The NCAA Bowl Championship Series — comprised of its various polls and computer rankings — is now a thing of the past, but an equally confusing postseason selection algorithm is still alive and well in Georgia. While the top five classifications in GHSA fill out their playoff brackets by taking the top four teams from each of eight regions, Class A — now divided into public and private sub-classifications — is in its third season of selecting the 16 teams for each state playoff bracket via a power poll that doesn’t consider regions. Even as coaches and athletic directors have become a bit more comfortable with figuring out the complicated ratings system, there are so many balls up in the air until the final scores from the last week of the season are posted that it is nearly impossible to tell where a team will land until the final poll comes out.