SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Week 3 of the New Jersey High School Football season is about to begin, and the Big Central Conference kicks off the action on Thursday night. There will be a couple of Thursday night games in the BCC this week. There will be 25 games on Friday night followed up by three more on Saturday afternoon. Thirty games in total involving all 59 BCC teams.
Several of the games this week are key early-season divisional match-ups while there is an important non-conference battle involving Piscataway. BCG plans to cover the BCC Freedom Silver contest between Bound Brook and Jonathan Dayton from Lambertville on Friday night. Then, on Saturday afternoon, BCG travels to Investors Bank Field in Summit to see the Hilltoppers take on Carteret in a BCC United Gold contest.
Week 3 big match-ups include Phillipsburg at Ridge in a BCC American Silver Division clash from Lee Field on Friday night. In addition, Somerville hosts Rahway in a crucial BCC Liberty Silver showdown from Brooks Field. St. Joseph’s will take its 2-0 record into Williams Field in Elizabeth to battle the Minutemen in a key BCC American Gold match-up. Old Bridge visits South Brunswick in an important BCC National Gold game. Piscataway travels to Bergen County to take on Ridgewood in a key non-conference contest.
On Saturday, there are only three BCC games on the schedule. In addition to BCG’s coverage of Summit and Carteret, South River and Spotswood renew their annual rivalry when the Rams and Chargers face off at Sayreville High School. Colonia and Woodbridge will be having a rare Saturday afternoon game as the two schools renew their backyard brawl for Woodbridge Township and BCC Liberty Gold bragging rights.
Below are BCG’s Week 3 picks:
Big Central Gridiron’s Week 3 Picks
- Belvidere over Dunellen
- New Providence over Metuchen
- South Hunterdon over Bound Brook
- Phillipsburg over Ridge
- Ridgewood over Piscataway
- Woodbridge over Colonia
- Somerville over Rahway
- Hunterdon Central over Bridgewater-Raritan
- Hillsborough over Sayreville
- Bernards over Voorhees
- St. Thomas Aquinas over Franklin
- North Brunswick over Edison
- St. Joseph’s over Elizabeth
- Westfield over Union
- South Brunswick over Old Bridge
- Watchung Hills over Linden
- Plainfield over Perth Amboy
- Hillside over Scotch Plains-Fanwood
- Montgomery over North Hunterdon
- Monroe over East Brunswick
- Cranford over South Plainfield
- A.L. Johnson over Roselle
- J.F. Kennedy over New Brunswick
- Governor Livingston over North Plainfield
- Delaware Valley over J.P. Stevens
- Middlesex over Manville
- Highland Park over David Brearley
- Jonathan Dayton over Roselle Park
- Summit over Carteret
- Spotswood over South River
Big Central Gridiron went 25-5 in its Week 2 picks. BCG is now 74-20 overall on the season.
