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2024 Week 8 playoff tracker: Status, potential seeding for postseason contenders
The Ohio high school football regular season is entering its final stretch. Teams are preparing for Week 8, with only three games remaining until playoff brackets are released. Below is a look at playoff contenders through Week 7, using information from Ohio football websites JoeEitel.com and Fantastic50.net to compile teams’ probabilities for the postseason. For each team in the playoff hunt, we compiled its projected playoff status, highest/lowest potential seeds, and most probable seeding. DIVISION I
State officials want to reinstate drivers ed in schools, starting with grant funding
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) — At a city commission meeting Tuesday night, the Ohio Department of Transportation provided an update on highway patrol’s efforts in Springfield. Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety Andy Wilson was at the meeting with more information on data the city may use when focusing its resources on traffic safety. […]
OHSAA Week 7 Football Computer Rankings
COLUMBUS – The Ohio High School Athletic Association Tuesday released its Week 7 football computer rankings, rankings that are used to decide which teams receive an invitation to play in the 2024 postseason football tournament starting in Week 11. The OHSAA divides the over 600 Ohio high schools that...
Chair of Ohio State human sciences department clarifies questions on health and exercise science accreditation
Front window into the College of Education and Human Ecology, home to the Department of Health and Exercise Science. Credit: Garret Travers | Lantern Reporter. Confusion surrounding the accreditations of Ohio State’s undergraduate health and exercise program has led the College of Education and Human Ecology to respond to concerned students.
Former AD Gene Smith weighs in on decision to cut scholarships for OSU men’s gymnastics
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Gene Smith says the decision to cut scholarships for Ohio State men’s gymnastics is part of a trend happening across the country and the situation is “inevitable.” The former Buckeyes athletics director was in Columbus over the weekend for his induction into the Ohio State athletics Hall of Fame. He weighed […]
Why are there 18 NE Ohio high school football games on Thursday?
CLEVELAND, Ohio — There will be 31 high school football games played Thursday around Ohio, including 18 in Northeast Ohio, mostly in observance of Yom Kippur. The Jewish holiday is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and is considered “a day of atonement,” taking place this year on Friday and Saturday.
Too hot for school: Why Columbus classrooms had to add A/C
Classrooms of today need more cooling during the back-to-school season than in past decades, a new analysis finds.Why it matters: Maintaining a comfortable and healthy learning environment is key to kids' educational success, but that's getting harder due to the warming climate.By the numbers: A Climate Central report found that cooling demand between late July and early September increased 38% in Columbus between 1970-2023.State of play: This is the first school year that all Columbus City Schools teaching spaces are air-conditioned after years of costly upgrades, a spokesperson tells Axios.Previously, students had to attend classes remotely some days due to extreme heat.Building conditions were one of several issues that led to a 2022 teacher's strike.
H.S. Roundup: Bloom-Carroll volleyball clinches third straight Mid-State League title
Here’s a roundup of local high school sports this week, starting with volleyball. Bloom-Carroll 3, Liberty Union 0: The Bulldogs cruised to a 25-12, 25-9, 25-18 Mid-State League-Buckeye Division win to secure at least a share of their third consecutive league championship. B-C improved to 18-1 overall. Evelyn Brown had 21 kills and...
Watch Groveport vs. Pickerington Central in Ohio high school football on NFHS Network
Two teams battling for at least one home game – and maybe a second – in the Division I, Region 3 high school football playoffs face off Friday when Groveport visits Pickerington Central in OCC-Buckeye action. Groveport (4-3, 2-2) has lost consecutive close games, falling 21-14 to Teays Valley and 22-21 to Reynoldsburg. The Cruisers led the former 14-6 entering the fourth quarter and lost the latter on a 24-yard field goal on the game's final play. ...
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