The season-0pening game for the Kell High School football team could be dubbed “Wednesday Night Lights.”
The Longhorns will get to play at home next week as expansion of the Corky Kell Classic high school extravaganza has come to the East Cobb area.
But they’ll be suiting up on Wednesday, the first day of four days of Corky Kell games at five venues in metro Atlanta and North Georgia.
The event starts Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at “The Stockyard” on the Kell campus (4770 Lee Waters Road) when North Atlanta faces Johns Creek.
The nightcap of that doubleheader kicks off at 8 p.m., when Kell plays Gwinnett County powerhouse Parkview.
According to the Maxwell Ratings published at Georgia High School Football Daily, Kell is projected to finish second in Region 6 behind Cambridge High School of Milton.
The Longhorns were 10-2 in 2022, finished at No. 11 in the Georgia High School Association Class 5A final rankings, reaching the second round of the playoffs.
Other games will take place in Rome, West Forsyth and Roswell before culminating on Saturday, Aug. 19, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta. Four games are on tap, starting with Marietta vs. Norcross at 10 a.m. and Brookwood vs. McEachern at 1 p.m.
The final game starts at 7 p.m. and features the Walton Raiders against another Gwinnett school, Grayson.
Walton is coming off a 2022 season in which the Raiders went 10-3 and reached the quarterfinals of the Class 7A playoffs.
The Maxwell Ratings have projected Walton to finish second behind North Cobb in Region 5, with Wheeler fifth out of six teams.
In Class 6A, the other three East Cobb teams are in Region 7, which has seven schools. Sprayberry, which as 4-7 a year ago, is projected fourth, Pope sixth and Lassiter seventh.
Lassiter (3-7 in 2022) kicks off its season on Thursday at Etowah at 7:30 p.m. Wheeler (5-6 in 2022) is at Centennial on Friday, also at 7:30 p.m., and Sprayberry visits Campbell on Friday in another 7:30 p.m. start.
Pope will start at home on Friday, Aug. 26, against River Ridge at 7:30 p.m. The Greyhounds, who were 1-9 last year, have a new head coach in Sean O’Sullivan, a former Pope player who has been the team’s defensive coordinator since 2017.
Here’s more information about the Corky Kell Classic, including television schedules and online ticket sales.
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