’s good — except for the part where the championship scores, as of this writing, have not been inserted. But it doesn’t do any differentiation between home and away, nor does it group the classes together. There are pages with brackets by pod, separated by class (here’s Class A), but the images don’t include the second-round winners in the images, nor do we get a Grand Unified Bracket.
The IGHSAU’s website, although also not great to navigate, does have brackets if you know where to look. That’s what I’m looking for, and for football, well, I guess it’s up to me.
So I made playoff brackets. Here’s a PDF with all classes, and standalone images: 8, A, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A. I did this for 2014 and 2015 as well, but gave up on 2016 and 2017 because I didn’t want to do 32 teams per class again while also not knowing the precise district order of finish.
It’s as quick and dirty as one can do while still providing all pertinent information: RPI, home/away, and the scores.
If you like this, could you drop me an e-mail? (See sidebar.) It doesn’t take that much time, but it does take some, and if other people find this useful I’ll be more inclined to continue.