The 2-6A Conferences will hammer out the details with scheduling and region placement.

But for now the football teams at least know in which conferences they will play in next season. The initial placements were revealed Wednesday by the Arizona Interscholastic Association and its football reclassification committee.

In previous years, a school’s enrollment dictated where a program was placed. That model is out, replaced by a formula that will likely create more competitive balance within the conferences.

With the help of maxpreps, a rating was assigned to each team based on what they accomplished the past three seasons. Where teams finished in 2019 accounted for 50 percent of their rating (35 percent for 2018, 15 percent for 2017).

The AIA then used a standard deviation model to determine if a team should move up or down a conference or stay put. Once the conferences were set, there was a discussion about assigning teams to three tiers within their conferences.

The teams with the best ratings the past three seasons would be placed in the top tier and schedule only the top or second tier teams. But the football reclassification committee will let the conferences decide if that will happen.

The committee, however, voted to allow cross-conference scheduling to continue. The conferences also will decide if they want to realign after every year or two years.

For region placement, the 2A and 3A reps of the committee were in favor of keeping the same regions.

For 5 and 6A, it appears that regular season region champs will still not earn automatic state qualifying berths. In previous meetings, it was discussed to group 5 and 6A teams in the same regions, but that wasn’t a topic Wednesday.

Since the power ratings, not region placement, determine the state qualifiers in 5 and 6A, grouping 5 and 6A teams together might help with travel concerns and help alleviate cross-conference scheduling conflicts.

Schools can appeal their initial placement. These were the schools that will move into different conferences at least for now:

Centennial, Notre Dame, Williams Field, Casteel, and Higley from 5 to 6A.

Saguaro, Salpointe and Desert Edge from 4 to 5A.

Alhambra (6 to 5A).

Maryvale (6to 5A).

Kofa (6 to 5A).

ALA Queen Creek, Northwest Christian and Benjamin Franklin from 3 to 4A.

Carl Hayden (5 to 4A).

Sierra Linda (5 to 4A).

Round Valley, Thatcher and Phoenix Christian from 2 to 3A.

Dysart and Cortez from 4 to 3A.

Catalina (3 to 2A).

Tuba City, Holbrook, Coronado, Tanque Verde 3 to 2A.