COLUMBUS — Eight-man football has become a popular choice for some small northwest Ohio high school programs struggling to find enough players to have a competitive team. Danbury, Holgate, Stryker and Toledo Christian formed Ohio’s first 8-man football league, The Northern 8 Football Conference, this fall. So, what does this have to do with Ohio State playing Nebraska on Saturday afternoon in its much-anticipated football opener? Eight-man football has been popular for decades in many small towns in the West and Great Plains states, including Nebraska. Nebraska is among 11 states which go even further and have high school teams which play 6-man football. There are 275 high schools with football teams in Nebraska. Of those 275 teams, 109 are 8-man teams and 35 more play the 6-man version of the game. Nebraska’s four national championships and its record of never winning fewer than nine games every season from 1969…
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