Section · Team Sport
Football
Everything the paper holds for Football: game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.
From the Scorebook
Football Game Reports
No Football reports published yet
A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.
The Season
Season Calendar
Season Calendar · 2026
Football · International Federation of American Football (IFAF)
| Phase | Starts | Ends | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| US high school season | — | — | NFHS lists Football among its sanctioned sports, but the supplied sources do not state a formal season window. A secondary source says U.S. high school football typically runs from late August through November, with playoffs extending into December, and another says most schools start around Labor Day and generally end in November, with some state championship games in December. |
| IFAF world and continental event schedule | — | — | IFAF's event schedule lists Senior Men's World Championship, Senior Women's World Championship, U20 Men's World Championship, Senior Men's and Women's World Flag Football Championships, Continental Flag Football Championships and Continental Tackle Football Championships, but the supplied sources do not state the months or next-edition dates. |
| College Football Playoff, 2025-26 | Dec 19, 2025 | Jan 19, 2026 | The championship game is Monday, January 19, 2026. Future championship dates are January 25, January 24 and January 22 for 2027 through 2029. |
| College Football Playoff National Championship | Jan 19, 2026 | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
IFAF Event Schedule · checked Jul 31, 2026
Not Yet Confirmed
2 parts of the Football year are still unsourced
These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.
- Club, youth and academy
- Club, youth, academy, tryout, camp, showcase and clinic timing for American football are not stated in the supplied authority or new sources — a national federation, state association or club competition calendar would confirm.
- Peak news months
- No authoritative source in the item states peak news months for American football; a secondary high-school source suggests coverage peaks around the fall season and state championships into December, but that is not a formal media-calendar statement — an authoritative source; the supplied high-school sources are secondary would confirm. sportsgeardaily.com · ncsasports.org
Around The Season
- High school
- Football is an NFHS-listed sport, so it is NFHS-sanctioned. The NFHS section map also lists Football under Activities & Sports, and a secondary source says U.S. high school football is a fall sport that typically runs late August through November, with playoffs into December. nfhs.org
- College
- An NCAA championship sport, with the NCAA championships pages listing Football among championship sports and NCAA.com's championship central including Football. The 2025-26 College Football Playoff games run December 19, 2025 to January 19, 2026. ncaa.org
- Olympic and major games
- Flag football was selected as one of the five new sports for the LA 2028 Olympic Summer Games, and IFAF was officially recognized as an Olympic international federation by the IOC in 2023, per a secondary source. The supplied IFAF notes do not state Games-programme status directly, and no Paralympic, Youth Olympic, World Games, Commonwealth Games or Asian Games status is stated. Wikipedia summary of IFAF
- Where results come from
- IFAFIFAF Event ScheduleAmerican Football International
Results data · Published but human-readable only. The supplied IFAF notes name a news section, IFAF World Rankings, Sanction Registry, Calendar, Events and Event Schedule, but do not say the results are machine-readable or centrally downloadable.
Programs
Schools Fielding Football
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- Georgia TechSoutheastern Con. Hockey
- Virginia TechACCHL Premier
- AlabamaAL · SEC
- Alabama A&MAL · SWAC
- Alabama A&M UniversityAL · Southwestern Athletic Conf.
- Alabama StateAL · SWAC
- Alabama State UniversityAL · Southwestern Athletic Conf.
- AuburnAL · Southeast
- Auburn UniversityAL · Southeastern Con. Hockey
- Faulkner UniversityAL
- Huntingdon CollegeAL
- Jacksonville StateAL · OVC
- Jacksonville State UniversityAL · Conference USA
- Miles CollegeAL
- North AlabamaAL · UAC
- SamfordAL · SoCon
- Samford UniversityAL · Southern Conference
- South AlabamaAL · Sun Belt
- Stillman CollegeAL
- Talladega CollegeAL
- The University of AlabamaAL
- TroyAL · Sun Belt
- Troy UniversityAL · Sun Belt Conference
- Tuskegee UniversityAL
Athletes
Public Football Pages
Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.
No public athlete pages in this section yet
An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.
Bylines
Reporting on Football
No filed stories on Football yet
Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.