Playoff football formatting in Colorado allows for conference champions to earn automatic bids to the post-season with the remaining slots filled by RPI rankings. As a result, there are top non-league games in each class each year that will help determine which clubs head into the post-season and then where they’re placed in the bracket. Colorado Preps has gone through the schedule for 11-man football and developed our list of the most important non-league games in each class.
Games are listed by class and in chronological order by date. Most of the games involve matchups of teams within the same classification only as we did not include many cross division contests.
We will offer up the same list for 8man and 6man football once all those schedules are finalized next week.
Colorado Preps will preview the top games each week with our weekly previews and then recap the action with the return of the Scoreboard Show which airs each Friday night from 9:30-11:00pm on the Colorado Preps Radio Network.
CLASS 5A
- August 26th: Grandview at Pomona
- August 27th: Regis at Valor Christian
- Sept 3rd: Pomona at Cherry Creek
- Sept 3rd: Legend at Mullen
- Sept 10th: Regis at Mullen
- Sept 17th: Ralston Valley at Grandview
- Sept 17th; Mountain Vista at Legend
- Sept 23rd: Chaparral at Fairview
- Sept 24th: Cherry Creek at Regis
- Sept 24th: Columbine at Valor Christian
- Sept 25th: Ralston Valley at Doherty
CLASS 4A
- August 27th: Pine Creek at Pueblo West
- August 27th: Windsor at Vista Ridge
- August 27th: Longmont at Chatfield
- Sept 3rd: Broomfield at Longmont
- Sept 3rd: Dakota Ridge at Vista Ridge
- Sept 3rd: Fruita Monument at Montrose
- Sept 9th: Fountain Fort Carson at Chatfield
- Sept 10th: Pine Creek at Vista Ridge
- Sept 10th: Longmont at Windsor
- Sept 10th: Fruita Monument at Grand Junction
- Sept 17th: Windsor at Loveland
- Sept 17th: Longmont at Erie
- Sept 17th: Rampart at Dakota Ridge
- Sept 17th: Palmer Ridge at Pueblo West
- Sept 23rd: Vista Peak at Ponderosa
- Sept 24th: Chatfield at Pine Creek
- Sept 24th: Loveland at Broomfield
- Sept 24th Grand Junction at Montrose
- Sept 25th: Vista Ridge at Rampart
CLASS 3A
- August 26th: Pueblo East at Palmer Ridge
- August 27th: Holy Family at Pueblo South
- Sept 3rd: Canon City at Harrison
- Sept 3rd: Pueblo South at Discovery Canyon
- Sept 3rd: Roosevelt at Holy Family
- Sept 9th: Mead at Discovery Canyon
- Sept 10th: Frederick at Fort Morgan
- Sept 17th: Fort Morgan at Conifer
- Sept 17th: Green Mountain at Holy Family
- Sept 23rd: Thomas Jefferson at Pueblo South
- Sept 24th: Discovery Canyon at Fort Morgan
- Oct 1st: Pueblo South at Green Mountain
- Nov 5th: Fort Morgan at Holy Family
CLASS 2A
- August 26th: Kent Denver at University
- August 27th: Sterling at Resurrection Christian
- August 27th: Alamosa at Classical Academy
- Sep 2nd: Sterling at Eaton
- Sept 3rd: La Junta at Pagosa Springs
- Sept 10th: Basalt at Faith Christian
- Sept 10th: Alamosa at La Junta
- Sept 17th: Faith Christian at Rifle
- Sept 17th: Brush at Severance
- Sept 18th: Eaton at Platte Valley
- Sept 24th: Faith Christian at Eaton
- Oct 16th: Bayfield at La Junta
- Oct 23rd: Pagosa Springs at Classical Academy
- Oct 29th: Alamosa at Lamar
CLASS 1A
- August 27th: Florence at Peyton
- August 27th: Wiggins at Highland
- August 27th: Wray at Centauri
- Sept 2nd: Bennett at Highland
- Sept 3rd: Yuma at Strasburg
- Sept 4th: Limon at Meeker
- Sept 10th: North Fork at Monte Vista
- Sept 10th: Buena Vista at Bennett
- Sept 10th: Strasburg at Limon
- Sept 11th: Estes Park at Wray
- Sept 17th: Peyton at Buena Vista
- Sept 17th: Yuma at Highland
- Sept 17th: Centauri at Strasburg
- Sept 17th: Platte Canyon at Monte Vista
- Sept 18th; Holyoke at Florence
- Sept 24th: Bennett at Strasburg
- Sept 25th: Meeker at Buena Vista