High school football is less than a week away. 
The 2024 season kicks off in mid-week for one East Cobb team as the Corky Kell +Dave Hunter Classic gets underway on Wednesday.
The Stockyard, Kell’s home stadium, will be playing host to a doubleheader on Wednesday, led by Douglass-Atlanta vs. LaGrange at 4:30 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. the Longhorns will be facing North Atlanta.
In 2023, Kell went 9-2 and reached the first round of the Class 5A Georgia High School Association playoffs.
Named after Corky Kell, the late Wheeler football coach, and former Brookwood coach Dave Hunter the event continues through the week at venues in Forsyth County, Dacula and Rome, culminating with four games on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
The Walton Raiders, who had one of their best seasons in school history last year, lead things off Saturday morning with a 10 a.m. game against Brookwood.
Last year, the Raiders reached the Class 7A state championship game before losing to Milton and finished with a 13-1 record.
An all-classification poll by MaxPrep Sports has Walton in at No. 12 in the state, the only school from Cobb in the Top 25, but the Raiders lost many of their top offensive players.
On Friday, the other East Cobb schools are in action in regular-season games as well, and they’re all playing at home.
Alexander is at Sprayberry (6-4), Cambridge is at Pope (2-8), Midtown is at Lassiter (1-9) and North Forsyth is at Wheeler (8-3), which also qualified for the Class 7A playoffs.
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