Drum roll please. The start of the 2025 South Dakota High School football season is only a couple of days away.

A majority of the state's Class 11B and nine-man (Class 9AA, 9A and 9B) teams are set to kick off their seasons on Friday, Aug. 22.

Here's a look at the 22 games involving Watertown and Aberdeen area teams (all times are Central):

Friday

Sioux Valley at St. Thomas More, 6 p.m. — Here's an interesting matchup right off the bat in Class 11B with No. 2-rated Sioux Valley (:11-1 in 2024) visiting No. 4 St. Thomas More (8-3). Sioux Valley finished as the state runner-up last fall and have a new head coach in Jordan Fast.

Gettysburg at Harding County-Bison, 7 p.m. — The Potter County co-op between Gettysburg and Hoven has been dissolved. The Battlers were 0-8 last fall and o

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