High School Football in Tennessee is back. The excitement, the atmosphere, the rivalries are all back for another year. It’s time to get excited and let the good times roll. Seniors this is your last stop except for a precious few. Parents, these are the best of times, cherish every minute. Coaches, the fruits of your labor, the hard work, energy, and time that you have given these kids will now show through on that long green field of battle. Band and cheerleaders like wise for you.

We all long for that first game each year so we will finally get to experience the excitement this first Friday night. Parents, faculty, and fans take time to enjoy these special times, win, lose or draw. Support these kids all along the way! Let’s have a special season.

Lots of questions are out there. In East Tennessee can Maryville get back to the Blue Cross Bowl? In Middle Tennessee has Williamson County surpassed Rutherford County as the best 6A county in the state? And in West Tennessee how will the Memphis schools react to being back playing after a year without football?

Below are some special matchups we have highlighted for Week One. Find the game you are most interested in and go support your team. It won’t last long.

East Tennessee

Knoxville Fulton at Austin-East

Happy Valley at Cloudland

Tyner at Howard

Greeneville at Knoxville Central

McMinn Co. at McMinn Central

Morristown East at Morristown West

Cleveland at Red Bank

Dobyns Bennett at Tennessee High

Elizabethton at Science Hill

Middle Tennessee

Marshall Co. at Columbia

ECS at Ensworth

Trousdale Co. at Friendship Christian

Smith Co. at Gordonsville (Sat)

Gallatin at Mt. Juliet

MBA at Ravenwood

Smyrna at Stewarts Creek

Cookeville vs. Upperman (Thu)

Brentwood at Blackman
  West Tennessee   Waverly at Camden   Germantown at Christian Brothers (Sat)   Summit at Henry Co . USJ at Liberty Magnet   Covington at Munford-Sat   Arlington at MUS   Lexington & South Gibson   Melrose at White Station   Memphis Overton at Whitehaven (Sat)