- However, the narrow victory over Camden County aside, Maxwell notes that the Packers might be chasing history as much as the 2014 state title. If the season were to end today, their rating would place them in the top 10 highest ratings since 1948 and the third highest outside of the 31602 zip code. However, to secure their position would most likely require nothing short of a championship. All but one of Maxwell's top 30 all-time teams have a state title while the sole exception lost only to another top 30 all-time team in the playoffs.

- Although 32 teams from each of the GHSA's top five classifications received playoff bids this week, many others will be watching from home. Some of them, according to Maxwell, are better than those invited to the dance. Of the non-playoff teams, 27 are ranked among his top 32 in their classification.

Maxwell GHSA Football Ratings

As this season's games are played, the Maxwell Ratings will be based on a modified logistic regression of the current football season's results in combination with each team's historical performance. More recent games and games against similarly rated opponents carry more weight and the weight of each team's historical performance diminishes as the team's season progresses.

The current total weight of all team's historical performance is 0.17%.

For the current season, the ratings accurately account for the winner of 1,864 of 2,056 total games including 4 ties (90.76%) and accurately reflect approximately 68.3% of all game margins within 12.76 points.

The ratings are scaled so that 100.00 is the rating required to win 91.5% of all games in an infinite round robin tournament against all teams in the highest classification. The schedule strength is the rating required to win 50% of all games in an infinite round robin tournament against a particular team's opponents.

All data is courtesy of the Georgia High School Football Historians Association.

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Home Advantage: 0.88

By Class

All-Class

Classification rankings are shown in [brackets]. Each team links to its page at the Georgia High School Football Historians Association. Please submit errors or omissions through their forums.

Regions

Each region is shown with its “Competitive Rating”, which is the rating required to win 80% of all games against the region’s teams in an infinite round robin competition, and its “Average Rating”, which is the rating required to win 50% of all games against the region’s teams in an infinite round robin competition.

Least Likely Results

These are the least likely results of the season using the ratings above. These may change as the season progresses. Each row shows the game data, the difference in the teams after accounting for the home advantage, the expected winning percentage of the favored team, and the likelihood of the on-field result.

Highest Rated Matchups

These are the highest rated matchups of the season using the ratings above. The game rating is the rating required to win 50% of all games in an infinite round robin competition against the expected rating of the loser of the game, which favors games with highly rated and closely matched opponents. These may change as the season progresses. Each row shows the game rating, the game data, the difference in the teams after accounting for the home advantage, and the expected winning percentage of the favored team.