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Baylor, McCallie must answer major questions to maintain hold on DII-AAA

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / McCallie's Xavier Fillion (0) breaks free from visiting Baylor's Jordan Darren Djila and runs for a touchdown during their TSSAA Division II-AAA East Region rivalry game last October.
Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / McCallie's Xavier Fillion (0) breaks free from visiting Baylor's Jordan Darren Djila and runs for a touchdown during their TSSAA Division II-AAA East Region rivalry game last October. Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / McCallie's Xavier Fillion (0) breaks free from visiting Baylor's Jordan Darren Djila and runs for a touchdown during their TSSAA Division II-AAA East Region rivalry game last October.

Very few high school football teams enter the summer without question marks.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press will attempt to identify those areas of concern for each GHSA and TSSAA program in our coverage area.

After kicking off in Northwest Georgia, we continue our classification-based series by moving into Tennessee for part four with a look at the two local teams in TSSAA Division II-AAA: Baylor and McCallie.

DII-AA will be up next in the 11-part series.

As for DII-AAA, the two Chattanooga programs have dominated this classification for the TSSAA’s largest private schools for so long — either Baylor or McCallie has been the state champion the past seven seasons — that other teams in the class have taken drastic measures in an attempt to close the gap.