The state high school football coaches association made its pitch to the MIAA Thursday for a 10-game regular season that keeps Thanksgiving games as part of the playoff qualifying process.

The football proposal has been kicking around for a few years, and previous suggestions that implementing it would delay the start of winter sports by a week or two generated a lot of ill will.

The MIAA Football Committee took the first step in hopes of convincing the state it had a better playoff proposal. Football Committee chairman Jay Costa and ... is an 11-game sample size as ...

FRANKLIN — It’s a new proposal with the same old concerns. A plan that would reshape and extend the high school football season was formally presented to the Massachusetts Interscholastic ...

Yes, despite playing in the most powerful conference in college football, Vanderbilt only averaged a reported 37,000 viewers per game in 2021, coming in behind Wyoming at No. 106.

The MIAA Football Committee plans on spread the word of Steve Dembowski’s playoff plan to administrators, athletics directors and coaches around the state.

Since 2021, teams ranked between No. 9 and No. 16 in the statewide football tournament have only won 35 games out of 360. But one of those teams won a state title.

Thanksgiving football games have a lot of sentimental value, but when it comes to the game’s impact on a team’s power rating or playoff seeding, it has no value at all.