THE 10 BEST GAMES TO SEE IN OHIO - WEEK EIGHT By Kyle Holsinger Welcome back, readers! I opened up the selection of games to a wider range than an eight-point spread. This week, I tried to consider the top 100 closest point spreads on Drew Pasteur’s Fantastic 50 website. I hope that can make […]
Welcome back, y’all! Most teams are getting into their conference play, and we’re starting to see teams develop and grow from the first week of the season.
For the first three weeks, I use teams win-loss record from last season as a factor to decide which games to pick so this is the first time this year that this year’s win-loss count has been factored.
Welcome back and thanks for reading! With all the data needed to write these articles, there is not a realistic way to write these particular articles by Monday. The 10 Best Games to See in Ohio will be a Wednesday release from now on.
Let’s get right to it. We got some exciting games this week…
Thank you all for reading this year's series of Heart of Ohio Sports Prep Pigskin Preview. Please check in on Mondays during the season when we release our weekly The 10 Best Games to See in Ohio. The article features my picks for the five best local and five best games around the state of Ohio to watch that weekend.
I only correctly picked Columbus Grove to win a region last year in Division VII. Here we go...
We are 50 days out from the kickoff of the 2026 OHSAA high school football season, and I’m back with a ‘way too early’ preview of the local landscape. The first game in the area will be Leipsic traveling to Heidelberg University’s Hoernemann Stadium to face Calvert on Thursday, August 20.
The 2025-26 school year is coming to a close, and congratulations to every graduate.
Over here at Heart of Ohio Sports, the crew has began to get restless for next fall to arrive. If you’re like us and have an early hankering for high school football then here’s a preview of 25-plus local players to look out for on the gridiron come August.
Are you and your coworkers wondering who is still in the playoffs locally, and where they play this weekend? Well, we have you covered.
I read your comments and tweaked the analytics a bit. Now, the metrics are 40% competitiveness, 20% rankings, 20% combined wins, and 20% college prospects. I personally think watching some D-I prospects balling out makes for a great game—even if the game doesn’t end up close. If games ending with slim point differential is your preference then I’ll give y’all what you want. Enjoy!
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.
We’re already to week three of the season, and we’ve seen some great football so far. I wanted to let the reader know that over the last couple seasons that I’ve wrestled with how to properly rank out-of-state opponents for matchups. I’ve also wrestled with ranking them in the top five of the state or just keeping them as honorable mention.
