According to a press release from the office of the Southern California Football Association commissioner Jim Sartoris, the SCFA recently voted in favor of restructuring the SCFA into three competitive divisions, beginning in this upcoming 2010 football season. The Allan Hancock College football team will remain in the National Division Northern Conference, along with Bakersfield College, Cerritos College, El Camino College, Ventura College and College of the Canyons.
The SCFA committee used a combination of recent two-year records, a 2009 power ranking formula and geographical considerations to place the 37 member colleges into three separate competitive divisions. The following 4 step process was used to place colleges:
1) The top 12 National Division colleges with the best two-year records were placed in the National Division, The 12 American Division colleges with the poorest two year records were place in the American Division, and the remaining colleges were placed in a new middle division: the Central Division.
2) Within each division, colleges were then ranked by their power-ranking.
3) Within each division, the colleges were separated into two conferences - placement was done by serpentine method, to equally distribute colleges by their power rank.
4) Adjustments were made to the conferences for geographical purposes - to help with travel distances.
The final placement of colleges:
National Division,Southern Conference: Mount San Antonio, Fullerton, Saddleback, Palomar, Grossmont, Pasadena
National Division, Northern Conference: Bakersfield, Hancock, Cerritos, El Camino, Ventura, Canyons
Central Division, West Conference: LA Harbor, Long Beach, Citrus, Antelope Valley, Glendale, Moorpark
Central Divisio, East Conference: Orange Coast, Desert, Chaffey, Golden West, Santa Ana, Southwestern, Riverside
American Conference, Pacific Conference: LA Pierce, LA Valley, Santa Monica, West LA, Santa Barbara, LA Southwest
American Conference, Mountain Conference: Victor Valley, East Los Angeles, San Bernardino Valley, San Diego Mesa, Compton, Mt. San Jacinto
According to the commissioner’s office non-conference scheduling was also discussed. Besides using traditional rivals, the non-conference schedule will include crossovers between division conferences as well as crossover games with other divisions. A draft schedule will be developed by commissioner Sartoris and will most likely be schedule will be available by the end of Feb. 2010, according to the release.
Under the new rules, each conference champion will qualify for a bowl game. The National Northern conference champion and the National Southern conference champion will automatically qualify for the Southern California Regional playoffs, with the next two highest ranked teams in the final CCCFCA/CCCAA poll also qualifying for the four team playoffs. Conference champions in the Central West and Central East conferences will play a bowl game for the Central Division championship. Champions of the American Mountain conference and American Pacific conference will play a bowl game for the American Division championship.
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