Petal High School football
Petal is one of the largest schools in Mississippi.
Coming soon
Mississippi is coming to Hometown Line
You’re in the right place, and the whole site is open to you. We only show scores a state’s association lets us read and credit, and Mississippi’s aren’t readable yet. Here’s how Petal gets on, and how to play in the meantime.
Play this Friday anyway
Every game on the board is open to you, in any state. Call the week’s biggest games, or follow a state next door.
Getting Petal on the site
Mississippi isn’t published yet. The MHSAA publishes each week's schedule and we read it; it does not publish scores itself, so Mississippi finals come from people in the stands.
In the meantime, a coach, athletic director or team manager can put a school’s season on the site through the Team Desk, and the letter below still asks them to publish.
Start a league for Petal families
Parents, alumni, the bleachers: everyone picks Petal’s games and the schools around them, and Saturday’s table settles who knows best. Free, about a minute, one link to the group chat.
Start a Petal leagueThe Petal School District is a public school district based in Petal, Mississippi (USA). In 1976, the Petal Schools District was formed after the community decided that it wanted the local school system to be separate from the county school system.
From the school’s Wikipedia article, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
What is on record
- Wherereal
- Mississippi
- A real programme in a real place.
- Sizereal
- one of the largest schools in its state
- Roughly 2,225-4,000 students. A band, not a figure — the exact number is not something this project knows.
- Classificationa label
- 6A
- How its own state labels that size. Ladders differ between states, so this is for display; the model uses the size band.
- Groupingthis site's
- Region 1 (MS)
- This site's grouping, built by region so travel and rivalry look plausible. It is not the state association's alignment and will not match a real bracket.
- Foundedreal
- 1976
- Typereal
- Public
- Coloursreal
- Red & White
The programme
- Notable alumni
- 9 in all, 6 of them in football
- Counted from the school’s own article, which lists people notable enough to have been written up. A programme with none has not produced none.
Everything above comes from Petal’s own article — except the few lines that name a different one — and is real. Hometown Line also runs a scoring model over Mississippi high school football. Every prediction it makes is the model’s own. Where Mississippi publishes a schedule the site may read, the games ahead are that schedule; where it does not, the fixtures ahead are generated so the model has something to predict. A result is shown only where its source is named.
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