If you’ve been around high school football programs for long enough and haven’t heard some variation of the following phrase: “We just won’t know for sure until those lights get turned on Week 1,” you haven’t been listening hard enough.

Week 1 of the high school football season is when the answers to literally thousands of questions begin to get answered for programs all around the state.

Is the new quarterback ready for the role? Is the rebuilt secondary going to hold up over the course of the season? Do we have enough depth? Where might a team be better than they thought? Where are the big issues that need to be resolved?

Week 1 can’t make or break your season. But it shows you where the foundation of things are and how much repair it might need in order to get where teams hope to be.

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