The Class 6A football state championship bracket will look a little different in the 2024-25 season.

On Monday, the executive board of the Oregon School Activities Association met to discuss multiple items. Perhaps one of the biggest was making a small adjustment to the structure of the Class 6A football brackets.

Class 6A will remain broken up into the state championship bracket and the Columbia Cup bracket.

The state championship bracket will consist of 12 teams: the six league champions and the next six teams in the OSAA computer rankings at the freeze date.

The Columbia Cup will be made up of the next 16 teams in the computer rankings, adjusting as every league in the state is allotted a certain number of playoff berths.

The biggest change is that the total number of teams has been lowered. Class 6A team state championship brackets are usually made up of 32 teams, but that number is being lowered to 28. The decrease comes as Class 6A football is looking at having just 42 teams in the 2024 fall season as Aloha, Glencoe and Roseburg will be playing in Class 5A.

OSAA assistant executive director Kris Welch noted that having 32 teams making the playoffs out of 42 total is too many.

Another change to the bracket is that not all league champions will be able to host a first round game. The change from a 16-team bracket to a 12-team bracket in the championship side means that the top four seeds get a first round bye.

The OSAA executive board had three options to choose from on Monday. The first option was to maintain the status quo: two 16-team brackets (one for the state championship and one for the Columbia Cup) with all league champions hosting a first round game.

The third option was to do away with the Columbia Cup and have Class 6A switch to one 24-team playoff bracket.

Welch mentioned that the coaches of Class 6A were surveyed and there was not a consensus on which option was the most popular. The OSAA’s football ad hoc committee recommended the option that the executive board voted on.

This was the final meeting of the executive board this school year. The board will meet next in late July at its summer workshop in Redmond from July 22-24.