SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The South Dakota High School Football season is coming to a close soon, with semifinal games kicking off Friday.

Teams still in the competition for state titles just wrapped up a three-week stretch of Thursday games, meaning some are making cross-state trips and returning that evening for classes the next morning.

Originally, that stretch of games leading up to the state championships was held on a Thursday-Tuesday-Monday-Saturday schedule. However, SDHSAA Executive Director Dan Swartos said that was changed due to new findings on concussions, and to try to space games apart as much as possible.

“A Week 0 was added, and then at the time, we gave some options to our schools on what format they wanted. This Thursday-Thursday-Thursday-Friday was the on

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