Cascade Finished 15-0. Indiana Played Six Football Finals in Two Days.

Indiana played six football state finals on Nov. 28 and 29, 2025, all at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The IHSAA tournament page lists a different score for each. Cascade beat Fort Wayne Bishop Luers 29-14 and finished 15-0, the program’s first football title. South Putnam beat Pioneer 55-29 for its first title since 1986.

The other four scores are on that same page. New Palestine beat Merrillville 38-17 and finished 14-0. Andrean beat Brownstown Central 7-0. Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger beat Roncalli 36-29. Brownsburg beat Westfield 38-31 and finished 14-0. Two days, one address, six published results.

The roster behind those brackets is a national count. The NFHS 2025-26 participation summary lists 11-player football at 1,043,716 participants in 14,566 schools, the largest boys sport in the survey. The 2024-25 NFHS release had counted 1,029,588 at 14,269 schools. The newer figure is the next survey. Indiana’s 11-player column in the 2025-26 summary is 314 schools and 20,811 participants. An Indianapolis flag football Saturday is a smaller field. It still needs a kickoff that specific.

Who won Indiana’s 2025 football state titles?

Six schools, six scores, one stadium. Cascade and Brownsburg finished undefeated. Andrean won by a shutout.

• 1A, Nov. 28: South Putnam 55, Pioneer 29. Both teams were 13-2. First South Putnam title since 1986.
• 3A, Nov. 28: Cascade 29, Fort Wayne Bishop Luers 14. Cascade was 15-0. Luers was 9-6.
• 5A, Nov. 28: New Palestine 38, Merrillville 17. New Palestine was 14-0. Second straight title, fifth overall.
• 2A, Nov. 29: Andrean 7, Brownstown Central 0. Andrean was 13-1. Brownstown Central was 14-1.
• 4A, Nov. 29: Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger 36, Roncalli 29. Dwenger was 13-2. Roncalli was 11-4.
• 6A, Nov. 29: Brownsburg 38, Westfield 31. Brownsburg was 14-0. Back-to-back 6A titles.

The IHSAA page also names the site: Lucas Oil Stadium, 500 S. Capitol Avenue. Gates opened at 10 a.m. ET, an hour before the first kickoff, and tickets were $20 per person per day, digital only. Six finals still fit on two public schedules. A rec complex with six games can do the same with a field number.

How did Cascade finish 15-0?

With a 29-14 win over Fort Wayne Bishop Luers on Nov. 28. The IHSAA recap calls it the program’s first football state title.

Mike Beas’s recap says sixth-year coach Connor Simmons’s team had averaged 54.6 points a game coming in, then scored 19 in the first quarter on 197 yards. Senior Dayton Mink rushed for 119 yards, scored from the 2 on the opening drive, and scored again from the 1 with 3:31 left. He also sacked quarterback Thomas Reichert on the last play of the third quarter. Quarterback Brady Trebley threw a 9-yard touchdown to Delton Howrey and ran for a 1-yard score. Halftime was 22-7 after Brogan Trump’s 21-yard field goal. Luers, in its 19th state championship game, got two touchdowns from sophomore TJ Epperson and finished 9-6. Toby Savini led Cascade with 10 tackles. The same recap lists Trebley’s school records: 72 career touchdown passes, a 66.5 percent career completion rate, 32 touchdown passes in one season, and a 71.5 percent completion rate that season. He ranked 10th in a class of 135. Luers got 99 rushing yards from Brandon Gaither and 94 from Epperson. Those lines are why the final reads as a finished game. A rec Friday is finished before kickoff when the assignment has a name, a field, and a clock. A Fort Wayne flag football night does not need 54 points. It needs the field written down before families leave.

What happened in South Putnam’s 55-29 win?

The Eagles scored 55, and the IHSAA recap calls it their first state title in 39 years. Halftime was 14-14.

