These have been surreal times in Goshen High School football — and that was true even before the global pandemic.

Expectations have sure changed for the Fairfield football program.

NorthWood High School football coach Nate Andrews doesn’t mind dealing with a few dilemmas.

New Jimtown football coach Cory Stoner respects the Jimmies' rich football history.

Gone is the Division I quarterback. Gone is the all-everything running back/defensive back. Gone is the star linebacker. Gone are five out of six All-Northern Lakes Conference first-team picks.

ELKHART — The newly formed Elkhart High School football team has a message: It's time for uniting the community.

Take a look at the Fairfield football roster and one thing sticks out.

NAPPANEE — The Class 4A state runner-up NorthWood High School football team gathered this week to present special award winners.

Jason Spriggs isn't letting the cold of a Green Bay winter get to him.

INDIANAPOLIS — Five players from Elkhart Truth area schools, including two from NorthWood, have been accorded Associated Press Indiana All-State Football first-team honors.

INDIANAPOLIS — A common question among media covering NorthWood football for the first time during postseason was the one asking whether Brayton Yoder and Bronson Yoder are related.

INDIANAPOLIS — NorthWood senior Drew Minnich was proud to win the Phil N. Eskew Mental Attitude Award at the conclusion of the Class 4A title game.

NAPPANEE — Nate Andrews wouldn't mind if his NorthWood football players already owned a bit more acclimation to Lucas Oil Stadium — like, say, maybe as much as his 7-year-old daughter, Viviana — but he's hopeful they won't be too in awe of the venue and the circumstances for Friday's Class 4…

NAPPANEE — Nate Andrews insists he's not angry now.

NAPPANEE — Although he graduated last spring, Tucker White is having an impact on the 2016 NorthWood football team's trip to the Class 4A state championship game.

LOWELL — Even by ordinary standards, and monstrously more so by their own, Trey Bilinski and Bronson Yoder put up some eerie-bad, seemingly flame-out numbers Friday at The Inferno.

LOWELL — “It’s the greatest feeling in the world. I don’t know how to describe it other than that,’’ NorthWood quarterback Trey Bilinski proclaimed after he and the Panthers escaped the windy Inferno with a chilling 21-14 victory over Lowell in Friday’s rugged semistate football championship.

MISHAWAKA – When Penn senior Matt Kominkiewicz saw his best friend, John Ohlson, go down in the Kingsmen's second football game of the season, he assumed it was a bone bruise and that Ohlson would be back in quickly.

NAPPANEE — Early in the 2015 high school football season, NorthWood quarterback Trey Bilinski got a double dose of reality when he was sidelined by a shoulder injury and watched then-freshman Bronson Yoder take control of the Panther offense.

NAPPANEE — Nate Andrews knows what to expect when his unbeaten and No. 2-ranked NorthWood football team travels to Lowell on Friday with a berth in the Class 4A state championship on the line.

NAPPANEE — Blessed with both size and athleticism, New Haven, according to NorthWood coach Nate Andrews, is a high school football team that can strike awe in an opponent.

Urston Smith was being as strong as possible for his 16-year-old sister Morgan and 10-year-old brother Tony prior to their mother's funeral last Friday at Community Mission Baptist Church in Elkhart.

NAPPANEE — As high school football programs go, NorthWood puts out an impressively thorough season statistical report each week, one that is typed, tabulated and includes five pages that detail the Panthers' offensive exploits, team-wise and individually.

MISHAWAKA — In the heat of August, the football teams from Penn and Crown Point got together for a scrimmage to work out the kinks and get ready for the 2016 season.

NAPPANEE — Coaches love a sure thing, or at least a seemingly sure thing. Maybe that's why most of them opt to try for one point rather than two points on a conversion most of the time after their teams score a touchdown.

NorthWood football victories keep coming, and with them, those postgame on-field huddles that include players, parents, students, cheerleaders and other fans keep growing in numbers and revelry.

KENDALLVILLE — NorthWood's offense put on another show, and yet its defense somehow stole the show on a night the Panthers cracked 50 points for the seventh time this season.

NORTHWOOD 52, EAST NOBLE 24