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The 2015 CIAC Football Playoff teams, broken down by league and location. (Graphic by Sean Patrick Bowley – Click for larger view)
So you want to be a state champion, eh?
Let’s see how you navigate through three rounds against the best football team this state has to offer.
Welcome To The Gauntlet.
Thirty-two teams enter the state quarterfinals tonight at the higher seeds.
Sixteen teams will leave and head for Monday’s state semifinals. The higher remaining seeds will host those games. The winner of two games gets a ticket to the state championship games at sites and times to be announced December 12.
There’s no rest for the weary. Every mistake will be amplified. The hopes and dreams of your team will hang on every moment.
No pressure.
Who are are lucky contestants? Who are the favorites and who are the underdogs? Who do WE expect to win?
Luckily, we have it all covered for you here at State Championship Central. Accept no substitutes. We’ll tell you what to look for when read through our previews of all 16 quarterfinal games and pick who you think will advance to the next round.
Follow the live blog below from updates by our staff, not to mention all of the other fine reporters across Connecticut.
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PRIMER
PRIMER- The CIAC Playoffs In A Nutshell
- The GameTimeCT / Register Top 10
- Preview Capsules: CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S
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BROADCAST LINKS
BROADCAST LINKS- CLASS LL: Staples at Darien, 6:30 — WWPT 90.3-FM
- CLASS L: New Canaan at Windsor, 6:30 — TV: CPTVSports | Online: NFHS Network (subscription required)
- CLASS L: Notre Dame-WH at Harding, 6:30 — Online: NFHS Network (subscription required)
- CLASS L: Middletown at North Haven, 6:30 — WELI 960-AM (radio)
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These games are a JOKE. We need the Disttict model!
Staples gains 7 yards of total offense in the first half vs. the vaunted Darien defense. 34 – 0 Darien and the starters are pulled.
Trinity up 40 – 0 on Granby
NC 14 – 6 over Windsor at the moment. Should be 21 – 0 if that first half TD holds. Cognetta is injured it seems.
SJ is disappointing… Can’t win ’em all.
Also believe Evanchick had 3 sacks in the first half.
SJ was overated all year and finally played in a different conference and got exposed. The days of former AD Jim Olyas’s scholarships for recruits are long gone and St Joes is going to be just another average small school football team. GO HOGS!
Glastonbury this, Glastonbury that. BEN THE HITMAN MASON GETS IT DONE.
New Canaan rolling Windsor on the road. Ground and pound. The road to the Class L title runs through New Canaan, Connecticut!
28 to 0 with 7minn to play in the first qt, the road looks like it has to detour through
NH,over 550 yards 0f offense with out throwing a pass,that speaks for it self just think what it will be when Mike Montano airs it out.
What did you think was going to happen playing a JV team from the CCC?
Montano may run a 10k through NC
Good luck. Didn’t score a point last time NH played NC.
“I wish we played better,” Windsor coach Rob Fleeting said. “We just got handled on the line. We could not get our running game going, could’t pass protect as the game went along. We just couldn’t handle them up front.”
2 years ago a gallon of gas was higher,the mets did not make
the playoffs etc…the 23 seniors are now soph in upper education
when NH played their hearts out!! against NC. I agree NC is the elite in class L 4 YEARS!!! However this year this veery talented team and the tireless talented coaching staff are in a zone. ND or NC in the state title game against NH WILLBE GREAT FOOTBALL 4 ALL OF US TO WATCH
SWC / ECC Challenge on Monday Night Football.
What happened to all those athletes on Glastonbury and Windsor? They were supposed to smoke Newtown, and Windsor had way too many athletes for New Canaan. Lol.
The only question now is does Glastonbury continue rising in the NH Registers state poll like they did when they lost to Southington.
and the question after this week will be does ND remain in the top ten with 3 losses, after it gets routed by NC.
Newtown, New Fairfield and Brookfield should all be in Mondays top ten poll, if not then the Register has lost all credibility. The SWC really made fools of a lot of poll voters and gametime bloggers tonight.
The only reason you can put Brookfield in the top 10 is because they beat New Fairfield. My poll for next week would put Brookfield @ 11…. and I’m a Brookfield fan/’07 graduate
Right…
NF plays the sixth best team in the fciac and wants top ten. What a bunch of fools we are.
Brookfield does not belong in the top 10. They simply are not as good as Newtown and NF. Remember the NF/Brookfield game was week 1. Two totally different teams now. I’d say NF gets the edge over Newtown because NF has looked better overall and beat Newtown.
The Register poll is the state media poll that is comprised of sportswriters around the state. I don’t see why The Register itself should lose any credibility. Nonsense.
What we can conclude at this point is that REAL football exists in the southern-half of the state.
Eleven of 16 remaining teams are from NH/FFld counties alone…25% of the state makes up about 70% of the bracket. Interesting…
Vs. Non-conference opponents, so far:
SCC 3-0
ECC 1-0
SWC 3-1
FCIAC 3-1
NVL 2-1
CCC 1-3
PEQ 0-2
CSC 0-3