Jordan Bell and Hall are one of 32 teams pursuing a football state championship. MaxPreps photo by David Newman
Some facts, notes, quotes and tidbits from the 2013 CIAC football playoffs, which start on Tuesday:
• The Fairfield County Conference has just one team in the Class LL playoffs, Ridgefield at the No. 8 seed. That’s the first time that has happened since the CIAC added the quarterfinal round in 2010.
• In Class LL, the FCIAC has had nine qualifiers in the four years of the new format, but the Central Connecticut Conference has actually had the most at 11, placing three teams in three of the four years. Neither conference has produced a champion in the new setup. Xavier, from the Southern Connecticut Conference, has won all three titles since 2010. That, of course, ends this year as the Falcons failed to qualify.
• This is No. 1 seed Newtown’s third trip to the playoffs in four years, but the Nighthawks (12-0) haven’t moved past the semifinals in the new format. The program has reached the title game twice, 1978 and ’80, in Class L, and won it three times in MM in 1981, ’90 and ’92.
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