# Mississippi Friday night: upsets, shutouts and a 60-58 shootout

> Four ranked teams went down, one game ended 3-0, and another finished 60-58 across a packed Mississippi scoreboard.
- Title: Mississippi Friday night: upsets, shutouts and a 60-58…
- Summary: Four ranked teams went down, one game ended 3-0, and another finished 60-58 across a packed Mississippi scoreboard. The top three ranked teams held serve…
- Keywords: high school football, mississippi, scoreboard, upsets, prep sports, sports, Friday, night, shutouts, 60-58, shootout, High School On SI
- Source: High School On SI — https://si.com/high-school/mississippi/mississippi-high-school-football-final-scores-september-11-01m2a2dqgs3r
- Published: 2026-09-12T05:48:57+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: high school football, mississippi, scoreboard, upsets, prep sports, sports
## A full Friday slate
More than a hundred Mississippi high school football games finished on Friday, September 11. The scoreboard ran from 3-0 defensive grinds to a 60-58 shootout.

> Mississippi had an action-packed Friday night of high school football.
## Tupelo stays on top
Top-ranked Tupelo beat Houston 42-13, never letting the game get close. No. 1 in the state looked the part.

> (#1) Tupelo 42, Houston 13
## Gulfport blanks Laurel
No. 2 Gulfport put up 51 points and gave up none. Laurel never found the end zone.

> (#2) Gulfport 51, Laurel 0
## Starkville handles Meridian
No. 3 Starkville scored 42 on Meridian and won by 18. Meridian's 24 points were the most anyone in the top three allowed.

> (#3) Starkville 42, Meridian 24
## Warren Central flips the order
No. 8 Warren Central beat No. 5 Germantown 42-35 in the best ranked-versus-ranked game of the night. Seven points separated two of the state's top ten.

> (#8) Warren Central 42, (#5) Germantown 35
## Noxubee County stuns West Point
Unranked Noxubee County ran past No. 14 West Point 41-28. It was the clearest upset on the board, and not a narrow one.

> Noxubee County 41, (#14) West Point 28
## Louisville falls at home rank
John Curtis Christian knocked off No. 12 Louisville 29-22. A seven-point loss dropped another ranked team.

> John Curtis Christian 29, (#12) Louisville 22
## Brookhaven wins by one
Brookhaven beat No. 15 Madison Central 45-44. Eighty-nine combined points, and the whole thing came down to a single point.

> Brookhaven 45, (#15) Madison Central 44
## Oak Grove tops Hattiesburg
No. 6 Oak Grove beat No. 24 Hattiesburg 36-20, one of the few ranked matchups where the higher seed held.

> (#6) Oak Grove 36, (#24) Hattiesburg 20
## Kosciusko wins a shootout
Kosciusko and Hernando combined for 118 points, with Kosciusko taking it 60-58. Nothing else on the scoreboard came close to that total.

> Kosciusko 60, Hernando 58
## Three points was enough
South Delta beat Leflore County 3-0. One score, all night, in the lowest-scoring game of the slate.

> South Delta 3, Leflore County 0
## Lanier shuts out Jim Hill
Lanier beat Jim Hill 40-0 at Hughes Field in Jackson. It was one of more than twenty shutouts recorded across the state.

> Lanier 40, Jim Hill 0
## Decided by a point
Magee edged Mize 21-20, Sumrall held off Purvis 22-21, and Wesson beat Franklin County 15-14. Three games, three one-point margins.

> Wesson 15, Franklin County 14
## Key takeaway

The top three ranked teams held serve, but four ranked teams lost and several games came down to a single point.