#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.
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Lorne Plant, Sydney Cariel and Devin Gardner recap the notable games from Week 2 and they'll preview the marquee games going into Week 3.
1:10 - Oxford vs. Groves Recap
2:40 - New Boston Huron vs. Milan Recap
3:33 - Clarkston vs. Southfield A&T Recap
5:40 - Detroit Catholic Central vs. Davison Recap
7:13 - Detroit Country Day vs. Parma Western Recap
7:55 - Andrew Knight - Sterling Heights Stevenson Quarterback
8:18 - Rankings presented by ALTA Equipment Company
9:14 - Walled Lake Western - #10
10:27 - Rockford - #15
11:48 - Warren De La Salle - #1
13:07 - Dexter - #14 14:46 - Mr. Football Award Update
17:17 - DMC GameChangers
18:27 - Anvil Award Update
23:08 - Matchups for the Week
23:37 - Utica Eisenhower at Chippewa Valley
24:31 - Waterford Mott at South Lyon East
26:05 - Clarkston at Rochester Adams - Game of the Week