I decided to review the 100 closest games by point spread on Drew Pasteur’s Fantastic 50 website. I also added a couple games into the respective honorable mention districts due to out-of-state opponents being featured. My apologies for having this out a little late. I’ve been ‘under the weather’ for a while now.
My apologies for getting the article out late this week. The spreadsheet that I use to compile all of the data—which will be known as The Database—is being reworked to help me make these articles and properly rank these teams.
I think I’ve got closer to getting better picks for the games. I’ve listened to all of the feedback since last season.
Thanks for coming back for our fifth installment in the series. Thanks for all of the feedback and input.
Last season in Division V, I only corrected guessed Liberty Center to win Region 18, but did pick them to win it all (which they did).
THE TOP PREP TEAMS TO WATCH IN OHIO IN 2026 By Kyle Holsinger Thanks for reading our fourth installment in the seven article series. Last season, I picked three-of-four correctly in Division IV and I picked Glenville to win it all. One of the better performances in any division. DIVISION IV REGION 13: CLEVELAND GLENVILLE […]
Thanks for coming back, and I wanted to add that I really appreciate you all taking the time to give me your feedback. This is the second season that we've done this preview, and each year I want to get closer to picking them all correct. Here we go...
Welcome back everyone for the beginning of the 2026 high school football season. I’m excited to get back on the sidelines to cover some games in the coming weeks.
During the season, I do not make any picks or predictions publicly in case I end up getting sent to cover that game on short notice. That being said, the following series of articles are my preseason predictions to win all 28 regions, and my picks for state champions in each of the seven divisions in OHSAA 11-man football this season. There will be seven articles—one for every OHSAA division.
Welcome back everyone! Thanks again to Drew Pasteur's Fantastic 50, Joe Eitel, MaxPreps, 247sports, OhioHSHelmts, and many others who make this article possible. Thanks to Nate Mullins of Heart of Ohio Sports for allowing me a platform to write this article each week. Finally, thank YOU for reading. I'm considering doing a playoff edition next week, but we'll see who all gets in locally.
So, I dialed back competitiveness to 33.3% with rankings, combined wins, and top recruits to 22.2% each. We’ll see how this week turns out. My sources for the data and information used to compile the game list is JoeEitel.com, fantastic50.net, 247sports.com, and maxpreps.com along with individual school or league websites. Also, the honorable mention for the state games will now be one game per district to try to feature at least one game from each district in the state.
Welcome back for week five of the season. We’ve had some great games so far, and it’s been really tough again to put these lists together with so many quality matchups to choose from.
My apologies for getting this article out a few hours later than usual. The first three weeks of the season, I use some metrics from last season’s teams until enough data has built up to properly judge this year’s version of each respective school’s team. Starting this week, that switches and there’s a lot of work that goes into that switch. That being said, next week may come out on Tuesday as well, but then it will be back to the regular Monday publishing.
