OHSAA football playoffs reach second round across all seven divisions
The gist
Ohio's high school football playoffs move to regional quarterfinals in all seven divisions on Nov. 6.
Title games return to Canton's Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium Dec. 3-5.
How it unfolded
- Dec 3, 2025 -5, 2026All seven state championship games are scheduled at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, the sixth straight year all title games are played there.
- Oct 23, 2026Greater Akron teams with first-round byes included Highland (9-1), No. 1 in Division II, Region 5, and Walsh Jesuit (7-2), No. 2 in Division II.
- Oct 25, 2026The OHSAA released the first-round playoff schedule; the top 12 teams in each region qualified, the top four seeds got byes, and seeds 5-8 hosted seeds 9-12.
Key terms
- OHSAA
- Governing body for junior and senior high school athletics in the U.S. state of Ohio.
- byes
- A scheduled week when a team or player does not play a match while others do.
- seeds
- A stage in a knockout tournament with sixteen competitors, from which winners advance to the quarter-finals.
Source: Wikipedia