After the COVID-19 pandemic kept some Tennessee high school basketball teams from having a chance to be crowned state champions earlier this year, coaches and players are showing appreciation for any time they have together.

While some Georgia regions that include local schools gained clarity concerning the upcoming GHSA football playoffs last week, two leagues remain quite murky heading into this week's regular-season finales.

All four games involving area teams are rematches either from earlier this season or from last year's postseason.

The number 77 is cherished by the Red Bank High School football program.

Balanced scoring helped McCallie come out on top.

Legendary former East Ridge High School coach and administrator Catherine Neely, known to the thousands of girls who played for her simply as "Mama Cat," died early Wednesday morning after a lengthy illness. She was 78.

Five Chattanooga-area players have been named finalists for the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football award in their respective classifications.

Jason Reuter says he looks for perfection out of his Bradley Central girls' basketball team.

One of the best seasons in the history of McMinn County's football program came to an end Monday evening not on the field but through a decision handed down by the TSSAA.

With an entire defense focused elsewhere, Logan Carroll proved he is not the type player to be overlooked. As Hampton keyed on stopping Meigs County star running back Will Meadows, a Mr. Football semifinalist, Carroll stepped in to kick-start the Tigers offense in Friday's Class 2A second-round win.

The McMinn County football team's second-round playoff game at Dobyns-Bennett was postponed Friday due to a COVID-19 issue that will not be resolved before Monday, TSSAA executive director Bernard Childress told the Times Free Press.

Moments after Red Bank quarterback Joseph Blackmon polished off a 10-play, 79-yard drive with a 33-yard touchdown run that put the finishing touches on the Lions' 31-12 win over Brainerd in the second round of the TSSAA playoffs Friday night, a Lions assistant coach greeted every offensive lineman with the same five words:

The Meigs County High School football team used a patient, balanced attack to get by Hampton in the TSSAA Class 2A playoffs Friday night.

The only adjustment made at halftime was attitude.

Both Calhoun and Ringgold had much to gain with wins Friday night. When the final horns sounded, however, a pair of losses left one of those football teams facing a tougher path to the GHSA playoffs and the other still fighting to get in.

"I love you, man."

Rhea County started this football season 9-0, with plenty of success due to an offense that during that stretch helped the Golden Eagles score at least 20 points in every on-field victory, produce 40-plus three times and churn out a season-high 66 in late October.

Chattanooga-area high school football game results as they happen.

Javon Burke had been more of a role player in Bradley Central's offense in recent seasons, which might have caused some people to underestimate just what he was capable of on the football field.

The news was barely a half-hour old, hardly enough time for the reality to sink in, when Sam Hall decided he needed to express his feelings.

Walker Valley has set records for wins (eight), points allowed per game (13) and shutout wins (three), and the Mustangs' season isn't over yet.

Baylor and McCallie are set to step back on the football field this weekend as eight Division II-AAA teams join the TSSAA playoffs.

As difficult as it has been to keep Georgia high school football teams on the field this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in some cases it's proving just as tricky to get a read on the upcoming GHSA playoffs.