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We have completed the 2025 High School Season. We look forward to you joining us when the 2026 season begins in August

2025 Palmetto Sports Network Upstate Team of the Year

SCHSL Reclassification for the 2026 – 2027 season

The South Carolina High School League has taken the first step to reclassify the schools in the state into new groups depending on the size of the student enrollment.

Many teams have had their classification changed as the state has decided to eliminate one of the 5A Classifications.

Over the last few years the largest schools in the state competed in two 5A Classification. Now the largest 40 schools in the state will be in the largest classification.

Proposed South Carolina Re-Classification

The new listing of school size shows Dorman as the largest high school in the state and along with the Cavaliers two other traditional Upstate big schools are among the top 6 size schools in the state

Byrnes has the fourth largest number of students and Boiling Springs is only a couple of hundred students behind as the sixth largest school.

One Upstate team not included among the 40 largest schools in the state is Gaffney. The Indians have dropped from the Division I 5A in recent years to the reformulated 4A Classification.

Proposed 5A Schools

2025 South Carolina Mr. Football Tamarion Watkins Northwestern High School.

Upstate Scoreboard

Our Flagship Station is the most powerful in the Upstate 92.5 WESC

Each week Stan Olenik joins WESC’s morning host Kix Layton to preview the weeks high school football games.

Listen in on Friday morning around 7:45 am each week to get an early look at this week’s action

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SC High School Bracket-ology

The last week of the high school football regular season is in the books and the playoffs begin next week. This is the second year for a system using a new playoff formula for the 5A and 4A brackets.

We visited wtih TL Hanna Athletic Dirctor Tommy Bell who along with a committee, using a formula agreed to last year, is producing the playoff brackets for 5A DI, 5A D2, and 4A. Brackets for 3A,2A and 1A stick to an old bracket.

Coach Bell took some time to explain a little more about how the playoffs are set. You can hear the full interview here

MR FOOTBALL IN SC FINALISTS

South Carolina’s electric cooperatives are the primary sponsors of the Mr. Football award and the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl.

• The South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association organizes the event and selects the state’s Mr. Football recipient.
• Kentavion Anderson, Dorman High School — safety, committed to Clemson University
• J’Zavien Currence, South Pointe High School — safety, committed to the University of South Carolina
• Zyon Guiles, Carvers Bay High School — offensive lineman, committed to the University of South Carolina
• Zamaurious Robertson, Dillon High School — wide receiver, committed to the University of North Carolina
• Tamarion Watkins, Northwestern High School — safety, committed to Texas A&M University

TOUCHSTONE ENERGY BOWL ROSTERS

December 20th Spartanburg 1PM Viking Stadium

2025 SOUTH CAROLINA TEAM

Head Coach Paul Sutherland – Liberty, Assistant Coaches : David Crane – Seneca, Chris Liner – Greenwood, Matthew Love – Byrnes

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