The Illinois High School Association presents:

The 1995 Class 6A Football Playoffs

Well, it's over. The last second has ticked off the clock at Hancock Staduim, and mighty everyone's-#1 Naperville Central didn't win State. They lost 22-21 to the third-place team from their own conference, Wheaton-Warrenville South. Congratulations to Coach John Thorne and the Tigers on their first Class 6A title, and best wishes to Tim Lavery, Jim Tumilty, Rocky O'Shea, and most of the rest of the Redhawk players in the aftermath of what was their dream season, batted down in the south end zone.
This year the folks in Bloomington seeded the 32 teams in 6A, with four seeds each #1-#8, then bracketed the teams accordingly, putting one of each seed in each quarter-bracket. The eventual champions drew a #6 seed, but they did only finish third in the DuPage Valley Conference, having lost at home to both Naperville North and Naperville Central.
Here is how it all came down: the complete bracket and results for the teams involved in this year's 6A scramble:

First-round games:  27-28 October
	Second-round games:  03-04 November
		Quarterfinals:  10-11 November
			Semifinals:  17-18 November
				IHSA State Final:  25 November, 2:30 pm
						   Hancock Stadium, Normal, Illinois


#6 Lincoln-Way (7-2)		03
	Naperville North		45
#3 Naperville North (8-1)	33
		Naperville North		12
#7 Lake Forest (6-3)		42
	Lake Forest			20
#2 Chicago Vocational (9-0)	14
			Naperville Central		41
#5 Downers Grove South (8-1)	23
	Downers Grove South		21
#4 Fremd (8-1)			15
		Naperville Central		35
#8 Hinsdale Central (5-4)	19
	Naperville Central		40
#1 Naperville Central (9-0)	21
				Naperville Central		21
#6 Hinsdale South (7-2)		16
	Schaumburg			13
#3 Schaumburg (8-1)		26
		Sandburg			00
#7 Thornton (6-3)		14
	Sandburg			20
#2 Sandburg (9-0)		21
			Romeoville			21
#5 Brother Rice (7-2)		22
	Romeoville			36
#4 Romeoville (8-1)		33
		Romeoville			22
#8 Moline (6-3)			08
	Pekin				34
#1 Pekin (9-0)			48
					Wheaton-Warrenville South, Class 6A State Champion
#6 Clemente (7-2)		00
	Lake Park			06
#3 Lake Park (8-1)		48
		New Trier			00
#7 Waukegan (6-3)		00
	New Trier			18
#2 New Trier (8-1)		12
			York				07
#5 Elgin Larkin (7-2)		07
	York				21
#4 York (7-2)			28
		York				06
#8 Young (6-3)			06
	Stevenson			14
#1 Stevenson (9-0)		48
				Wheaton-Warrenville South	22
#6 Wheaton-Warrenville South (7-2) 28
	Wheaton-Warrenville South	21
#3 Saint Charles (8-1)		07
		Wheaton-Warrenville South	28
#7 Libertyville (6-3)		06
	Palatine			18
#2 Palatine (8-1)		12
			Wheaton-Warrenville South	29
#5 Dunbar (7-2)			18
	Evanston			25
#4 Evanston (7-2)		30
		Glenbrook South			21
#8 Curie (6-3)			00
	Glenbrook South			27
#1 Glenbrook South (9-0)	34

Same old IHSA rules for home team: the team that has hosted a game less recently in the current playoffs is the home team; in case of a tie, the higher-seeded team is the home team. (So Palatine was at Wheaton-Warrenville South, but Sandburg hosted Schaumburg.)

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