Let the games begin
The 2026 high school football season starts tonight. We’ve got previews of games from around the suburbs, Kevin Schmit wraps up his series on the countdown to prep football, and we start our Friday look at five top games you don’t want to miss.
Kevin Schmit’s column
Five games to watch
Week 1 previews
Daily Herald preseason Top 20
Mike McGraw’s Chicagoland Top 25
There’s plenty more going on this fall with high school sports. Here’s our boys soccer and golf season previews, and look for girls volleyball, girls flag football and boys and girls cross country, and more previews coming soon.