Welcome back to the first ever playoff edition of The 10 Best Games to See in Ohio. It’s been an exciting season so far, and we have a great slate of games to start the postseason.
Welcome back to the first ever playoff edition of The 10 Best Games to See in Ohio. It’s been an exciting season so far, and we have a great slate of games to start the postseason.
THE 10 BEST GAMES TO SEE IN OHIO - WEEK 10 By Kyle Holsinger Well, we made it to the last week of the regular season, and I’m interested to see who plays who in the playoffs when the Ohio High School Athletic Association announces it on Sunday. There has been some top notch football […]
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.
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 for Heart of Ohio Sports’ third season of The 10 Best Games to See in Ohio.
Based off of feedback from last season, I’m focusing more this season on trying to find games that will be close in score more than ‘premier matchups’. It’s a hard task because you can’t predict the future, but I’m going to give it my best.
Midway through last season, I began to feature a game from each district as an honorable mention selection. The Northwest district’s top pick is featured in our local games so I will add an additional game to the honorable mention due to that this week. That same precedent will continue if and when it happens again.
I can’t wait to get back on the sidelines and watch some football.
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.
Lots of great games this week. A lot of conference titles are up for grabs still throughout the area and state.
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.
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!