Anna Kayser’s recap says the third quarter ended with South Putnam outscoring Pioneer 20-0. Running back Ty Benton took five straight carries after halftime, the first for 39 yards. Quarterback Drew Cline finished 8-for-9 for 189 yards and two touchdowns, then returned an interception 47 yards in the fourth. Seven different South Putnam players scored. The Eagles had won the 1986 title and finished runner-up in 2002. Pioneer quarterback Micah Rans, the mental-attitude winner, finished 2-for-7 passing. Both teams left at 13-2. Pioneer owned the opening quarter: more than 10 minutes of possession, 125 yards, and six first downs, while South Putnam managed three rushing yards. The third quarter flipped the yardage. In six minutes of possession apiece, the Eagles had 146 yards to Pioneer’s 28, and 36 points were scored in the fourth. A game that changes after halftime still had one stadium and one published kickoff. A rec director moving a second game to the next field should publish that move before the first whistle.

Which final stayed a shutout?

Andrean’s. The 2A final on Nov. 29 ended 7-0 against Brownstown Central, which came in 14-1.

The tournament page says Andrean was 13-1 and that the defense held a high-scoring Brownstown team without a point. The other Saturday finals were one-score games. Bishop Dwenger beat Roncalli 36-29 after an interception on a potential game-tying score. Brownsburg beat Westfield 38-31 and finished 14-0, a second straight 6A title. On Friday, New Palestine scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns in a 38-17 win, finished 14-0, and took a fifth title. A 7-0 final and a 55-29 final shared a stadium and still kept separate kickoffs. A Carmel flag football jamboree can keep that habit on a smaller field.

How many boys play 11-player high school football?

1,043,716 in the NFHS 2025-26 count, at 14,566 schools. That is the largest boys participation figure in the survey.

The same summary’s state table lists Indiana 11-player football at 314 schools and 20,811 participants, Ohio at 712 schools and 40,302, and Texas at 1,100 schools and 175,759. The survey total for all sports in 2025-26 is 8,415,684. The year before, the NFHS story of Sept. 9, 2025, reported 8,266,244 and 1,029,588 in 11-player football. Girls flag football in the 2025-26 summary is a separate line, 102,360, which is why the Florida flag count and this 15-0 season can both be true. A Dallas flag football complex, a Houston flag football complex, and a Chicago flag football park already feel the Friday pileup. The national number assigns none of those fields.

What should a Friday director copy from Lucas Oil?

The class, the opponent, the site, and the day. A rec game can publish age group, opponent, field, and start before anyone drives.

Lucas Oil held three finals on Friday and three on Saturday. The association posted the address, the gate time, and the ticket price next to the scores. A rec league’s version is shorter: Field 2, 9:00, age group, opponent. The Friday schedule is the message that has to match that line. Put it in the league dashboard before a coach screenshots last week’s pin. Columbus flag football, Cleveland flag football, and Cincinnati flag football families already know what a posted score looks like. They should get a posted field that looks finished.

Which cities should treat six kickoffs as a field problem?

Any city whose Friday or Saturday already stacks more than one game on one complex.

Fort Wayne had Bishop Luers in the 3A final and Bishop Dwenger in the 4A final in the same weekend. Indianapolis had the stadium, and Roncalli was in the 4A final. Brownsburg and Westfield, both in the Indianapolis orbit, played each other for 6A. A rec league in Indianapolis can have the same overlap on a Saturday morning: two age groups, one parking lot, two kickoffs. The Ohio soccer finals showed five matches in one stadium with five scores. Football’s version is six games and two days. Atlanta flag football and Phoenix flag football parks have the same math without a state final attached.

What should a director check before Friday’s first whistle?

Each game needs its own field and start. Six finals in one stadium were still six matches.

• Every age group has a field number, plus the name of the complex.
• A 15-0 age group and a 7-0 age group are separate time slots.
• The gate matches the field, so the family is using this week’s pin.
• Coaches and parents see the same assignment.
• A two-child household can tell which whistle is which.
• If you cite demand, cite the source: IHSAA for the six scores, NFHS for the 1,043,716.

Cascade’s title was a 15-0 season and a 29-14 final. The state wrote both down. A rec league can write the field down. Brands that want to be at that field can sponsor a game. Directors can request a demo. Coaches Pick stays free for league owners, including the home page families already use to find a league.