The IHSAA approved the bye week be moved to the first week of the playoffs for Class 6-A, which includes teams from Warsaw and Fort Wayne Carroll. (File photo by Mike Deak)

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA Executive Committee voted to move the bye week in Class 6A football from the week between the semistate and state championship game to the week following the last regular season contest.

All 6A teams now will have Oct. 21 off and first round sectional games will be played Oct. 28. In the first three years of the sixth class the bye week only affected the two teams that play in the state championship game.

“In response to the desires of a majority coaches of 6A football playing schools, the Executive Committee approved a
change to move the bye week for the classification to the initial week of the tournament series,” said Commissioner
Bobby Cox.

Class 6-A houses 32 teams, with Penn the most local from Sectional 2, and Warsaw and Fort Wayne-area teams Carroll, Homestead and Northrop all in Sectional 3.