High School Football Returns To Buffalo Grove

BUFFALO GROVE, IL — It has been a two-year wait for the return of Friday night fall football in many American communities, where gathering at the local high school stadium has become a long-standing early school year tradition.

In some places, such as Illinois, high school football is making a return to the fall after a 2020 season that was largely put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead of taking the field last fall, many schools held football season in the spring — which, on school sports calendars, can run anywhere from February through June.

In Illinois, that meant abbreviated six-game schedules and no playoffs. It wasn't exactly the time of year when prep sports enthusiasts are accustomed to getting behind their alma mater on the gridiron.

This year, the season has already begun in some states.

Fall football season at the high school level has already kicked off in Alaska and Utah, according to MaxPreps.com, a site covering high school athletics nationwide. Sixteen more states will begin contests on the weekend of Aug. 20-21, with others set to begin either the final weekend of August or in early September.

BUFFALO GROVE BISON

Mid-Suburban East (Coached by Mike DiMatteo)

• Week 1: 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at Lincoln-Way Central (non-conference)
• Week 2: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, at Conant (non-conference)
• Week 3: 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at Maine West (non-conference)
• Week 4: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, home vs. Niles North (non-conference)
• Week 5: 7 pm. Friday, Sept. 24, at Prospect (conference)
• Week 6: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, home vs. Elk Grove (conference)
• Week 7: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at Rolling Meadows (conference)
• Week 8: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, home vs. Wheeling (conference)
• Week 9: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct 22, home vs. Hersey (conference)

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