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 – Volleyball – Boys Soccer
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 per month. Subscribers have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. School Broadcast Program participants benefit as a portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
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.
Weekly Highlights Return to MHSAA TV
August 30, 2016
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
A weekly staple on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube returns this week with highlights of selected games produced last week by members of the Association’s School Broadcast Program.
This week’s highlights package consists of clips from football games between Traverse City West and Midland and Marquette vs. Traverse City St. Francis, and a boys soccer match between Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern and East Lansing.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members, as well as live stats from MHSAA member schools using Digital Scout:
Tuesday (Aug. 30)
- Girls Volleyball – Auburn Hills Avondale at Lake Orion, 5 p.m. - LIVE
Thursday (Sept. 1)
- Boys Soccer – Williamston at East Lansing, 6:30 p.m. (On Demand)
- Football – Negaunee at Calumet, 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Football – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion, 7 p.m. – LIVE VIDEO & STATS
- Football – Marquette at Traverse City Central, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Ewen-Trout Creek at Stephenson, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Detroit University Prep at Adrian Lenawee Christian, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Saginaw Arthur Hill, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – DeWitt at Grand Ledge, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Greenville at Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – North Muskegon at Whitehall, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Manchester at Addison, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Hanover Horton at Michigan Center, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Sanford Meridian at Lake City, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Howard City Tri-County at Stanton Central Montcalm, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Lake Odessa Lakewood at Belding, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Otsego at Sturgis, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Jackson Northwest at Battle Creek Harper Creek, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Hemlock at Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Vassar at Brown City, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Flint Powers Catholic at Saginaw Heritage, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Wyoming tri-Unity Christian at Big Rapids Crossroads Academy, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Bay City Western at Midland, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Harbor Springs at Houghton Lake, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Linden at Goodrich, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Lansing Catholic at Lansing Everett, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Charlotte at Fowlerville, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Mt. Morris at Flint Kearsley, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Midland Dow at Bay City Central, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Lansing Eastern at Lansing Waverly, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Unionville-Sebewaing at Marlette, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Benton Harbor at Grand Rapids South Christian, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Britton-Deerfield at Erie-Mason, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Holland West Ottawa at Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – New Lothrop at Burton Bentley, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – St. Clair Shores Lake Shore at Marysville, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Walled Lake Central at Plymouth, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Garden City at Romulus, 7 p.m. (Stats)
Friday (Sept. 2)
- Football – Birmingham Brother Rice at Mishawaka Penn, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – West Bloomfield at Oxford, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Warren Woods-Tower at St. Clair, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Davison at Mt. Pleasant, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Monroe St. Mary CC at Riverview, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Muskegon Oakridge at Whitehall, 7 p.m. (Stats)
- Football – Detroit Denby at Detroit Osborn, 4 p.m. (Stats)
The NFHS Network has announced new pricing for 2016-17, eliminating the Day Pass and lowering the cost of a Month Pass to $9.95. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. Some schools also will be selling Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
Now in its eighth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.