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Memtb: Yes 6 man football is alive and well in Montana also.
I have been to several of those type games - interesting and fun for the young men, and the fans, parents.
We have a six man football team (school) here in the county I live in, here in SW Montana.
Football is VERY, VERY important to the communities hereabouts.
I am glad the "Miners" scored some points there in the state championship game.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
P.S.: You didn't happen to see a lot of players and fans taking a knee during the Anthem did you?

Our deer lease was in Coleman county. We went to a few Panther Creek games. Six man is a wild game.

In September of 1998, in an effort to provide the opportunity to play high school football for those in districts with very low enrollment, Iowa allowed for 8-man football. Six schools fielded 8-man teams. As time passed, the good intentions of the state fell short when they set the enrollment bar far too high for qualification as an 8-man team. Rather than honoring the intention of the class to allow participation by students in districts unable to field 11-man squads, far too many districts saw it as a way to "become competitive" (read as: achieve greater success), which has resulted in districts that are fully capable of fielding competitive 11-man teams instead fielding 8-man teams and running all over the very teams that the class was intended to benefit. The horse is out of the barn and it looks like the only viable solution is to split the 8-man class into two classes, with much more stringent enrollment requirements to qualify for the smaller of the two.

Isn’t this based on enrollment, I wouldn’t think a school above the enrollment max for 8 man could play 8 man football.

Six man is Class A in Texas 55 to 105 in high school. If a school gets above the 105 threshold they go to 2A which is 11 man football. They don’t have a choice.

I probably expressed myself poorly. There is a cut-off that a school must be below. The problem is that they set the enrollment number far too high, with the result that there was a stampede of schools to play 8-man who have plenty of players to play 11-man. They only saw an opportunity to be successful by beating up on the schools that the 8-man class was originally intended to benefit rather than switching to 8-man out of necessity.

Ok. I understand now. The classifications have changed through the years here. When I went in late 60’s, we had 6 man, class B, 1A,2A,3A,4A. Now 1A is 6 man, 1A up through 6A, plus you have a small and large division in each classification. I think 3 teams in the small and large division go to playoffs from each district. It’s like everybody makes the playoffs. When I went only one team from each district made the playoffs. A three way tie was decided by a coin flip.