Welcome to the official site of the Buckeye High School Varsity Football team. The 2008 Season is the 56th Season of Buckeye Football. The Bucks finished their 3rd season in the Patriot Athletic Conference in 2007. They posted a 6-4 overall record and went 6-1 in Conference play capturing their 2nd PAC Stars Division crown in 3 seasons.

The Bucks have posted winning seasons for the past 5 seasons. They went 8-3 in 2003, and 6-3 in 2004, 10-1 in 2005, 7-3 in 2006 and 6-4 in 2007 for a 37-14-0 record as the open the 2008 campaign. They made OHSAA State Playoff appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Membership in the new Patriot Athletic Conference, consisting of ten teams, brought shorter bus rides. These last 3 seasons there were no bus rides to away games as all the sports were funded by the Buckeye Boosters and not by the school district. This season busing has been reinstated and the Bucks' parents no longer will have to do the caravaans. 

The Bucks opened the 2006 campaign with a first ever meeting with the South Urban Academy Bulldogs in a non-conference game and renewed an old acquaintance from the by hooking up with the Midview Middies for the 1st time since 1956.  In 2007 they played conference foe Clearview for the first time in school history.

Their 55th Season saw the beginning of the Billy Burke era as he took over as the 13th Buckeye Head Football Coach. Coach Burke took them to a 6-4-0 record and captured a Conference Crown in the PAC. He and the Bucks look to improve on that as they embark on 2008. 

Go Bucks! Buckeye Pride!!

The Bucks and Pirates will hook up Friday night in their 20th meeting. This series was established in 1960. They played four game up until 1963 with the Bucks winning all 4 contests, the Pirates scored only 14 points in those games. They then took 30 years off and did not play again until 1993 when Buckeye joined the Mohican Area Conference (MAC).

As documented the 11 years in the MAC were not kind to the Bucks, they posted a 19-35-0 record winning only 1 MAC Championship in 2002, that title was decided in the last game of the season on a 10-9 victory over the Pirates at home. That season was also the first time the Bucks made a post season appearance in the State Playoffs. This Friday's game will give one of these teams sole possesion of 1st Place in the PAC Stars Division.

In the 1997 season the two teams combined for 100 points in as River drubbed the Bucks at home 68-32. The Bucks hold the series lead 13-6 with the Buckeye winning the last 4. The last loss was in 2003 by a margin of 35-28 despite Dan Cereshko complete 21 of 42 passes for 375 yards, and brother Darren catching 14 of them for 264 yards, both stats being school records. 

These two teams have always competed hard and played some great games in this matchup so come out on Friday night to watch the Bucks try to make it 5 straight over the Pirates.

Did You Know?

The Bucks are 21-4 in the PAC. They have out scored their opponents 872 to 294, which is a 35 points per game average, while allowing just under 12.

Around the PAC for Week #8...........

The Clearview Clippers (8-0, 5-0) took their unbeaten record on the road to Sheffeild Lake and put a whipping on the Brookside Cardinals (0-8, 0-5), to the tune of 63-7. 

The Wellington Dukes (2-6, 2-3) coming off a close loss to Black River hosted the Keystone Wildcats (3-5, 2-3) and got redemption 40-7. 

The (6-2, 3-2) Oberlin Phoenix dropped their game to the Lutheran West Longhorns (5-3, 3-2) by a score of 40-21. 

Last week' s opponent the Columbia Raiders (1-7,1-4) were home in Columbia Station playing host to the Brooklyn Hurricanes (4-4, 2-3) who beat them 29-7.

As for our non-conference opponents, the Cloverleaf Colts lost their 2nd consecutive game 24-10 to the Barberton Magics. Speaking of Magic, with 4 seconds left the Highland Hornets snatched victory from defeat with a Hail Mary pass to get a 24-21 win over the Wadsworth Grizzlies to continue their hold on 1st Place in the Suburban League. The Midview Middies, after being torpedoed by Avon last week, got a 42-21 victory on home cooking against the Fairview Warriors.

Here is the link to Joe Eitel's High School site. He ranks all the teams in their respective divisions. The Bucks are in Division III Region 10 for the 2008 Season. Click on the highlighted text to go to that page. He does a weekly update every Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Wanna post or read thoughts about football in the Patriot Athletic Conference? Check out the high school football online with the Plain Dealer where you can post on the Patriot Athletic Conference Football Forum or read about high school football across Northeastern Ohio.

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The Ohio Helmet project is a site that is trying to create and post the helmet graphics of all 711 high schools in the state of Ohio. We submitted the Bucks helmet pictures in 2002 and an actual decal in 2006.  That gave the helmet graphic a cleaner look and larger size, it is also used on stat and record pages. Thanks go out to Kevin Dudley, the man behind the project, who has been working hard on this site. It is interesting to look through so surf by and check out. We have also helped out by submitting Wellington, Highland, Avon, and Vermilion helmet pictures. The Patriot Athletic Conference has been created on the site, so take a look to see what type of protective headwear all the other teams in the state are wearing by clicking on their link!