The new IHSA football playoff parameters would have included seven additional teams from the Springfield area, including two ...

The Illinois High School Association member schools approved 12 amendment proposals, including a football playoff expansion, ...

The Illinois High School Association approved 12 amendment proposals on Tuesday, with one of the proposals expanding the ...

Moving forward, there will be 384 teams that make the playoffs instead of 256. The number of classes will not change, so each ...

There are a million ways to write a column about IHSA playoff football expansion. The easiest ways are to either bash the ...

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Among the other proposals passed were the establishment of a “no contact week” in the summer, the ability for ...

The playoff expansion likely will allow all football teams with three or four wins in the nine-game regular season to make the playoffs. Previously, all five-win and some four-win teams made the field ...

It’s December and athletic directors and high school football coaches are still trying to sort out the new meaning of the ...

IHSA expands football playoffs to 384 teams in 2026, eliminates Week 0 and moves Week 1 up, forcing ADs to redo cross-state ...

IHSA member schools approved an expansion of the football playoffs to 48 teams per class, part of 12 by-law amendments passed ...

The change adds 16 schools to the brackets of each of the eight classes, determined by student enrollment, that make up the ...