HS FOOT: Coin flips have already decided CIF quarterfinal home sites

Once teams get past the first round of the Southern Section football playoffs, home games in the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are awarded to teams that have played the fewest home playoff games. If two opposing teams have played the same number of home games in the playoffs, a coin flip determines the home team.

These days, coin flips are done before the game - way before, actually - for convenience sake. For example, we already know that if Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and second-seeded Mission Viejo both advance Friday, the Knights must play at Mission Viejo in the quarterfinals because Notre Dame has lost the flip.

In the Northern Division, if Westlake and Hart advance, Hart has won the right to host the quarterfinal at College of the Canyons.

The process is different in the City Section. The higher seed automatic gets to be the home team.

-- Gerry Gittelson