MHSAA Football Finals 2026: Ford Field Schedule for Nov. 27-28

The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) lists its 2026 11-player football finals at Ford Field in Detroit on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and 28, with four games each day starting at 9:30 a.m. ET and ending with a 7 p.m. ET game. The two 8-player finals are earlier, on Nov. 21 at the Superior Dome in Marquette. The table below gives every game by division and time, with Central Time for the western Upper Peninsula, and the champions from 2025 follow it.

What time are the MHSAA football finals at Ford Field?

MHSAA’s football page lists the 11-player games by division. Ford Field’s own events page shows “MHSAA Football Finals” on 11/27 and 11/28. The page gives the times in Eastern Time (ET). Menominee, Iron Mountain and the rest of the western Upper Peninsula are on Central Time (CT), one hour earlier, so the CT column is our subtraction of one hour.

Day	Division	Game time (ET)	Game time (CT)	Teams
Fri., Nov. 27	D8	9:30 a.m.	8:30 a.m.	Not yet decided
Fri., Nov. 27	D4	12:30 p.m.	11:30 a.m.	Not yet decided
Fri., Nov. 27	D6	4 p.m.	3 p.m.	Not yet decided
Fri., Nov. 27	D2	7 p.m.	6 p.m.	Not yet decided
Sat., Nov. 28	D7	9:30 a.m.	8:30 a.m.	Not yet decided
Sat., Nov. 28	D3	12:30 p.m.	11:30 a.m.	Not yet decided
Sat., Nov. 28	D5	4 p.m.	3 p.m.	Not yet decided
Sat., Nov. 28	D1	7 p.m.	6 p.m.	Not yet decided

Matchups come out of the Nov. 21 semifinals, so no team is a finalist yet. The Detroit Lions’ 2026 schedule has them hosting Chicago on Thursday, Nov. 26, at 1 p.m. (CBS), the day before the first Finals games, according to the team’s site. For Thanksgiving week games, see our Thanksgiving football schedule, and the Thanksgiving date page confirms the holiday is Nov. 26.

When are the 8-player finals?

MHSAA’s page names the Superior Dome in Marquette, on the Northern Michigan University campus, for the 8-player finals. Its schedule and sidebar list Saturday, Nov. 21: Division 1 at 11 a.m. ET and Division 2 at 2 p.m. ET (10 a.m. and 1 p.m. CT). One block on the same page says “Nov. 22”, which is a Sunday, so the Nov. 21 date that the page states twice is the one used here.

What is the road to the finals?

Format	Round	Dates
11-player	Districts	Oct. 30-Nov. 7
11-player	Regionals	Nov. 13-14
11-player	Semifinals	Nov. 21
11-player	Finals	Nov. 27-28
8-player	Regionals	Oct. 30-Nov. 7
8-player	Semifinals	Nov. 14
8-player	Finals	Nov. 21

The 11-player semifinals and the 8-player finals share Saturday, Nov. 21, per MHSAA’s sidebar.

How to watch the MHSAA football finals

MHSAA says all games will be shown live on the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Network and archived on MHSAA.tv shortly after they end. Live audio of the Finals is at MHSAANetwork.com. The page names no other TV channel.

Who won the MHSAA football finals in 2025?

The 2025 11-player finals were played on Friday, Nov. 28 and Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025; the 2026 schedule has no Sunday. MHSAA’s Dec. 3, 2025 review gives these results.

Division	2025 champion	Runner-up
D1	Detroit Catholic Central 42	Detroit Cass Tech 19
D2	Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 51	Dexter 14
D3	DeWitt 54	Mount Pleasant 20
D4	Dearborn Divine Child 23	Hudsonville Unity Christian 22
D5	Grand Rapids West Catholic 42	Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 14
D6	Jackson Lumen Christi 28	Kingsley 15
D7	Menominee 34	Schoolcraft 6
D8	Harbor Beach 31	Hudson 20
8-player D1	Martin 52	Blanchard Montabella 8
8-player D2	Portland St. Patrick 53	Felch North Dickinson 0

Tickets and parking for Ford Field

MHSAA has not announced 2026 prices in the pages read, and it links Ticketmaster for Friday and Saturday. In 2025, tickets were $20 for all four games in one day, at the door or online through Ticketmaster, parking was $8 and the gates were A, D and G, according to MHSAA’s Nov. 24, 2025 release.

Free MHSAA finals printable

The one-page schedule lists all ten games with ET and CT times, and it has blank lines for the matchups once the semifinals are over. Mark the dates on the November 2026 printable calendar. Our state-by-state list of high school football championships covers the other states’ final dates.