Make sure to fill out your Alabama state football brackets in pencil – they could change by tomorrow.
Over the past two weeks, the Alabama High School Athletic Association has made five schools forfeit contests for violating state rules. The latest is
Clay-Chalkville (Pinson, Ala.), the third-ranked team in Class 6A, the state's top classification. Clay-Chalkville, ranked No. 86 nationally by MaxPreps, will forfeit all nine of its victories and miss the state playoffs, pending a 10 a.m. appeal Friday.
According to the
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Clay-Chalkville used an ineligible player who was in violation of state transfer rules.
"Clay-Chalkville is in violation of that rule," AHSAA executive director Steve Savarese told the newspaper, referring to an association rule that a transferring player must have made a bona fide move into the new school's enrollment area, as well as left the previous school in good standing.
The nine forfeits by Clay-Chalkville brings the statewide total to 24 for using ineligible players. Also forfeiting games according to the report are
Wetumpka (Ala.),
Johnson (Huntsville, Ala.),
Sumter County (York, Ala.) and
Randolph County (Wedowee, Ala.).
