Atlanta-area schools delay the start of their high school football seasons by two games

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The Georgia high school football regular season will kick-off on September 4, but it will be without schools from Atlanta’s Fulton County. On Thursday, teams in Fulton County were informed that they will have to wait until the Week of September 14 for their first games.

Earlier this month, the Georgia High School Association announced that it was delaying the start of its 10-game regular regular season by two weeks to September 4, because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Fulton County announcement means that schools in the county will only play an eight-game schedule, instead of ten.

Fulton County’s Milton, the 2018 Georgia 7A champs, would have started the season ranked No. 91 in the Preseason High School Football America 100 had it been released as scheduled on June 29.

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.