#TBT: 600-plus Teams Ready for Kickoff
August 27, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Football teams have represented Michigan high schools for more than a century, beginning long before the MHSAA was formed during the winter of 1924-25.
This weekend, nearly all of the 614 varsity teams scheduled to play this fall will kick off their seasons – and for a fortunate 18, start a journey that will last more than three months through the MHSAA Finals.
This will be the 40th season of the MHSAA football playoffs, which were first played with a much smaller field of teams in 1975. The field expanded to its current 256 11-player teams in 1999, and an 8-player tournament was added in 2011.
The above photo was taking during a 23-0 Muskegon victory over Escanaba during the 1989 Class A playoffs (senior Marcus Longmire celebrates scoring his team's second touchdown). The Big Reds advanced from this Pre-Regional game to face Midland, then Lansing Sexton, and finally Detroit Martin Luther King in the Class A Final – which Muskegon won 16-13.
The Big Reds have won five MHSAA titles total, and also made Finals the last three seasons, finishing runner-up in Division 2 in 2012 and 2013 and last season in Division 3 after falling 7-0 to Orchard Lake St. Mary's.
Unforgettable 5ive: 2022 Football Week 9
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
October 25, 2022
Five unforgettable plays from the final week of the regular season:
► Cole Cabana scores on a 73-yard run in Dexter's 45-0 win over Chelsea.
► CJ Carr hits Caid Fox for the 40-yard score in Saline's 49-21 win over Lake Orion.
► South Lyon East defeated South Lyon 27-21 behind this Nico Campo-to-Drew Moyer 61-yard touchdown.
► Travis Tucker, Jr. scores on a 72-yard touchdown run in Ionia's 36-7 win over Lake Odessa Lakewood.
► Austin Foerster intercepts the pass, sealing Bay City Western's 37-27 win over Bay City Central.