CSM Pick 'Em: Week 9, 2026
The final week of the high school football regular season looks to be one worth waiting for.
Tantalizing matchups across all conferences will make for a pivotal week heading into the playoffs where some teams are battling for seeding and others are fighting to make it into the field of 384.
Conference titles will also be on the line as well. Normal Community and Normal West perhaps most anticipated edition of the Chili Bowl as both teams are 8-0 and looking to win the Big 12. Heyworth and Tuscola also go head-to-head for the Heart of Central Illinois Small Conference title. Morton leads the pack by one game in the Mid-Illini but the winner of Pekin/Dunlap could tie for the conference title if Metamora is able to play spoiler against the Potters.
Other rivalry matchups include Peoria High at Peoria Notre Dame, Manual at Richwoods, Dee-Mack at Tremont and Stark County at Princeville.
Clutch Sports Media will be providing free live broadcasts of Pekin at Dunlap and Tuscola at Heyworth, both of which can be watched live and for free on centralillinoisproud.com/games/ and the WMBD+ app. Tuscola/Heyworth will kick off at 7 p.m. and Pekin/Dunlap will kick off at 7:30 p.m with pregame coverage starting 10-15 minutes before each broadcast.
Six members of the Clutch Sports Media staff have made their picks for 10 of the top games in the Peoria and Bloomington/Normal area in Week 9. Broadcasters for our broadcasted games are ineligible to pick winners of the games they are broadcasting and will pick the winner of an 11th game instead.
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