High School Football

All Saturday state high school football championship games postponed

The bad weather has postponed all four of Saturday's state high school football championship games.

The Georgia High School Association announced that Saturday's first two games were postponed on Friday evening. At that point, the other two games, Marist vs. Blessed Trinity and Colquitt County vs. North Gwinnett, would still be played. That is no longer the case. Around 10:30 Saturday morning, the association decided that all four of Saturday's games would be postponed.

Two games Friday afternoon were postponed. The Rome vs. Warner Robins game for the 5A state title and the Lee County vs. Coffee County game for the 6A state title scheduled were postponed

That means six of the eight state championship games scheduled for this weekend at Mercedes-Benz Stadium did not get played.

The GHSA will push the postponed games back a week, to Dec. 15 and 16. As it stands now, the higher seeded teams would host the state championship game. In instances where the teams are seeded the same, there would be a coin flip. North Gwinnett would host Colquitt for the 7A title and Lee County would host Coffee for the 6A title.Warner Robins and Rome are both one seeds. The GHSA has already conducted that coin toss. Warner Robins won it and would host the 5A state championship game. In 4A, Marist would host Blessed Trinity. Rabun County won the coin toss with Hapeville Charter and would host, Irwin County would host Clinch County in the A champinship game.

On Friday, ELCA beat Athens Academy 41-3 for the Class A private school title and Calhoun defeated Peach County 10-6 for the 3A title.