Has any Va HS ever won a football state championship without a winning record?
(Danny, you can't play.)
(Danny, you can't play.)
Has any school?
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Blacksburg? 2016 entered playoffs at 5-5, not a winning record?
You mean final end-of-season record, right?
I think we determined before that Blacksburg and one team in the past had gone on to win state in the playoff era, following 5-5 regular seasons. Unless I'm badly mistaken, I think the state champions in the pre-playoff era were almost always determined by whomever finished undefeated in the regular season. If there were more than one, I think the teams may have, on rare occasion, met in a de facto championship game. Not sure on all that. But I feel certain that no team that won state prior to 1970 (or '71?) would ever have been close to having a losing record.
I think we determined before that Blacksburg and one team in the past had gone on to win state in the playoff era, following 5-5 regular seasons. Unless I'm badly mistaken, I think the state champions in the pre-playoff era were almost always determined by whomever finished undefeated in the regular season. If there were more than one, I think the teams may have, on rare occasion, met in a de facto championship game. Not sure on all that. But I feel certain that no team that won state prior to 1970 (or '71?) would ever have been close to having a losing record.
Both Jonesville '88 and Appalachia '89 won Division 1 following 5-5 regular seasons, in addition to last year's B'burg squad. Both of those two finished 9-5.
LOL Thanks. I'd like to claim that I have all the state champs in all six divisions memorized, but they're all listed in one handy-dandy page on VHSL-Reference.com.
http://www.vhsl-reference.com/statechampslist.cfm
How did Hampton win a state championship in 1988 by only playing 9 games?
The only state champion that ended the season without an overall winning record was EC Glass in 1933.
They finished their season at 4-4.
They finished their season at 4-4.
Where'd you find that info, and how was it determined back then that Glass was state champion?
Spotsy in the middle 90's was either 5-5 or 6-4 and went on to win the state title over Amherst.
I wonder if it's happened ever in any state. I found a few baseball state champions with losing records with a cursory search (2005 Gibonsburg Ohio, 2000 Rossville Indiana, 2002 Manchester Indiana) but no football teams.
http://www.toledoblade.com/HighScho...championship-run-in-2005-made-into-movie.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/HighScho...championship-run-in-2005-made-into-movie.html
1994 was the year Spotsylvania beat what was probably a heavily-favored Amherst County team in the Division 4 final.
I think we are going to have to go to Dr Danny for the answer to this one. It makes no sense, because all other divisions that year played 14 games. And the same for 87 and 88. It must be a mis-print.
It must have just been a misprint. I found that Hampton beat Robinson for the championship in 88 and finished 12-1.
Good deal. Where did you find it. I looked in all of the usual places, but honestly, I didn't google that specific game.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...84a-8879-74f7240fd0d1/?utm_term=.49499a4744a8
Sounded like a heck of a game!
Sure did. Good old fashioned football, including "mud".
It was one hell of a good game. I was there. Eric Hunter was QB'ing for the Crabbers, I feel like he was probably the best pure QB that Hampton has ever had. He had a canon for an arm. Went on to Purdue on a full ride. On a very sad note, he was just murdered in Hampton a couple weeks ago. He was one hell of a good QB though.
Muddy field was an understatement. Todd Stadium was a wreck. Pigs wouldn't have wallowed in that field...LOL
That game was played on a very sloppy field, I was there it was miserable to say the least
I had seen the sad news on this young man. I had not made the connection to this game.
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Simple - they didn't. Obviously missing some games.