Suburban League National Conference Football Predictions

BY TOMMY MAROON

If you’re keeping track at home ladies and gentlemen, we have 77 days to go before the first Friday night of the 2026 OHSAA season.

That’s also 11 weeks.

So applaud everyone. Before you know it, there’ll be packed houses throughout Northeast Ohio hoping for their school to come through with a win. To celebrate, I will, for the next ten weeks, rattle off some predictions for high school football teams around the area. Without any delay, let’s jump into it. First for the new look Suburban League and the National Conference in alphabetical order:

Highland Hornets (7-3, 5-2)

1. vs. Walsh Jesuit (L)
2. at Strongsville (W)
3. vs. Avon Lake (W)
4. vs. Nordonia (W)
5. at Medina (L)
6. at Stow (W)
7. at North Royalton (W)
8. vs. Solon (W)
9. vs. Wadsworth (L)
10. at Hudson (W)

Hudson Explorers (6-4, 4-3)

1. at Austintown-Fitch (L)
2. at Jackson (W)
3. vs. St. Vincent-St. Mary (W)
4. vs. North Royalton (W)
5. at Nordonia (L)
6. at Solon (W)
7. vs. Medina (W)
8. at Wadsworth (L)
9. vs. Stow (W)
10. vs. Highland (L)

Medina Battling Bees (5-5, 3-4)

1. at Findlay (L)
2. vs. Hoover (W)
3. at Brunswick (W)
4. vs. Stow (W)
5. vs. Highland (W)
6. at Wadsworth (L)
7. at Hudson (L)
8. vs. North Royalton (L)
9. at Nordonia (L)
10. vs. Solon (W)

Nordonia Knights (7-3, 5-2)

1. at St. Vincent-St. Mary (W)
2. vs. East (W)
3. vs. Villa Angela-St. Joseph (L)
4. at Highland (L)
5. vs. Hudson (W)
6. vs. North Royalton (W)
7. at Solon (W)
8. at Stow (W)
9. vs. Medina (W)
10. at Wadsworth (L)

North Royalton Bears (3-7, 2-5)

1. vs. Valley Forge (W)
2. vs. Brecksville (L)
3. at North Ridgeville (L)
4. at Hudson (L)
5. vs. Wadsworth (L)
6. at Nordonia (L)
7. vs. Highland (L)
8. at Medina (W)
9. at Solon (W)
10. vs. Stow (L)

Solon Comets (2-8, 0-7)

1. vs. Kenston (L)
2. vs. Shaker Heights (W)
3. at Twinsburg (W)
4. at Wadsworth (L)
5. at Stow (L)
6. vs. Hudson (L)
7. vs. Nordonia (L)
8. at Highland (L)
9. vs. North Royalton (L)
10. at Medina (L)

Stow-Munroe Falls Bulldogs (4-6, 2-5)

1. at Aurora (L)
2. vs. Barberton (W)
3. at St. Francis Prep (NY) (W)
4. at Medina (L)
5. vs. Solon (W)
6. vs. Highland (L)
7. vs. Wadsworth (L)
8. vs. Nordonia (L)
9. at Hudson (L)
10. vs. North Royalton (W)

Wadsworth Grizzlies (9-1, 7-0)

1. at Cleveland Heights (W)
2. at Hilliard Davidson (L)
3. at Jackson (W)
4. vs. Solon (W)
5. at North Royalton (W)
6. vs. Medina (W)
7. at Stow (W)
8. vs. Hudson (W)
9. at Highland (W)
10. vs. Nordonia (W)