Teams approach bye weeks differently.

Some scale back practices, a few give extended days off, while others treat them like any other week with little to no change in routine.

“I remember talking to Bob Palko about it and other schools that have had it, and really it’s just about getting healthy,” Peters Township coach T.J. Pack said. “We got on the field for a lot of drill work that we kind of didn’t pay enough attention to throughout the year.”

No matter how teams approach their bye weeks, one thing is certain. More often than not, teams that have that week off win their postseason openers with incredible regularity. Granted, byes are given only to the top three or four teams in a classification, but considering there is as much probability of a letdown because of a break in routine a

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