Football

We’re chewing on a lot of football numbers this week at the MHSAA office with this season’s playoff selection just days away. Some of the most important after Week 8 are 176 – as in the number of 11-player teams that have earned spots in that 256-team ...

Grand Rapids Catholic Central senior Nolan Fugate, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound running back, ran 37 times for 477 yards and five touchdowns in GRCC’s 57-50 win over Comstock Park on Oct. 6.  His rushing yardage ranked fourth-most in MHSAA history for one game and ...

This is the way it’s supposed to finish. With the random ordering or yearly rotating that spits out most league schedules, any week of the regular season might feature the game that ends up deciding those conferences’ championships. But this fall, we’...

John Herrington soon will stand alone as the winningest football coach in Michigan high school history. Herrington, 76, is in his 48th season as head coach at Farmington Hills Harrison. He spent eight seasons as an assistant at North Farmington. He is the only hea...

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.

Be forewarned: There were more incredible and meaningful finishes in Michigan High School football this weekend than meet the parameters of our weekly “Drive for Detroit” report. A pair of incredible winning streaks ended on the west side of the state. Anot...

Week 7 has a couple of contrasting meanings in the grand scheme of Michigan high school football. On one hand, we're drawing to a close of the regular season. On the other, we're just reaching the midpoint of the 14-week drive that carries us through the MHSAA Finals.

For many smaller Class C football teams, losing four starters to injuries during the first six weeks of the season would be devastating.  In Ottawa Lake, however, probably only those close to the Whiteford football program have noticed.

Getting to the postseason wasn’t the issue for the Cassopolis varsity football program, which is currently ranked No. 6 in the latest Associated Press Division 7 poll and has earned playoff berths 11 times since 2000. It was taking that next step.

Sebastian Archer didn’t have to look far to find role models as Montague’s starting quarterback. Pat Collins, Montague’s 14th-year head coach, was the quarterback who first brought the Wildcats to the promised land, culminating a dream season at the P...

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.

New powers continued to rise all over Michigan during Week 6 of the football regular season. A few did so with spectacular upsets, while others broke streaks that had grown to include multiple seasons – or in one case, stretched nearly two decades. The Drive for ...

Starting tonight, the playoff field begins to take shape. Last week, AuGres-Sims – 5-0 but playing only eight games this regular season – clinched the first playoff berth of the 2017 MHSAA Playoffs. This weekend, 63 more teams can qualify for the 11-player ...

Menominee will host Escanaba on Friday in the 121st meeting between two of the Upper Peninsula’s largest high schools and proudest football programs – but with the trophy celebrating the game still missing after it first disappeared more than half a cen...

Three yards and a cloud of dust. That was the highly successful version of football applied by veteran Ohio State coach Woody Hayes as big bruisers dominated the game. It certainly is not the preferred style on the fields of 8-player football. Nope, this version is muc...

Thirty-three years ago, Lynn Sanders graduated from Detroit Central. And before he left, he made a promise. Last year, Sanders showed he is a man of his word.

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.

If there was a theme that emerged across much of the state during Week 5 in Michigan high school football, it boiled down to this: Not so fast.  We’ve passed the midpoint of the regular season, but this week’s Drive for Detroit review saw a number of t...

Big things are ahead in Michigan high school football. Not much will be decided this week as we cruise into the midpoint of the regular season. But teams all over Michigan are setting the foundations to celebrate soon – either as league champions or playoff quali...

Streaks were broken, upsets were hatched, and significant steps toward league titles were taken all over Michigan during a Week 4 full of the unexpected. Click below for the results that popped off the page in every region of our state and on the 8-player scene as ...