The 2018 Vermont high school football season will start August 31. The Vermont Interscholastic Football League has released its eight week regular season high school football schedules that includes a rematch of the Division I championship game in Week 1.
Defending champ St. Johnsbury Academy will play Hartford on September 1. SJA beat Hartford, which won the 2016 Division I title, 33-32 to capture the school’s first state title since 1994. The title landed St. Johnsbury at the top of the High School Football America Vermont Top 5. SJA and Hartford have played for the last two Division I championships.
Burlington and South Burlington have been combined into a co-op team, while Mount St. Joseph and Poultney have ended their co-op to return to having separate teams. Oxbow returns to varsity play this season.
The state championships will be played November 10.
Below is the week-by-week schedule:
WEEK 1
August 31
Games at 7 p.m.
Middlebury at Colchester
Essex at Burlington-South Burlington
Rutland at Brattleboro
Mount Anthony at Fair Haven
BFA-Fairfax at Springfield
Spaulding at Bellows Falls
Lyndon at Woodstock
September 1
Games at 1 p.m.
Mount Mansfield at Rice
Hartford at St. Johnsbury
BFA-St. Albans at Champlain Valley
Milton at Otter Valley
Oxbow at Mill River
North Country at Burr and Burton
U-32 at Mount Abraham
Missisquoi at Windsor
Mount St. Joseph at Poultney
WEEK 2
September 7
Games at 7 p.m.
Colchester at Brattleboro
Hartford at Middlebury
North Country at Milton
Mount Mansfield at BFA-St. Albans
Mill River at Springfield
St. Johnsbury at Essex
Burr and Burton at U-32
Otter Valley at Fair Haven
Mount Abraham at Mount Anthony
Champlain Valley at Rutland
September 8
Games at 1 p.m.
Burlington-South Burlington at Rice
Woodstock at BFA-Fairfax
Spaulding at Oxbow
Bellows Falls at Lyndon
Windsor at Poultney
Missisquoi at Mount St. Joseph
WEEK 3
September 14
Games at 7 p.m.
BFA-St. Albans at Rutland
Colchester at Burlington-South Burlington
Mount Anthony at North Country
Rice at Hartford
Champlain Valley at Essex
Oxbow at Woodstock
Windsor at Milton
Otter Valley at Mount Abraham
September 15
Games at 1 p.m. or as noted
Middlebury at St. Johnsbury
Bellows Falls at Burr and Burton
Fair Haven at Lyndon
Poultney at BFA-Fairfax
Mill River at Missisquoi
Springfield at Mount St. Joseph
Brattleboro at Mount Mansfield, 3 p.m.
U-32 at Spaulding, 6 p.m.
WEEK 4
September 21
Games at 7 p.m.
Middlebury at BFA-St. Albans
Mount Mansfield at Essex
Rutland at Hartford
Mount Anthony at Milton
Champlain Valley at Colchester
Burr and Burton at Fair Haven
Otter Valley at U-32
Brattleboro at Burlington-South Burlington
Spaulding at North Country
Lyndon at Mount Abraham
September 22
Games at 1 p.m. or as noted
Woodstock at Missisquoi
Springfield at Bellows Falls
St. Johnsbury at Rice
Poultney at Mill River
BFA-Fairfax at Windsor, 2 p.m.
Mount St. Joseph at Oxbow, 2 p.m.
WEEK 5
September 28
Games at 7 p.m.
St. Johnsbury at Brattleboro
Rutland at Middlebury
Lyndon at Mount Anthony
U-32 at North Country
Hartford at BFA-St. Albans
Burr and Burton at Spaulding
Mount Abraham at Milton
September 29
Games at 1 p.m.
Burlington-South Burlington at Champlain Valley
Springfield at Missisquoi
Essex at Rice
Fair Haven at Poultney
Woodstock at Mill River
Bellows Falls at Otter Valley
BFA-Fairfax at Mount St. Joseph
Oxbow at Windsor
WEEK 6
October 5
Games at 7 p.m.
Essex at Colchester
U-32 at Fair Haven
Brattleboro at Hartford
Poultney at Woodstock
Middlebury at Burr and Burton
Missisquoi at Spaulding
Oxbow at Springfield
Rice at Rutland
October 6
Games at 1 p.m. or as noted
Burlington-South Burlington at Mount Mansfield
North Country at Champlain Valley, 3 p.m.
Milton at Lyndon
Mount St. Joseph at Windsor
BFA-Fairfax at Mill River
BFA-St. Albans at St. Johnsbury
Mount Abraham at Bellows Falls, 3:30 p.m.
Mount Anthony at Otter Valley, 3 p.m.
WEEK 7
October 12
Games at 7 p.m.
Colchester at BFA-St. Albans
Brattleboro at Mount Anthony
Burlington-South Burlington at Middlebury
Essex at Rutland
Fair Haven at Bellows Falls
Rice at U-32
Mount Mansfield at Hartford
Windsor at Springfield
October 13
Games at 1 p.m.
Milton at Burr and Burton
North Country at Mount Abraham
Missisquoi at BFA-Fairfax
St. Johnsbury at Champlain Valley
Woodstock at Mount St. Joseph
Poultney at Oxbow
Mill River at Otter Valley
Spaulding at Lyndon
WEEK 8
October 19
Games at 7 p.m.
BFA-St. Albans at Brattleboro
Rutland at Burlington-South Burlington
Hartford at Essex
Bellows Falls at U-32
Burr and Burton at Mount Anthony
Otter Valley at North Country
Champlain Valley at Middlebury
Windsor at Woodstock
Milton at Spaulding
Rice at Colchester
October 20
Games at 1 p.m.
Fair Haven at Mount Mansfield
Mount Abraham at BFA-Fairfax
Lyndon at St. Johnsbury
Missisquoi at Oxbow
Mill River at Mount St. Joseph
Springfield at Poultney
