Most recent semifinal appearances for remaining 32 teams

Making their first semifinals this week will be Telfair County, which started football in 1967, and Bryan County, which started in 1976. But the football program that has played the most seasons since a semifinal is Perry, which made the Class B semis in 1959 under a coach named Herb St. John, a former Georgia All-American and NFL player who is in the University of Georgia’s Circle of Honor (2004). These are the seasons of the most recent semifinal for each of the 32 teams.

First - Bryan County, Telfair County

1959 - Perry

1988 - Douglas County

1997 - Manchester

2007 - Cook, Thomas County Central

2009 - Camden County

2018 - Rockmart, Savannah Christian, Stockbridge

2019 - Starr's Mill, Woodward Academy

2020 - Calvary Day, Coffee, Jefferson, Marist

2021 - Brooks County, Carver (Columbus), Creekside, Grayson, Pierce County, Walton

2022 - Benedictine, Bowdon, Cartersville, Cedar Grove, Fitzgerald, Milton, Prince Avenue Christian, Schley County, Swainsboro