84 days until Oregon high school football season: One number for each day as we count down to kickoff 2023
By Mike Wilson
The Oregon high school football season is scheduled to begin Thursday, Aug. 31 — 84 days from today. As we count down the days until kickoff, SBLive Oregon will give you one significant number per day.
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84
1984 was the last time a team from east of the Cascade Range won the big-school OSAA championship. In that year, Crook County completed a 14-0 season with a 28-6 win at Civic Stadium in Portland over Lakeridge of Lake Oswego.
Since the advent of OSAA’s six-classification system, Class 6A hasn’t always had a representative from east of the Cascades. Even before the start of the six-classification system, the closest a team has come — geographically — to supplanting the Cowboys of Prineville has been Ashland.
The Grizzlies won the Class 4A title three times since 1984 — 1989, 1991 and 1998.
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