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Football season is here! Almost. The Regular Season of High School Football in Ohio kicks off on August 29, and ends on November 2.

In this podcast:
- Buckeye Valley jumps to the Mid-State League
- No more football for Rosecrans
- Division Re-Alignments
- Week 8; High School Football vs. THE Ohio State Buckeyes
- "Every Game is a Road Game, including the Home Games" - Bishops Watterson and Ready
- The NEW Golden Era in Bexley

Link to Central Ohio Schedules, Week by Week: https://www.thisweeknews.com/sports/20190820/friday-night-live-2019-cent...

THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Games on CW Columbus: http://cwcolumbus.com/sports/content/2019-thursday-night-lights-schedule...
August 29 - Centennial (City League North) at Grandview Heights (MSL Ohio)
Sept. 5 - Walnut Ridge (City League South) at Pataskala Watkins Memorial (Licking County League BIG)
Sept. 12 - Johnstown (LCL Small) at Newark Licking Valley (LCL Big?)
Sept. 19 - Bloom-Carroll at Hamilton Township (MSL Cardinal)
Sept. 26 - Logan at Chillicothe (SE Ohio League)
Oct. 3 - Bishop Ready at Gahanna Columbus Academy (MSL Ohio)
Oct. 10 - Columbus Independence at Marion-Franklin (City League South)
Oct. 17 - Westerville Central at Olentangy Orange (OCC Buckeye)
Oct. 24 - Worthington Kilbourne at Hilliard Bradley (OCC Cardinal)
Oct. 31 (Season Finale) - Columbus St. Francis DeSales at Bishop Hartley (CCL)

10 Weeks of High School Football have been played. And it's time for the Postseason to begin. 224 Schools. 28 Brackets. Seven Champions. The Road to the Shoe begins for 224 High School Football Teams on Friday and Saturday in the State of Ohio.

LOCAL PLAYOFF TEAMS:
DIVISION I -
Region 2: Olentangy Liberty, Dublin Jerome, Olentangy, Olentangy Orange
Region 3: Hilliard Bradley, Pickerington Central, Dublin Coffman, Hilliard Davidson, Springfield, Pickerington North, Lancaster

DIVISION II -
Region 7: New Albany, Franklin Heights, Licking Heights, Columbus West, Dublin Scioto

DIVISION III -
Region 11: DeSales, Bexley, Hamilton Township, Eastmoor Academy, Beechcroft, Chillicothe, Whitehall, Thornville Sheridan

DIVISION IV -
Region 14: Jonathan Alder, Bishop Hartley, River Valley
Region 15: Heath, Johnstown-Monroe, Bloom-Carroll
Region 16: Chillicothe Union-Scioto (Unioto)

DIVISION V -
Region 18: Columbus Academy, Marion Pleasant
Region 19: Liberty Union, Chillicothe Zane Trace

DIVISION VI -
Region 23: Newark Catholic, Centerburg, Bishop Ready

DIVISION VII -
Region 27: Danville, Harvest Prep, Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans

- Columbus City (West, Eastmoor, Beechcroft), Dublin City (Coffman, Scioto, Jerome), and Olentangy Local (Olentangy, Liberty, Orange) School Districts each have THREE schools in the playoffs; Pickerington (Central, North) and Hilliard (Bradley, Davidson) have TWO schools in the playoffs; The Diocese of Columbus is repped by DeSales, Hartley, and Ready (CCL), Newark Catholic (Licking County League), and Rosecrans
- West High School opened in 1908. This is the first time in the school's history, that they have reached the football playoffs. Hilliard Bradley is making their first playoff trip since the school opened in 2009.
- Franklin Heights reaches the playoffs for the first time since 1989.

Bob interviews members of the Ohio Roller Girls team

Tonight on the show, a look back at the last 12 months of the show with the Best of the show talking about Networking, talking about Politics, talking about Sports, talking about Columbus's Bicentennial, and talking with Biff and Raff.

KEY EVENTS mentioned in tonight's how:
- Volunteer UA Expo (Wednesday from 10-8PM; Upper Arlington Main Library on Tremont Rd., opposite the Tremont Center)
- Earth Day Columbus (Worksites- Saturday & Sunday and Celebration on April 27; http://earthdaycolumbus.org)
- Harmony Project Volunteer Week (April 21-27 along Livingston Avenue Streetcar District corridor between Parsons & Nelson; http://www.harmonyproject.com)
- Ohio Young Professionals Weekend (April 26 @ Gateway Film Center & April 27 starting at Columbus Commons; Multi-Group Mixer also April 26, but @ Kildare's Irish Pub at South Campus Gateway; http://www.ohioyoungprofessionalsweekend.com)

And...The State of the Show Address (which was left off the cutting room floor of tonight's show): http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com/post/48096944518/the-djbc-happy-hour-st...

- When The DJBC Happy Hour Facebook Page gets to 200 likes, the theme(s) for the February 3 & 17, 2014 weeks will be revealed.