Bally Sports Detroit Set to Announce MHSAA Football Playoff Pairings

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

October 19, 2021

The 288 qualifiers for this season’s Michigan High School Athletic Association Football Playoffs will be announced at 5:30 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 24) on the Bally Sports Detroit primary channel.

Brackets and matchups in all eight divisions for 256 11-player teams and 32 qualifiers across two divisions for 8-player football will be presented during the “Selection Sunday Show,” with all brackets to be posted to the MHSAA Website after the completion of the show at 6:30 p.m. Dates and times for first-round games will be added Monday (Oct. 25).

Viewers also may watch on the Bally Sports Detroit website and app. The MHSAA Playoffs in both divisions are set to begin during the weekend of Oct. 29-30. The 8-Player Playoffs will conclude with both Finals on Nov. 20 at Northern Michigan University’s Superior Dome in Marquette. The 11-Player Finals will be played Nov. 26-27 at Ford Field in Detroit.

Lower Peninsula Boys Soccer District Tournaments continue this week with more than 50 games broadcast on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network. Two weeks remain in the volleyball regular season, with a number of key matchups of schools large and small filling a broadcast schedule offering more than 300 matches total this week.

Viewers also will be able to watch more than 175 regular-season football finales on MHSAA.tv this weekend, plus the last of regular-season live broadcasts by Bally Sports Detroit and State Champs! Sports Network. BSD will broadcast live on its primary channel Friday’s Southfield Arts & Technology at River Rouge matchup, with kickoff at 7 p.m. State Champs! Sports Network will broadcast Saturday's second Detroit Catholic League Prep Bowl game between Warren De La Salle Collegiate and Detroit U-D Jesuit at 4:30 p.m. from Ford Field.

See below for links to a number of notable events on MHSAA.tv this week:

BOYS SOCCER
Oct. 19, 5 p.m.: Berkley vs. Detroit U-D Jesuit
Oct. 19, 5 p.m.: Ann Arbor Skyline vs. Saline
Oct. 19, 7 p.m.: Troy vs. Troy Athens

VOLLEYBALL
Oct. 19, 6 p.m.: DeWitt at Okemos
Oct. 19, 7 p.m.: Saline at Ann Arbor Skyline
Oct. 20, 6:45 p.m.: Traverse City West at Cadillac
Oct. 20, 7 p.m.: Frankenmuth at Freeland
Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.: Beaverton at Clare
Oct. 21, 6:55 p.m.: White Lake Lakeland at Rochester Adams
Oct. 21, 7 p.m.: Dexter at Chelsea
Oct. 21, 7:15 p.m.: Marquette at Kingsford
Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.: Unionville-Sebewaing at Cass City
Oct. 23, 9 a.m.: Byron Center at Lowell
Oct. 23, 1 p.m.: Hudsonville at Rockford

FOOTBALL
Oct. 21, 7 p.m.: Bark River-Harris at Ishpeming
Oct. 22, 6:35 p.m.: Lansing Catholic at Pewamo-Westphalia
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Midland at Midland Dow
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Lake Orion at Saline
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Saginaw Heritage at Mount Pleasant
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Grand Ledge at Holt
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Frankenmuth at New Lothrop
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Novi at Livonia Churchill
Oct. 22, 7 p.m.: Hartland at Belleville

Click the links below to see all three sports’ listings in full:

Football VolleyballBoys Soccer

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More than 400 MHSAA member schools are participants in the School Broadcast Program, now in its 13th year, producing games using traditional hands-on student crews or via Pixellot cameras installed at stadiums and gymnasiums across the state. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website. 

Districts to be Decided on MHSAA TV

November 5, 2020

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

Girls Volleyball Districts on the NFHS Network/MHSAA.tv continue with nearly 50 matches coming up online over the next three days.

Here is the District broadcast schedule for the rest of the week:

Thursday - Nov. 5   
Comstock or Kalamazoo Christian vs. Vermontville Maple Valley 5:00 PM
Leland vs. Traverse City Christian 5:30 PM
Birch Run vs. Caro 6:00 PM
Chesaning vs. Saginaw Swan Valley 6:00 PM
DeWitt vs. St. Johns 6:00 PM
Fraser vs. Harrison Twp L'Anse Creuse 6:00 PM
Goodrich vs. Flint Powers Catholic 6:00 PM
Grosse Pointe North vs. Grosse Pointe South 6:00 PM
Hesperia vs. White Cloud 6:00 PM
Manistee vs. Cadillac 6:00 PM
Morley Stanwood vs. Carson City Crystal 6:00 PM
Niles vs. Edwardsburg 6:00 PM
Otisville LakeVille vs. Burton Bentley 6:00 PM
Richmond vs. Macomb Lutheran North 6:00 PM
South Lyon vs. South Lyon East 6:00 PM
Sterling Heights Parkway Christian vs. Marine City Cardinal Mooney 6:00 PM
Unionville-Sebewaing vs. Bad Axe 6:00 PM
Walled Lake Central vs. Walled Lake Western 6:00 PM
Watervliet vs. Niles Brandywine 6:00 PM
Charlevoix vs. St. Ignace 6:15 PM
Brethren vs. Onekama 7:00 PM
Calumet vs. L'Anse 7:00 PM
Clarkston vs. Lake Orion 7:00 PM
Eben Junction Superior Central vs. Rock Mid Peninsula 7:00 PM
Elk Rapids vs. Traverse City St. Francis 7:00 PM
Escanaba vs. Houghton 7:00 PM
Lake Leelanau St. Mary vs. Suttons Bay 7:00 PM
Grosse Ile vs. Flat Rock 7:00 PM
Houghton Lake vs. Beaverton 7:00 PM
Lansing Catholic vs. Williamston 7:00 PM
Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central vs. Ottawa Lake Whiteford 7:00 PM
New Lothrop vs. Saginaw Valley Lutheran 7:00 PM
Peck vs. Dryden 7:00 PM
Portage Northern vs. Portage Central 7:00 PM
Salem vs. Novi 7:00 PM
 
Friday - Nov. 6
Novi Christian vs. Southfield Christian 5:00 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Detroit Country Day 5:30 PM
Brown City vs. Marlette 6:00 PM
Davison vs. Grand Blanc 6:00 PM
Garden City vs. Dearborn Divine Child 6:00 PM
Three Rivers vs. Battle Creek Harper Creek 6:00 PM
Traverse City West vs. Traverse City Central 6:00 PM
Troy Athens vs. Bloomfield Hills Marian 6:00 PM
Center Line vs. Warren Regina 6:30 PM
Plymouth Christian Academy vs. Lutheran Westland 7:00 PM
 
Saturday - Nov. 7   
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Lowell 10:00 AM
Springport vs. Grass Lake 1:00 PM