SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Week 7 of the New Jersey High School Football season is about to begin, and the Big Central Conference kicks off the action on Friday night this week. There are no games on Thursday night. There will be 21 games on Friday night, and another nine on Saturday afternoon. Thirty games in total involving all 59 BCC teams. Included in those games is one non-conference match-up.
All of the BCC games this week are crossover match-ups. Big Central Gridiron plans to cover at least three games this week. First, BCG will cover the BCC Crossover between Cranford and Colonia at Memorial Field in Cranford on Friday night. Then, on Saturday morning, BCG visits Brenner Family Field in Metuchen to see American Gold Champion, St. Joseph’s take on National Silver Champion, St. Thomas Aquinas in another BCC Crossover. Finally, on Saturday afternoon, BCG travels to Blairstown to take in a non-conference contest between Belvidere of the Freedom Silver Division and long-time neighborhood arch-rival, North Warren of the Super Football Conference.
Week 7 big match-ups include Piscataway hosting Hillsborough in another BCC Crossover contest between ranked teams at Kenny Armwood Stadium on Friday night. In another high-profile BCC crossover game on Friday, Plainfield will be hosting Somerville in a contest that will be broadcast on Big State Sports. One more key BCC Crossover match-up will be between Hunterdon Central and Old Bridge at Demarco Stadium in Lombardi Field. Both teams are fighting for a playoff spot.
Then on Saturday, Woodbridge travels up to Investors Bank Field at Tatlock Park in Summit to battle the hometown Hilltoppers. Westfield hosts Bridgewater-Raritan at Kehler Stadium in another important BCC crossover game between two schools vying for a state playoff berth.
Below are BCG’s Week 7 picks:
Big Central Gridiron’s Week 7 Picks
- Cranford over Colonia
- St. Thomas Aquinas over St. Joseph’s
- Belvidere over North Warren
- Somerville over Plainfield
- New Providence over Bound Brook
- Delaware Valley over Roselle
- Edison over South Brunswick
- Ridge over North Brunswick
- Phillipsburg over Union
- North Hunterdon over East Brunswick
- Franklin over Monroe
- Sayreville over Montgomery
- Hillsborough over Piscataway
- Old Bridge over Hunterdon Central
- Watchung Hills over Elizabeth
- Rahway over New Brunswick
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood over Perth Amboy
- Spotswood over South Hunterdon
- J.F. Kennedy over Middlesex
- A.L. Johnson over North Plainfield
- J.P. Stevens over Roselle Park
- Jonathan Dayton over Dunellen
- Hillside over Voorhees
- Linden over Carteret
- Manville over Highland Park
- Westfield over Bridgewater-Raritan
- Summit over Woodbridge
- Bernards over Governor Livingston
- South Plainfield over South River
- Metuchen over David Brearley
Big Central Gridiron went 25-6 in its Week 6 picks. BCG is now 174-41 overall on the season.
