Vermont will play each of its three state championship football games Saturday at Castleton State College.

After holding the state title games on home fields on separate days for years, the Vermont Principals' Association wisely decided to go with one location this year. It will provide Vermont fans with a Super Saturday of football at one of the state's finest football facilities.

Hopefully New Hampshire will soon follow suit. New Hampshire Football Report has advocated shrinking New Hampshire's six divisions to three. Once that's done, it would be much easier to hold a Super Saturday here, as they do in Vermont and Maine.

Maine has the model New Hampshire should use: three divisions (Class A, B and C) with two leagues in each division. Teams, which are grouped geographically and by enrollment, compete for a regional championship and the winners advance to play in the state championship.

New Hampshire could simply combine Divisions I and II, Divisions III and IV and Divisions V and VI. Arrange the teams geographically to cut down on travel and the work is done.

That setup would allow for an eight-team playoff in each division that could be completed the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It would also remove some of the meaningless non-league games that are currently played. There's no way Merrimack should have faced Nashua North in a non-league contest two weeks ago when each team had a game with playoff implications the following week. 

Even if the championship games remained at home sites, reducing the number of divisions from six to three would be a step in the right direction. It would benefit New Hampshire high school football.