Football

Just like that, another MHSAA football regular season is done. But not without hoopla that lasted into the final moments of Week 9. And many of those closing moments are covered in this week's Drive for Detroit.

At the end of Thursday’s practice, another chance at history only 24 hours away, Lansing Everett’s football team met for a players-only “family meeting” in the shadow of Archie Ross Stadium’s high concrete bowl. These brief night-before-g...

After nearly nine weeks of games to get to this point, the MHSAA football brackets will be constructed and released Sunday.  This is a re-publish of an explanation of last season's selection process, and the steps we take in lining up the final five weeks of the s...

Most of this weekend is about numbers for hopeful MHSAA football teams.  There are still a few league titles to determine. Some of those are listed below. But much of the focus is on the 256-team playoff field that will be determined Sunday. As of this morning, 17...

Homecoming is about many things to high school students. But this year it got a whole lot bigger when word got out that Travis Mills, paratrooper of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, was coming home. Vassar High School seniors Alex Leveille and Tyler Langley tell us about h...

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the eighth week of the season.

As the old cliché goes, Week 8 was why they play the games. Sure, some of the weekend’s results could be anticipated. But others – think Detroit Martin Luther King over Cass Tech, Oxford over Oak Park and Bessemer over Crystal Falls Forest Park to m...

One team more than half of the 2010 MHSAA football playoff field has been decided, with 129 teams qualified for the 256-team field with two regular-season games to play. And each of these final weeks includes opportunities for plenty to do something they've never done ...

On any Friday night, history can be made. And two Michigan communities are celebrating football success like never before.  Two weeks ago, Swartz Creek earned its first playoff berth ever, and Grand Rapids Northview did the same in Week 7. Here's more on that big ...

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the seventh week of the season. Schools on this list are in enrollment order.

Two thirds of the MHSAA football regular season are complete. And one tenth of Michigan’s teams are still perfect – at least two for only a few more hours. A total of 59 teams are 6-0, and four are playing each other in two of our most significant clashe...

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the sixth week of the season.

In coachspeak, it's referred to as "sense of urgency." And the numbers back up why that phrase is thrown around frequently when the calendar turns to October.

Time isn't running out yet on the 2012 MHSAA football season. But for those with high aspirations, the time has come to make months of preparation pay off.

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the fifth week of the season.

Fall officially is upon us. And so is the home stretch of another MHSAA football regular season. So far, one team has qualified for the postseason. Another 73 can do so with a victory this week. And that's only part of the excitement, as many still have chances at leag...

Both North Branch football coach Patrick Forster and Birch Run coach Chris Gilliam remember facing Travis Mills when he suited up for the opposing Vassar Vulcans as a talented running back just short of a decade ago.  And that made them more than glad to help out ...

Some of the strongest followings of high school football in this state take place in some of our smallest communities. And some of Michigan's smallest towns should see some of the best games of this week, the midpoint of the 2012 regular season.

Tom Essenburg remembers one night 50 years ago like it was just last Friday. A half-century later, his five interceptions that evening in Holland still stand as the record for one player in one game in MHSAA history. 

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the fourth week of the season.