The Channel League is a high school athletic conference in California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section .
11-642: In April 2019, during the biennial releaguing process in the Northern Area of the CIF Southern Section , administrators from member schools approved a proposal to create an association with the Pacific View League in the sport of football only. The association, composed of the 12 schools from the two leagues combined, assigns each school to one of the leagues, with promotion and relegation taking place every two years. The plan
22-525: A division is always guaranteed a playoff spot and guaranteed a higher seeding in the playoffs. Divisions are usually based on geography, both to minimise travel costs and to encourage regional rivalries. Divisions are not always static. Sometimes a team may relocate to a new city, and as a result the division may become geographically skewed. For instance, when the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL became
33-636: A series of team relocations had created geographically skewed divisions. Sometimes a sport will favor old division rivalries over geographical consistency. The rivalries the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL maintain with the teams of the eastern seaboard, especially the Washington Commanders , meant they were kept in an eastern division after realignment, even though they are geographically dissimilar to their division rivals. In college sports ,
44-621: The Winnipeg Jets in 2011, they would have been a team from a northwestern city playing in the Southeast Division, but the NHL chose not to realign at this time, leading to lengthy road trips for the Jets and the other teams in their division. Also, divisions need to be roughly equal in size to ensure that each team has an equal chance of becoming division champion. When a league introduces new teams in new markets, placing them in
55-696: The early 2020s . Each of the four realignment periods below was driven mainly by one or a few conferences: List of college athletic conferences In college athletics in the United States , institutions typically join in conferences for regular play under different governing bodies. There are several national and regional associations governing the varsity teams of colleges and universities . Varsity teams are typically funded by an institution's athletic department, and under some governing bodies players are eligible for athletic scholarships . This list also includes conferences in sports that
66-657: The division best suited to their geography may result in more teams in that division, so realignment is necessary. The 1969 baseball realignment coincided with the addition of four teams, whereas its 1994 realignment creating extra divisions in both the American League and the National League came a year after the league added the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins . The National Football League realigned to its current eight-division format after
77-421: The following sports: Realignment (sports) In North American sports, realignment or releaguing refers to a major change in the competitive structure of one or more existing leagues. The mechanics differ somewhat between amateur and professional sports. In professional sports, this occurs when a league decides to change which teams are in which divisions , usually by creating new divisions. In all of
88-422: The four major North American sports leagues , all of the teams are grouped into one of two conferences (or leagues in baseball) while each conference/league is further subdivided into divisions. Teams in the same division play each other more regularly than teams in the same conference, and much more often than teams in the other conference. Teams from the same division can form intense rivalries. The top team from
99-593: The merging of the Channel League with the Pacific View League , beginning with the 2022–23 academic year. For the 2024–25 academic year, the Northern Area reorganized its constituent leagues again, creating a five-league tiered system of promotion and relegation for football, whereby the league membership of each tier will be reviewed every two years. Marmonte League (1st tier) Conejo Coast League (2nd) Channel League (3rd) Tri-County League (4th) Citrus Coast League (5th) The Channel League sponsors
110-455: The term "realignment" is used to refer to a situation in which large numbers of schools switch their conference affiliation in a short period of time. Especially in the top level of college sports, NCAA Division I , several schools change their affiliations in one or more sports every year. However, the term is usually reserved for situations which affect large numbers of conferences—most notably in 1996 , 2005 , 2010–2014 , and most recently
121-526: Was originally scheduled to begin in the 2020–21 school year. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed its implementation, as the 2020 football season was postponed and shortened; upon the return of sports in early 2021, health officials in Ventura County prohibited schools there from playing teams in adjacent counties (this restriction was later lifted). In May 2021, another round of realignment saw
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