Let’s get ready to rumble. Indeed. Football 2008, the 41st annual edition of the Ohio Valley’s premier football preview section, can be found in today’s edition of The Intelligencer. The section highlights 45 area high school football teams, and also has each team’s complete roster and schedule. The cover of this year’s publication features two of the area’s top high school talents — Steubenville Big Red star Branko Busick and Wheeling Central Catholic Maroon Knight standout Dan Gordon. Busick and Gordon will face off on the field Oct. 17 at Harding Stadium. Football 2008 also includes previews of 13 college teams — including preseason No. 2 Ohio State University and No. 8 West Virginia University — along with conference previews of the Big East, Big 10, the West Virginia Conference and the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. The publication also includes a list of high school players to watch in the Ohio Valley, broken down between big school and small school. A total of 90 players are highlighted. “Football is important in the Ohio Valley, and we at The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register share in the excitement of the upcoming season,” said J. Michael Myer, the newspapers’ executive editor. “We take pride in producing what we believe is one of the finest football previews in the United States.”