This is going to sound like an AT&T commercial and it’s going to introduce what I suspect will be an unpopular opinion.

Nerdy guy, surrounded by kids: “What’s better? More or less?”

Kids, in unison: “More!”

Nerdy guy: “Even when you’re talking about the OHSAA football playoffs?”

Me: “No. Absolutely not.”

The Ohio High School Athletic Association added a seventh division in football this season. The goal was to try to alleviate a gap between the largest and smallest Division I programs.

Until this season, each of the state’s six divisions had four regions and each region produced eight playoff teams, so 192 of Ohio’s 715 high school football teams played beyond Week 10.

The old math meant almost 27 percent of Ohio teams made the playoffs. Now, nearly a third of the 715 high school football teams — 224 to be exact — make the playoffs. That’s more than 31 percent.

It doesn’t seem like a huge increase and — I know — the popular sentiment is that we should be all about including more players and teams in the joy of postseason football.

But a seven-division format waters down the playoff product. It won’t be all that apparent the deeper we go into the tournament. It may not be evident at all on the championship weekend — now a three-day event — in Canton and Massillon.

But a lot of teams who will be playing in Week 11 and beyond would have seen their seasons end without playoff berths — and perhaps deservedly so — in previous years.

Sure, a positive development might be that a seventh division will mean another All-Ohio team, so the change will not just be about additional teams playing deep into November and even December. It will ensure that more individual players will be recognized in the annual all-district and all-state selections.

What can be bad about that?

Just like adding more playoff teams, additional postseason honors diminish the impact of being selected to an all-district or all-state team.

In other words, if everyone gets a trophy, how valuable can the trophies be?

Maybe it sounds mean-spirited. Maybe I’m a dinosaur who grew up in a different time, when making the playoffs or being an All-Ohio player meant you and your team really were among the best.

And consider why the format was changed at all. It was supposed to give some of the small Division I teams a better chance to compete for the playoffs.

But a big gap still exists. Ohio’s smallest Division I schools — with around 600 male students — are still half the size of its monolithic programs.

So was the problem actually solved or not?

Write Vindicator sports editor Ed Puskas at epuskas@vindy.com and follow him on Twitter, @edpuskas85.