The Missouri State High School Activities Association has announced that the football state championship games for Class 6 and 8-Man will be held at Faurot Field in Columbia this season.

The games will take place on Friday, November 18 at the University of Missouri after the MSHSAA Board of Directors voted in June to hold the Class 6 and 8-Man games at the same venue and eliminate the bye the two classes traditionally had between the semifinals and the championship games.

Missouri State University will still host the championship games for Classes 1-5 on November 25-26 at Plaster Stadium.  Springfield was originally selected to host all of the 11-man state title games.

This will be the first time the 11-man title games haven’t been played inside the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis since 1995, while the 8-Man game moved to St. Louis in 2008.