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The Coaches Association pushed for it to go from 8 to 12 teams after 2019 season. Then covid hit (2020). 2020 everyone who wanted in got in. The OHSAA decided to take the coaches association proposal, but remove the bye week proposed for teams #1-#4 and made it 16 teams per region instead of the pro...

The question was answered correctly early in this thread. Last year in Region 11, Tri-Valley was the #3 seed and lost to #13 seed Bellefontaine (they had a stud sophomore running back who was hurt the second half of the regular season and played in week 11) 20-13 on a last minute TD. #6 Western Brow...

Sheridan should beat Philo. Maysville - John Glenn probably the best game of the night. Loser is pretty much eliminated from playoffs. I think Maysville wins close. Tri-Valley wins big. New Lex beats Morgan in a high scoring affair. Coshocton gets first win over a 1 win Meadowbrook team. West M hang...

Big School Division
Philo at Sheridan
Maysville at John Glenn
River View at Tri-Valley

Small School Division
New Lexington at Morgan
Meadowbrook at Coshocton
West Muskingum at Crooksville

Having seen New Lex and Morgan play the last two weekends, I completely agree this is the best the two schools have been in several years. Expect it to be high scoring. Morgan struggles defending the pass, but I think Morgan will be able to run the ball on New Lex. New Lex should score in the 40s an...

River View improved from recent years. Sheridan winning but not blowing teams away. I think Sheridan is still too strong and wins this game. 4-1 New Lex should beat winless Coshocton convincingly. Philo should win big over Crooksville. John Glenn will beat Meadowbrook. Best game of the night should ...

Big School Division
River View at Sheridan

Small School Division
New Lex at Coshocton

Cross Division games
Philo at Crooksville
John Glenn at Meadowbrook
Maysville at West M
Morgan at Tri-Valley

Bellefontaine is one of the top teams in the region. Pretty much the whole team back from last year. Obviously Granville is for real. As a fan of a region 11 team, hoping not to see either of them week 11 or 12.

Final Tri-Valley 23 New Lex 12 New Lex dominated the first half. Tri-Valley's first half TV happened a minute into the game. Intercepted a tipped pass at the 25 on the first play of the game and ran it back to the 1. TV scored next play. Halftime NL 12-7. Second half TV defense was in control. Offen...

Final

Tri-Valley 23
New Lex 12

New Lex 12
Tri-Valley 7

Half

Philo 14
West M 14

New Lex 12
Tri-Valley 7
half

New Lex had an undefeated 8th grade team last year. Tri-Valley went winless at the 7th grade level the past two years. Taking the best of three grades of players, Tri-Valley should still be pretty decent imo. I think the Tri-Valley and New Lex game will be a toss up the next few years.

Mydogskippy,
It is common for leagues with two divisions to have mandatory crossover games.

Plus, Crooksville would likely play their rival Philo and neighbor Maysville even if it wasn't their crossover games. Keep in mind that football revenue has to financially support a school's athletics.

So ranking the MVL schools by size (2018 numbers used for fall 2020 to spring 2024), here is who teams play: 1 Tri-Valley plays 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 2 Sheridan plays 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 3 John Glenn plays 1,2,4,5,6,9,10 (scheduled 8) 4 River View plays 1,2,3,5,6,9,10 (scheduled 7,12) 5 Maysville plays 1,2,3,4,6,...

Part 1 Two-thirds of the schools in the MVL were content with the 9 team or 10 team one league set up. One or two non-league games to find. So the small schools were playing 5 big schools (based on 5 of 6 in big school division were in 9 team MVL) yearly with the old set up. The one-third that prefe...

MVL addition of Meadowbrook and others has only been two years (this is start of third), but it sure felt like Meadowbrook has been beating up on MVL small division teams for longer. Meadowbrook is back to the pack in football. Will be in other sports also over the next couple years. I don't get Phi...

I believe 2005 or 2006 was the last time New Lex beat Tri-Valley. I'm sure New Lex has a big lead in series record because Tri-Valley didn't beat them very often between 1966-2005. Looking at scores, game highlights, etc, these two teams could very well be the best two teams in the MVL this season r...

Crossover games are the two largest in each division (Tri-Valley, Sheridan vs Morgan, New Lex) the two middle in each division (John Glenn, River View vs Meadowbrook, Coshocton) and the two smallest in each division (Philo, Maysville vs West M, Crooksville). No fear of Crooksville playing Tri-Valley...

NL by 2 TDs.

West M beat New Lex last year for the first time in over a decade. NL is a much better team this year and West M has a key player injuried.