Saturday was perhaps the most controversial day of the high school football season — section seeding day, when teams find out where they rank in their section and who their first-round opponent will be.
A few years ago, many sections decided to avoid the controversy that goes along with the traditional coach-voting process and adopted the QRF (Quality Results Formula), a system that ranks teams according to the quality of a team's opponents and how they fared against them.
The QRF can be extremely helpful in settling differences by taking subjectivity out of the equation but it falls short when subjectivity is needed (road vs. home victories, injuries, etc.).
Regardless of how it happens, seeds are always worthy of speculation and interest as matchups become apparent. Let's look at a few of the section football pairings that hold the most interest.
Class 6A
The 6A seedings were set up differently than in 2014. The brackets will not change as they did in 2014, when teams we reseeded before the state tournament.
The four sections seeded their teams 1 through 8 (only one chose to use QRF. The others had section coaches vote). Prior to the seeding process, six brackets were drawn up, matching high seeds vs. lower seeds in various manners using just the seeding number. Once the section seedings were determined, a bracket was selected, also at random, and the corresponding teams were filled in.
Some highlights:
• The top seeds were Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Lakeville North and East Ridge.
