{"id":145265,"date":"2021-08-27T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=145265"},"modified":"2021-08-27T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:52:10","slug":"ohsaa-announces-football-playoff-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/08\/27\/ohsaa-announces-football-playoff-change\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA announces football playoff change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced an important change regarding the 2021 football playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to an increasing number of games being canceled due to COVID-19, the minimum number of rated varsity football games that a school must play has been lowered to five games instead of eight for the 2021 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harbin computer ratings will be used this season and teams must qualify for the playoffs, which will include the top 16 schools in each region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regular-season ends Saturday, October 23 and the playoff qualifiers will be announced Sunday, October 24. The state championship games return to Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton December 2-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced an important change regarding the 2021 football playoffs. Due to an increasing number of games being canceled due to COVID-19, the minimum number of rated varsity football games that a school must play has been lowered to five games instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 20:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}