High School Football Begins in South Carolina

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Posted By: Jeff Fisher July 28, 2018

South Carolina joined the growing list of states that are starting their 2018 fall high school football camps over the next two weeks. Friday was the first official day of practice across the state.

For the first two days, players only wear helmets. Pads are added on Days 3 and 4. The first day in full gear will be Wednesday.

The season begins with two teams ranked highly in the High School Football America Preseason 100 — two-time defending and 2017 5A champ Dutch Fork at No. 25 and four-time defending state champ and 2017 4A champ South Pointe at No. 35. Five teams received honorable mention, meaning they are ranked between No. 126 and No. 225. They are: Boiling Springs, Dorman, T.L. Hanna, Northwestern and Spartanburg.

Related: South Carolina 2018 schedules

The regular season begins the weekend of August 16th with the postseason beginning November 2. The state championship games will be played November 30 and December 1.

To celebrate the first day of football, below you’ll find tweets from the Twitter-sphere celebrating the opening of camps.

First up in Dutch Fork head coach Tom Knotts who will lead the Silver Foxes into their season opener against North Carolina’s Mallard Creek, ranked No. 44 in our Preseason 100.

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Jeff Fisher
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.

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