The MIAA Football Committee meets tomorrow for the first time since the Super Bowls.

A new football playoff proposal will be presented to the 20-member committee by Stoughton coach Greg Burke and Medfield’s Vin Joseph, who represent the Massachusetts Football Coaches Association. The committee can accept the new proposal and forward it to the Tournament Management Committee, or reject it and begin the process of realignment in anticipation of the new alignment that begins for all sports in the fall of 2013.

The new proposal is similar to one that was voted down, 190-114, at the MIAA’s meeting in March 2010. That proposal created six divisions in both the north and south with 16 schools in each, increased the number of playoff teams to eight per division, kept Thanksgiving the same, and used a committee to schedule games. Schools would play eight or nine regular-season games based on their division, then start the playoffs.

The new proposal starts with a league structure, which would be untouched this time. The other issue that hurt in 2010 - geography, with teams having to travel long distances to play opponents - also will be addressed. Other features of the previous proposal, such as six state championships all played at Gillette, remain the same.

If the proposal is passed, it would, as Burke said, “get more kids involved, and just improve high school football.’’

The Merrimack Valley Conference has proposed another way to improve football: Stop having playoff games at Reading, which has hosted a semifinal playoff game the last four years, three against MVC opponents. The MVC has previously requested other sites be considered, but nothing has changed.

The football committee dodged a second issue with the MVC when the conference changed the way it picks its divisional winners. MVC champions will be based on records solely in their division. If there’s a three-way tie, interdivision games count toward breaking the tie.

The potential changes to eight of the leagues south of Boston already have athletic directors frustrated.

Assuming the principals approve the move in April, Quincy and North Quincy will switch in the Patriot League this fall with Quincy moving to the Keenan (Division 2) and North Quincy to the Fisher (Division 3).

Hanover, a member of the Patriot Fisher, is applying for membership to the South Shore League. The Indians, a charter member of the South Shore League, were last in the SSL in 2000, when the Hanover football team went 5-5 in the then-Division 4 league. In 2001, Hanover moved to the combined Patriot League until the league split in two following the 2007 season and Hanover moved to the Patriot Fisher.

Plymouth North and Plymouth South are currently members of the Atlantic Coast League and each is applying to join the Patriot League, as is Marshfield. If Hanover moves to the SSL, and the Plymouths are added to the Patriot along with Marshfield, this would give the Patriot League 12 teams, split between the Fisher and Keenan.

“It’s more natural rivalries for the Plymouth schools,’’ said Plymouth South athletic director and football coach Scott Fry, a 1986 graduate of Plymouth-Carver. “It seemed like a good fit philosophically as well.’’

Marshfield athletic director Lou Silva thinks the move would make sense for the Rams, competitively and financially.

“We want to renew all our old rivalries, as well as for travel costs,’’ said Silva. “We’d go back to playing the teams that we always used to play.’’

Nowhere is the frustration with leagues greater than in the four-member Old Colony League, which had eight schools as recently as 2003. Taunton is leaving to join the Hockomock this fall, leaving Bridgewater-Raynham, Barnstable, and Dartmouth.

B-R explored the idea of joining the Big Three, but there’s no incentive for the Big Three to add just one school.

It gets worse for B-R and the other OCL schools. The MIAA has reluctantly OK’d the existence of the Big Three and probably would have to do the same with a three-school OCL. But the MIAA already has made it clear in a letter to each OCL school that it would frown on a two-team OCL and suggested that any school leaving the OCL would have to make sure the other two have a new league as well.

One obvious solution, merging the ACL and OCL, fell apart last year.

“It’s a mess, that’s all I know,’’ said B-R athletic director Dan Buron, who said he’s also pursuing getting B-R into the Patriot. “I would love to be in a big league, it would be great. I’m frustrated because the OCL eight, nine years ago was a great league and now it’s down to three schools. It doesn’t make sense to me.’’

Barnstable athletic director Steve Francis is also frustrated.

“We’re going to have to suffer through a three-team league next year,’’ said Francis, who is forced by the OCL’s size to schedule games against 90 schools in seven leagues this year. “Seeing Taunton leave is the last injury.’’

And with the frustration spreading, Francis said schools need help.

“I wish the state association took a more active role in this,’’ he said.

Although it’s not the football committee’s job to fix what ails the south, how it plays out could delay and complicate realignment.