The Caldwell County Tiger football team will kick off the 2020 season on Sept. 11 by hosting longtime border rival Crittenden County.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association announced on Tuesday that fall sports will be played, but everything except golf will get a delayed start.
For football, preseason scrimmages and the first three weeks of the season are now gone. However, the regular season has been extended one week, giving schools nine weeks to play nine regular-season contests.
Caldwell lost road games at Christian County and Owensboro Apollo, along with its scheduled home opener Sept. 4 against Hopkinsville.
However, the Tigers moved quickly on Tuesday to finish up their 2020 slate of games.
Christian County, which was to be the season opener Aug. 21 at the Stadium of Champions in Hopkinsville, made its way back onto the revamped schedule for the Tigers.
Caldwell will now go to Christian County on Nov. 6 to finish up the regular season against the Colonels.
Caldwell’s original schedule had a bye week for Oct. 23. However, that date will now bring a trip to Madisonville-North Hopkins. The Tigers and Maroons had been scheduled to scrimmage each other Aug. 7 in Princeton.
It will be Caldwell’s first trip to Madisonville for a regular season game since a 37-29 setback to the Maroons in 2008.
The KHSAA Board of Control will meet again Aug. 20 to re-evaluate the situation.
But as it stands right now, Caldwell football has a nine-game schedule with four home games and five road dates.
After opening Sept. 11 against Crittenden County, the Tigers will visit Union County the following week.
Caldwell’s first district game is Sept. 25 when Ballard Memorial visits Tiger Stadium. That’s the first of four straight district games. The Tigers will go to Mayfield on Oct. 2 and are scheduled to travel to Fort Campbell Oct. 9 before hosting Murray on Oct. 16.
The trip to Madisonville goes into the Oct. 23 slot that had been the bye week.
Trigg County visits Tiger Stadium on Oct. 30 to continue the longest-running rivalry on both teams’ schedules.
Then the regular season ends with the Tigers going to Christian County on Nov. 6.
The playoffs will begin the following week and will run for five weeks as usual, but the state finals in Lexington have been pushed back a week to Dec. 11 and 12.
