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1994 · RETURN TO NOVEMBER

Seventeen Years Later

Greenbrier had not appeared in the TSSAA football playoffs since 1977. The 1994 Bobcats changed that.

17years between trips
5–5entering the bracket
Nov. 11official game date
7–20first-round final
The road back

A 3–0 opening, a hard middle and one more Waverly game

Greenbrier opened by beating Montgomery Central 42–0, Macon County 41–7 and Hickman County 31–3. The Bobcats then split the next four, including Derrick Lucas’ six-touchdown night against DeKalb County and a 20–17 loss to Waverly.

The eight-overtime Cat Classic, a Houston County win and the Portland finale left Greenbrier 5–5. The bracket sent the Bobcats back to Waverly four weeks after the regular-season meeting.

TSSAA’s school history fixes the postseason date and final: Nov. 11, 1994, Waverly 20, Greenbrier 7. The contemporary bracket, preview and game report preserve how the return looked as it happened.

Playoff week

Three surviving pages

1994 Class 3A playoff bracket including Greenbrier and Waverly
The Class 3A bracket places Greenbrier back in the postseason.
1994 Greenbrier and Waverly playoff preview
Lucas entered November with 1,324 rushing yards, 27 touchdowns and 166 points.
Waverly 20 Greenbrier 7 playoff report
The first-round report closes the seventeen-year wait.
What followed

The return became a run

Greenbrier went back to the playoffs in 1995 and again under Scott Smith in 1996. Those first three trips opened a sequence of annual postseason appearances that continued through 2005.

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