The bump up from 2A to 3A due to the Success Factor for Adams Central football has created a ripple effect in local high school football. That’s the takeaway from the IHSAA’s announcement this week of the new two-year sectional assignments for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The local 3A sectional becomes much more local than the previous version, with Adams Central and Bluffton both joining the traditional schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3A Sectional #27: Adams Central, Bellmont, Bluffton, Concordia Lutheran, Garrett, Heritage, Norwell, Woodlan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jets will end up playing three potential sectional opponents in the regular season with ACAC members Bluffton, Heritage and Woodlan on the schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bellmont, however, will face a regular season where the only sectional opponent they see in the regular season will be rival Norwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n South Adams will also see a vastly different field in 1A with the shakeup from the new enrollment figures. They’ll join back up with Southern Wells in a sectional that stretches all the way from Fremont to Wabash to Poneto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1A Sectional #44: Churubusco, Blackhawk Christian, Fremont, Northfield, South Adams, Southern Wells, Southwood, Whitko<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Other Local Sectional Assignments<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6A Sectional #4: Carroll (FW), Northrop, Homestead, Noblesville<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5A Sectional #11: Snider, South Side, Wayne, Warsaw<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5A Sectional #12: Anderson, Huntington North, Lafayette Jeff, McCutcheon<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4A Sectional #19: Columbia City, DeKalb, East Noble, Bishop Dwenger, North Side, Leo, New Haven, Wawasee<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4A Sectional #20: Delta, Bishop Luers, Jay County, Kokomo, Logansport, Marion, Muncie Central, Yorktown<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bump up from 2A to 3A due to the Success Factor for Adams Central football has created<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,13,52,15,54,51,49,46,28,53,26],"class_list":["post-35474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamscentral","tag-bellmont","tag-bluffton","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-heritage","tag-jaycounty","tag-norwell","tag-southadams","tag-southernwells","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3129.2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35475,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions\/35475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}