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High School Showcase, known under itscorporate sponsored name as theGEICO High School Showcase, is a presentation ofhigh school football and high school basketball onESPN,ESPN2 andESPNU. Since debuting in 2005, it primarily airs on Friday at 8pmET on ESPNU, followingESPNU Recruiting Insider, but will occasionally air at various times and days on ESPN and ESPN2. The Friday Night Showcase game is called byJason Benetti and ESPN Recruiting CoordinatorCraig Haubert. Various commentators call other games throughout the week, althoughMike Hall andTom Luginbill anchor the halftime report and in-game updates. The series was previouslyOld Spice Red Zone High School Showcase; the series also has previously hadHonda as a presenting sponsor. What games can be broadcast are limited by state high school sports sanctioning bodies; some states restrict or block game broadcasts entirely to encourage in-person game attendance.

Old Spice High School Showcase debuted in 2005 as a way to fill programming on the then-nascent ESPNU channel, which had debuted in March 2005. The series aired only four games in 2005, but after much success ESPN expanded its schedule to a full thirteen game season. Part of what lead ESPN to expanding its schedule is, in 2005, ESPN aired the highest rated high school football game in television history.Nease High School (Florida) vs.Hoover High School (Alabama) garnered a 1.0 rating and attracted nearly one million households.

MostHigh School Showcase games span from late August through the end of October. Only once has the showcase aired aThanksgiving game, the 2006 matchup betweenLehigh Valley rivalsEaston, PA andPhillipsburg, NJ; ESPNU has switched to coverage ofcollege basketball in November, limiting the channel's opportunities to cover high school contests.

Old Spice High School Showcase started to air high school basketball games in 2006, as well.

Games in theHigh School Showcase are also broadcast onESPN3.

ESPN also airs post season programming of the GeicoState Champions Bowl Series, featuring a current season's high school football state champion playing against another state's champion.

In the summer of 2021, ESPN drew controversy for featuring a game betweenIMG Academy, a prominent preparatory school for prospective college football players, and the Bishop Sycamore Centurions. Shortly after IMG roundly defeated Bishop Sycamore 58–0 on August 29, questions about the Centurions, their school, players and administrators began to emerge. The school's address was traced to an athletic complex inColumbus, Ohio, but no evidence of any educational operations has ever been found. ESPN stated that the game, as with all of itsHigh School Showcase matchups, was scheduled by Paragon Marketing Group, who admitted failing to dodue diligence on the school. IMG had agreed to the matchup despite soundly defeating the team the previous season as well, 56–6, part of a campaign in which the Centurions went 0–6; no evidence of the team or school exists before 2019. Bishop Sycamore had also, without the knowledge of Paragon and against all high school sanctioning bodies' rules regarding time requirements between games, played a game in Pennsylvania less than 48 hours prior to their appearance onHigh School Showcase, and the team's claims of having a roster stacked withDivision I prospects was proven false,^[1] with most of the roster consisting of recent high school graduates who had gone unrecruited by colleges and some of whom had also lied about their age.^[2] It was initially reported as an onlinecharter school, but theOhio Department of Education stated that it was a religious academy that did not file for a charter;^[3] there is no bishop named Sycamore in theRoman Catholic Diocese of Columbus for whom the school would be named.^[2]

• ESPNU Recruiting Insider

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• 2011 Old Spice High School Showcase Schedule
• 2006 Old Spice High School Showcase Schedule at theWayback Machine (archived March 13, 2007)
• 2007 Old Spice High School Showcase Schedule

• 2005 American television series debuts
• 2000s American high school television series
• ESPNU original programming
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• ESPN2 original programming
• 2000s American sports television series
• High school football in the United States

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