High School Football Returns To Germantown: See The Schedule

GERMANTOWN, MD —Montgomery County residents can expect a regular football season this year. It's 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 Montgomery County, the high school football season was put on hold last year and then abridged into a three-game season in the spring. But in 2021, all the big rivalries this time of year are back.

Northwest and Seneca Valley High School already played each of their first games of the year — both teams scored a win.

Northwest High School and Seneca Valley High School are rivals, the Montgomery County Public Schools athletics office said. Northwest High School also considers Quince Orchard, Damascus and Sherwood High School rivals.

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.

Northwest High School

9/3

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Damascus (Damascus, MD)
• Location: Northwest High School
• (W) 26 - 0

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Clarksburg (Clarksburg, MD)
• Location: Clarksburg High School

9/17

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Gaithersburg (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Northwest High School

9/24

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Richard Montgomery (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Richard Montgomery High School

10/1

• 6:30 vs. Walter Johnson (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Northwest High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Sherwood (Sandy Spring, MD)
• Location: Sherwood High School

10/15

• 7 p.m. vs. Seneca Valley (Germantown, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School

10/22

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Quince Orchard (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Northwest High School

10/29

• 7 p.m. vs. Whitman (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Whitman High School

Seneca Valley High School

9/3

• vs. Clarksburg (Clarksburg, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School
• (W) 33 - 6

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Gaithersburg (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Gaithersburg High School

9/17

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Richard Montgomery (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School

9/24

• 7 p.m. vs. Whitman (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Whitman High School

10/1

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Quince Orchard (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Quince Orchard High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Wootton (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School

10/15

• 7 p.m. vs. Northwest (Germantown, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School

10/22

• 7 p.m. vs. Walter Johnson (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Walter Johnson High School

10/29

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Damascus (Damascus, MD)
• Location: Seneca Valley High School