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06-01-2005, 04:21 PM
Ohio, Texas football champions to meet
01:29 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 1, 2005
By BRANDON GEORGE / The Dallas Morning News
The defending big-school football state champion teams from Texas and Ohio will meet in the third week of the high school season as a precursor to the Texas-Ohio State college football game.
Tyler Lee, the 2004 Class 5A Division I Texas state champion, will play at Cincinnati Colerain, the 2004 Class 5A Division I Ohio state champion, in a Friday night game, scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 9 at 22,500-seat Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State will host Texas at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 on ABC-TV at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
Tyler Lee coach Mike Owens said that ESPN would probably broadcast the game. Colerain finished 15-0 last year and No. 5 in the final USA Today 2004 national rankings.
Last season's Denton Ryan-Southlake Carroll game was broadcast live on ESPN2 on Oct. 14. The Ryan-Carroll matchup was the second high school football game ESPN has shown, following the 2003 showdown between national powers Concord, Calif., De La Salle and Shreveport, La., Evangel Christian.
The game between Colerain and Tyler Lee is the inaugural "Kirk Herbstreit Ohio vs. USA Challenge." Herbstreit, the former Ohio State quarterback and current analyst for ESPN's "College GameDay" show, helped originate the Ohio vs. Texas high school idea.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association has a regulation prohibiting live telecasts of Friday night regular-season football games. Negotiations are under way for the OHSAA to grant a waiver that would allow one of the ESPN networks to telecast the game live.
The Ryan-Carroll game, originally scheduled for Oct. 15 (a Friday night), was moved back a day because UIL rules forbid live telecasts of Friday night regular-season games.
Tyler Lee (12-3 last season) will open the 2005 season against another out-of-state team. Lee will play Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade-Madonna, the defending Florida state champion, to open the season at 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 27 to conclude the second annual East Texas Kickoff Classic at Rose Stadium in Tyler. Wylie plays The Colony at 4 p.m. on Aug. 27 as one of three other games involved with the East Texas Kickoff Classic.
01:29 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 1, 2005
By BRANDON GEORGE / The Dallas Morning News
The defending big-school football state champion teams from Texas and Ohio will meet in the third week of the high school season as a precursor to the Texas-Ohio State college football game.
Tyler Lee, the 2004 Class 5A Division I Texas state champion, will play at Cincinnati Colerain, the 2004 Class 5A Division I Ohio state champion, in a Friday night game, scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 9 at 22,500-seat Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State will host Texas at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 on ABC-TV at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
Tyler Lee coach Mike Owens said that ESPN would probably broadcast the game. Colerain finished 15-0 last year and No. 5 in the final USA Today 2004 national rankings.
Last season's Denton Ryan-Southlake Carroll game was broadcast live on ESPN2 on Oct. 14. The Ryan-Carroll matchup was the second high school football game ESPN has shown, following the 2003 showdown between national powers Concord, Calif., De La Salle and Shreveport, La., Evangel Christian.
The game between Colerain and Tyler Lee is the inaugural "Kirk Herbstreit Ohio vs. USA Challenge." Herbstreit, the former Ohio State quarterback and current analyst for ESPN's "College GameDay" show, helped originate the Ohio vs. Texas high school idea.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association has a regulation prohibiting live telecasts of Friday night regular-season football games. Negotiations are under way for the OHSAA to grant a waiver that would allow one of the ESPN networks to telecast the game live.
The Ryan-Carroll game, originally scheduled for Oct. 15 (a Friday night), was moved back a day because UIL rules forbid live telecasts of Friday night regular-season games.
Tyler Lee (12-3 last season) will open the 2005 season against another out-of-state team. Lee will play Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade-Madonna, the defending Florida state champion, to open the season at 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 27 to conclude the second annual East Texas Kickoff Classic at Rose Stadium in Tyler. Wylie plays The Colony at 4 p.m. on Aug. 27 as one of three other games involved with the East Texas Kickoff Classic.