Bison football schedules released

LINCOLN -- The Nebraska Schools Activities Association (NSAA) announced schedules for the state's high school football teams.

Schedules for the 2010 and 2011 seasons were made public Wednesday afternoon by the NSAA.

McCook High School traded two teams on the 2010-11 schedules. The Bison will compete in the four-team Class B-7 District. which includes long-time rivals Lexington and Holdrege, plus Adams Central. The Patriots replace Ogallala in the district, as the Indians are dropping to Class C-1 for the next two years. Ogallala will not be on the McCook schedule the next two seasons.

The Bison also swap Hastings for Grand Island Northwest. McCook will visit Northwest next fall in the fifth game of the season, and the Vikings will come to McCook for the fifth game of the 2011 campaign.

Defending Class B state champion Aurora remains on the McCook slate the next two years. The Bison will visit Aurora next fall in the second game of the season, and host the Huskies in the second game of the 2011 season.

McCook will continue to play the four Nebraska panhandle Class B squads -- Alliance, Gering, Scottsbluff and Sidney.

Next fall will be favorable for the Bison, with three of the four teams -- Scottsbluff, Alliance and Gering -- coming to McCook on three of the first four weeks of the schedule. The Bison will also trek to Sidney for the sixth game of the 2010 season the week after the trip to Northwest.

But 2011 will be a different story. McCook will face long road trips to three of the four panhandle teams in the first four weeks of the season. Each Bison trek to the panhandle will be close to 500 miles round trip. The Bison will also visit Lexington and Holdrege at the end of the 2011 campaign, sandwiched around a home date with Adams Central for the eighth game of the year.

Here are the 2010 and 2011 McCook High School football schedules (each Friday date is tentative, and those games could possibly be moved to a Thursday or Saturday):

BISON FOOTBALL

2010 Schedule

Friday, Aug. 27..........Scottsbluff, home

Friday, Sept. 3............at Aurora

Friday, Sept. 10..........Alliance, home

Friday, Sept. 17..........Gering, home

Friday, Sept. 24..........at Grand Island Northwest

Friday, Oct. 1 .............at Sidney

Friday, Oct. 8 ..............Lexington, home

Friday, Oct. 15............at Adams Central

Friday, Oct. 22............Holdrege, home

2011 Schedule

Friday, Aug. 26...........at Scottsbluff

Friday, Sept. 2............Aurora, home

Friday, Sept. 9............at Alliance

Friday, Sept. 16..........at Gering

Friday, Sept. 23..........Grand Island Northwest, home

Friday, Sept. 30..........Sidney, home

Friday, Oct. 7..............at Lexington

Friday, Oct. 14............Adams Central, home

Friday, Oct. 21............at Holdrege