SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Another Big Central Conference season is upon us. Thursday night starts the fifth year of BCC football. Big Central Gridiron is back for its fourth official year. Week 0 is the opening weekend of the 2024 New Jersey High School football season, and many BCC teams are in action.
BCG plans to cover at least one game this week before going on a Labor Day Holiday vacation. There are exactly 30 games on the Week 0 schedule with twelve on Thursday night, fifteen on Friday night, and three on Saturday. A total of 40 BCC teams will be in action.
Week 0 big match-ups include Hillsborough at Somerville and Woodbridge at Old Bridge on Thursday night. Union travels over to Seton Hall Prep to start action on Friday afternoon in West Orange. Meanwhile, in the other part of West Orange, Hillside will be facing Snyder in the Mountaineer Classic.
On Saturday, North Hunterdon visits Hunterdon Central while St. Thomas Aquinas travels down to Wilmington, Delaware to face off against Mount St. Joseph’s of Baltimore in the Mid-Atlantic Pigskin Classic. Below are BCG’s Week 0 picks:
Big Central Gridiron’s Week 0 Picks
- Metuchen over Middlesex
- Perth Amboy over J.F. Kennedy
- Edison over East Brunswick
- Woodbridge over Old Bridge
- St. John Vianney over Carteret
- Freehold Boro over New Brunswick
- Sayreville over Colonia
- South Brunswick over Robbinsville
- South Plainfield over New Providence
- Wood-Ridge over Spotswood
- Hillsborough over Somerville
- Hunterdon Central over North Hunterdon
- Notre Dame over Bridgewater-Raritan
- Keyport over Manville
- Jackson Memorial over North Brunswick
- Montgomery over Hopewell Valley
- Rahway over Voorhees
- Bernards over Monmouth Regional
- Watchung Hills over Moorestown
- Delran over Roselle
- Lakeland Regional over Governor Livingston
- Seton Hall Prep over Union
- Boonton over Belvidere
- Linden over Elizabeth
- Franklin over Trenton
- Piscataway over Manalapan
- Point Pleasant Beach over South River
- Dunellen over Montclair-Kimberley
- Mount St. Joseph over St. Thomas Aquinas
- Hillside over Snyder
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood over Monroe
- Plainfield over Newark East Side
