{"id":836,"date":"2021-08-14T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:16:26","slug":"friday-night-football-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL &#8211; IT&#8217;S HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High School Football in Tennessee is back. The excitement, the atmosphere, the rivalries are all back for another year. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s have a special season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>East Tennessee<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knoxville Fulton at Austin-East<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Valley at Cloudland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyner at Howard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greeneville at Knoxville Central<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McMinn Co. at McMinn Central<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morristown East at Morristown West<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleveland at Red Bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dobyns Bennett at Tennessee High<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabethton at Science Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Middle Tennessee<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marshall Co. at Columbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ECS at Ensworth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trousdale Co. at Friendship Christian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith Co. at Gordonsville (Sat)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gallatin at Mt. Juliet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MBA at Ravenwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smyrna at Stewarts Creek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cookeville vs. Upperman (Thu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Brentwood at Blackman<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp; <strong><u>West Tennessee<\/u><\/strong> <strong><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong> Waverly at Camden &nbsp; Germantown at Christian Brothers (Sat) &nbsp; Summit at Henry Co . USJ at Liberty Magnet &nbsp; Covington at Munford-Sat &nbsp; Arlington at MUS &nbsp; Lexington &amp; South Gibson &nbsp; Melrose at White Station &nbsp; Memphis Overton at Whitehaven (Sat)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School Football in Tennessee is back. The excitement, the atmosphere, the rivalries are all back for another year. It\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}