With a full season ready to go, the 2021 football campaign gets started on Thursday with week one action stretching all the way to Saturday. Colorado Preps will post the top 10 schedule each Monday and the opening schedule includes somewhat of a quirk where four of the seven number one clubs are off this week.
The list of games is solid including 11 games pitting top 10 teams against one another. One of the top ones can be found in Class 1A where #3 Centauri entertains #5 Wray. Both clubs are coming off semifinal appearances last Fall. There’s also a top five clash in the six man division pitting #4 Stratton on the road to #5 Prairie. Class 3A features a very important early season game between #4 Holy Family and #6 Pueblo South. Both are likely playoff teams so the outcome will play into post-season bracketing.
Rivalry wise, some good pairings between Rifle-Palisade out West and Ponderosa-Legend in Parker. Of note is also the intra-state matchup of #1 Sedgwick County (8man) and Dundy County NE. Both are returning state champions from Fall 2020 with the Cougars starting the drive which they hope ends with a seventh consecutive state crown.
In the big school ranks, two high level opening week battles have #1 Valor Christian visiting #6 Regis and #7 Pomona hosting #9 Grandview.
Below is the entire schedule for Top 10 teams. Colorado Preps will look at some of these games leading up to Thursday and then recap all the action during the Friday Night Scoreboard Show. We enter our 19th year of providing in-depth coverage of high school football across Colorado.
SIX MAN
#1 Granada at Wiley (SAT)
FINAL: #2 Cheyenne Wells beat Hi Plains 64-14
FINAL: #3 Fleming beat Arickaree/Woodlin 46-0
FINAL: #4 Stratton beat #5 Prairie 60-29
FINAL: #8 Idalia beat #6 Cheraw 66-12
FINAL: #7 Briggsdale beat Kiowa 56-8
FINAL: #9 Genoa Hugo beat #10 Eads 50-39
EIGHT MAN
FINAL: Dundy County NE beat #1 Sedgwick County 42-14
FINAL: #2 Sanford beat Crowley County 52-14
FINAL: #3 Merino beat Pikes Peak Christian 26-0
FINAL: #4 Mancos beat Hayden 57-8
FINAL: #5 Dove Creek beat Plateau Valley 56-22
FINAL: #6 Holly beat Swink 42-0
FINAL: #7 Haxtun beat South Park 66-0
FINAL: #8 Dayspring Christian beat Springfield 52-0
FINAL: #9 Fowler beat Sargent 54-6
FINAL: #10 Hoehne beat John Mall 44-12
CLASS 1A
#1 Limon – OFF
FINAL: #8 Platte Valley (2A) beat #2 Strasburg 18-7
FINAL: #3 Centauri beat #5 Wray 28-14
FINAL: #4 Florence beat Peyton 50-0
FINAL: #6 Buena Vista beat Salida 47-0
FINAL: #7 North Fork beat Center 42-8
#8 Holyoke – OFF
#9 Meeker – OFF
FINAL: Wiggins beat #10 Highland 38-21
CLASS 2A
#1 Eaton – OFF
FINAL: #8 Palisade (3A) beat #2 Rifle 35-3
FINAL: #3 Classical Academy beat Alamosa 38-13
FINAL: #4 Resurrection Christian beat #7 Sterling 42-0
FINAL: #5 Basalt beat Woodland Park 35-6
FINAL: #6 Delta beat Summit 27-0
FINAL: #9 Lamar beat Sierra 40-8
FINAL: #10 Severance beat D’Evelyn 54-0
CLASS 3A
#1 Roosevelt – OFF
FINAL: #2 Durango beat Pagosa Springs 58-0
FINAL: #3 Mead beat Pueblo Centennial 45-0
FINAL: #4 Holy Family beat #6 Pueblo South 34-27
FINAL: #5 Lutheran beat Lutheran MO 35-14
FINAL: Eagle Valley beat #7 Thomas Jefferson 38-30 (2 OT)
#9 Fort Morgan at Scottsbluff NE (game called at half tied at 7-7 / unsure if it will be resumed)
FINAL: #10 Discovery Canyon beat Lewis Palmer 42-21
CLASS 4A
FINAL: #1 Palmer Ridge beat Pueblo East 49-14
FINAL: #2 Loveland beat Thompson Valley 34-0
FINAL: #3 Dakota Ridge beat First Coast FL 23-20
FINAL: Golden beat #4 Broomfield 29-22
FINAL: #5 Fountain Fort Carson beat Widefield 48-0
FINAL: #5 Legend (5A) beat #6 Ponderosa 42-0
FINAL: #7 Montrose beat Grand Junction Central 46-6
FINAL: Pine Creek beat #8 Pueblo West 27-0
FINAL: #9 Skyline beat Rampart 21-14
FINAL: #10 Vista Ridge beat Windsor 26-20
CLASS 5A
FINAL: #1 Valor Christian beat #6 Regis 24-6
FINAL: #2 Cherry Creek beat Doherty 42-0
FINAL: #3 Columbine beat Denver East 42-21
FINAL: #4 Ralston Valley beat Fossil Ridge 21-3
FINAL: #9 Grandview beat #7 Pomona 30-29
FINAL: Chaparral beat #8 Eaglecrest 35-21
FINAL: #10 Fairview beat Boulder 42-21
