09/18/2020
Football will hold six regular-season games over a seven available dates so that a bye week included.
For safety reasons, the first two games would be played on Feb. 22 (Monday) and Feb. 27 (Saturday). The rest of the dates would fall on Fridays (March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2).
Schools can schedule six Friday night football games if they so choose.
District tournaments would be allowed and not count against the regular-season limit. Teams not participating in region tournaments will be allowed to schedule one additional game that must be completed by region deadline. That’s why the VHSL is calling its plans “Championships +1” postseason format.
The Virginia High School League's Executive Committee approved Thursday the regular-season, regional and state tournament schedule for the 2020-21 academic year.