Mid-Penn Conference at the bottom

Through one round of the District 3 football playoffs, the Mid-Penn Conference is the only league with an overall losing record.

That could be viewed one of two ways. The first is that the MPC qualified the most teams for district play and thus has a wider margin for error. With 17 schools, the conference had five more than the YAIAA, which is second with 12. Berks and the Lancaster-Lebanon League each advanced eight. Millersburg, in Class A, is the lone representative in the District 3 field from the Tri-Valley Conference.

The other way to look at the conference's 7-10 record is to say maybe the other leagues have caught up. In big school play, the MPC was only 5-7 while the L-L was 4-3 and Berks 4-1 - Muhlenberg's 42-7 loss at Cumberland Valley (right) was the lone blemish on Berk's big-school record. The YAIAA finished 2-4.

Overall, the L-L posted the best record from the first round with a 5-3 mark while the YAIAA and Berks each finished at .500. Central York hosts Dallastown on Saturday night in a YAIAA Division I rematch in the 3-AAAA field.

Ultimately, the leagues will be judged by their overall body of work, not just the first round.