Corrections
Every data change to this site is a commit in version control, with a date, a diff, and a reason. This page summarises corrections that changed a state's status or a published figure.
If we have your state wrong, email corrections@prepflagfootball.com. We would rather hear it from the association than from a reader, and we will credit the source.
Log
2026-11-01 — Field size in the rules FAQ
Our high school rules FAQ described the most common field as 80 by 40 yards including the end zones. It is an 80-by-40-yard field of play plus two 10-yard end zones (300 by 120 feet in all). The FAQ and our new guide to starting a team now say so. Source: NFHS 2026-27 field diagrams.
2026-11-01 — NAIA championship on the homepage
Our homepage still said the NAIA already crowns a national champion, after we corrected the same claim on our college page in September. The NAIA's first national championship is in spring 2027. The homepage now matches. Source: NAIA.
2026-11-01 — Pennsylvania's first state championship
We recorded Pennsylvania's first PIAA state championship as 2026. The PIAA's 8 October 2026 release says the inaugural PIAA Girls' Flag Football Championships will be held in spring 2027 at Penn State Harrisburg; the 2026 event we had counted was not a PIAA championship. Pennsylvania's sanctioned status is unchanged. Source: PIAA.
2026-11-01 — Virginia meeting date
Our upcoming-decisions calendar and our October preview said the VHSL Executive Committee would meet on 1 October 2026. The VHSL's own 2026-27 schedule shows the meeting was on 23 September 2026, and its next meetings are on 4 February and 6 May 2027. The calendar now lists 4 February. Virginia's status is unchanged (unconfirmed). Source: VHSL Executive Committee.
2026-09-16 — Oregon note
Our Oregon entry said the OSAA had not yet moved any sport from emerging activity to full sanctioning. The OSAA's own April 2026 article says girls flag football would be the third sport sanctioned in recent years, after girls wrestling and boys volleyball. We have removed the claim. Oregon's status is unchanged. Source: OSAAtoday.
2026-09-15 — The "20 adoptions" in the NFHS rules book
Our rules guide, our PDF and our post on why the counts disagree said the 2026-27 NFHS rules book carries adoptions from twenty state associations, and the post suggested this might explain the NFHS map's count of 20. That misread the source. The "20 state association adoptions" are 20 rules that each state decides for itself, as Maryland's association makes clear. We have corrected all three and withdrawn the theory in the post. The post also said we had asked the NFHS about its map's criteria; we had not yet sent that question, and the sentence has been removed. Source: MPSSAA.
2026-09-15 — Louisiana status
We listed Louisiana as sanctioned, based on the NFHS membership map. The LHSAA's own girls flag football page quotes its bylaw requiring a two-year probationary pilot before a new sport is finally adopted, and reporting on the 2025 decision says the sport becomes sanctioned in 2027-28. We now record Louisiana as a pilot. Source: LHSAA girls flag football page.
2026-09-15 — California season
Our rules guide, pathway guide and PDF listed California among the states that play girls flag football in spring. CIF approved the sport as a fall sport, and the CIF Southern Section's 2026-27 rules state that it is conducted in the fall. Our California entry already said fall; the guides now match it. Source: CIF Southern Section 2026-27 Blue Book.
2026-09-15 — Connecticut status
We listed Connecticut as sanctioned, based on reporting. The CAS-CIAC 2026-27 Handbook does not include girls flag football among the sports the CIAC controls. Connecticut's championship is organised by the Connecticut Student Activities Conference, under the Connecticut Association of Schools, rather than by the CIAC. We now record Connecticut as association-organised play without formal adoption (pilot). Source: CAS-CIAC Handbook 2026-27, section 2.7.
2026-09-15 — NAIA and NJCAA status
Our college page said the NAIA already crowns a national champion. It does not yet: the NAIA approved championship status in June 2026, and its first national championship is scheduled for spring 2027. We also updated the NAIA's sponsoring schools from about 35 to the 60 it expects for 2026-27, and replaced an unconfirmed NJCAA entry with the NJCAA's June 2026 decision to make the sport a championship sport from 2027-28. We removed an unsourced estimate of 400 college programmes. Sources: NAIA, NJCAA.
2026-09-15 — Player count under NFHS rules
Our rules guide, sanctioning guide, pathway guide and free PDF said the NFHS Flag Football Rules are played five on five and that Georgia's seven-a-side game made it a different sport. That was wrong. The NFHS rules book is written for seven on seven, and Georgia also plays seven a side. The pages now describe Georgia's actual differences: its own rulebook, its own period length, and a try that can be worth three points. Source: NFHS.
2026-09-15 — State page summary line
Every sanctioned state page said the state holds a state championship. California's does not; CIF championships are run by sections. The summary line now follows each state's championship field.