Herbstreit Bringing HS Series to Cowboys Stadium

Five local teams will take part in national series

By ADAM BOEDEKER

Updated 8:00 AM CDT, Fri, Jul 24, 2009

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The first high school football to be played in the mammoth known as the new Cowboys Stadium will be those featured in the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series presented by Burger King, which will be played on Labor Day.

Herbstreit, known more for his work on ESPN's college football coverage than his playing days as a quarterback at Ohio State, is a well-known homer for everything Ohio, and in this series he pits eight Ohio schools against each other at The Horseshoe, and seemingly eight Texas schools against each other, although there's the addition of a team from Utah and one from California thrown into the DFW mix.

Ohio has long been known to have some of the best high school football in the country, along with Texas, California and Florida, so this series' idea is a good one at its core.

The schedule for Labor Day at Cowboys Stadium is as follows:

10:30 a.m.
Bingham (Utah) vs. Euless Trinity

1:30 p.m.
Mansfield Timberview vs. Mansfield Summit

4:30 p.m.
Colleyville Heritage vs. Irving MacArthur

7:30 p.m.
Notre Dame (Calif.) vs. Klein Oak

Tickets are on sale and can be purchased online or through participating high schools. The tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and one ticket will allow you to watch all of the four games.

Adam Boedeker is a sports writer/award-winning blogger for the Denton Record-Chronicle. He's only interested in the series if ESPN's Erin Andrews decides to help out her co-worker.