BATON ROUGE – The LHSAA notified high school sports officials the upcoming prep football season will be delayed until October amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

The LHSAA notified schools of an October 8 start for high school football, during a virtual conference Wednesday.

Many schools are scheduled to return to either in-person, virtual or some sort of mix throughout the next week. The traditional high school football season would be starting soon in a regular season. 

If season starts with a best case scenario it would look like this:

Oct. 8 start

6 regular season games

Playoff structure of some games

Dec. 10/11/12 championships#LHSAA

— Michael Cauble (@Cauble) August 5, 2020

Watch WBRZ News 2 at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and 6:30 for late-breaking details. WBRZ News 2 at 10:00 and 10:30 will feature a look into the strange high school season.

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