{"id":149890,"date":"2025-06-22T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149890\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:37:30","slug":"key-dates-for-the-2025-ohio-high-school-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149890\/","title":{"rendered":"Key dates for the 2025 Ohio high school football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Ohio high school football season begins August 1 when fall camps across the state open. The regular season begins with a handful of games on Thursday, August 21. Most of the teams will open their 10-game regular season on August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Once again this year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ohsaa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ohio High School Athletic Association<\/a>\u2018s seven state championship games will be played at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the key dates for the 2025 high school football season.<\/p>\n<p>First Practice\u00a0Friday, August 1First GamesThursday, August 21Playoffs BeginFriday, October 31ChampionshipsDecember 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see this year\u2019s playoff schedule. Earlier this month, the OHSAA announced a major change to this year\u2019s playoff format that reduces the number of playoff qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highschoolfootballamerica.com\/ohio-reduces-number-of-teams-that-will-qualify-for-2025-high-school-football-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Ohio changes 2025 playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2025 OHSAA Playoff Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Playoff Qualifiers Announced \u2013 Sunday, October 26<\/p>\n<p>Regional First Round \u2013 Friday, October 31\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regional Quarterfinals\u00a0 \u2013 Friday, November 7\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regional Semifinals \u2013 Friday, November 14\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regional Finals (at neutral sites) \u2013 Friday, November 21\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State Semifinals (at neutral sites) \u2013 Friday, November 28<\/p>\n<p>State Championships \u2013 December 4-6, Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, Canton\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Ohio high school football season begins August 1 when fall camps across the state open. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[27629,7,2682,13585],"class_list":{"0":"post-149890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-2025-high-school-football-schedule","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-high-school-football","11":"tag-ohio-high-school-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114727056084263933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}