The Florida High School Athletic Association’s 13-member board of directors is once again tasked with putting their stamp on a plan to realign football teams for the 2026 and 2027 seasons in a meeting at FHSAA headquarters today in Gainesville.

Just like in 2022, when the vote was a tight 9-7 to approve a momentous football-only metro-suburban split for two years, and in 2024, when that experiment was shot down by a 9-4 vote by a new-look committee, the board has its hands full.

Based on reaction by a number of coaches to a proposal voiced by FHSAA executive director Craig Damon on Wednesday, their will be debate.

Damon’s proposal called for reducing the number of traditional championship classifications to six – down from the current eight. There will a seventh championship brack

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