Welcome back, everyone! There was substantially fewer games to select from this week. I pick games that have a spread of 8 points or fewer on Drew Pasteur’s Fantastic 50 website. I have some new teams featured, but also ran into numerous teams for whom I couldn’t find stats.
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.
