Houston's Friday Night Slate: 91 High School Games Under the Lights, With Sterling's Shutout Streak on the Road at Stafford
The last Friday of October is a full one across the Houston area - 91 games on the MaxPreps scoreboard, a 7 p.m. kickoff almost everywhere, and one Raiders team that has not allowed a point in three weeks.
HOUSTON - Friday night in the Houston area means a scoreboard that barely fits on one page. MaxPreps lists 91 high school football games across the Houston region for Friday, October 30, the last Friday slate of October, with the featured fixtures kicking off at 7 p.m. across the city and its suburbs.
The verified fixtures span the region's football map. Sterling travels to Stafford; Stratford is at Alief Elsik; Clear Lake hosts Clear Springs in the Clear Creek rivalry's latest edition; St. Thomas Catholic hosts St. Michael's; Houston Christian hosts St. Mark's; and Northside is at HSI. Each was confirmed on its MaxPreps schedule page for Friday at 7 p.m.
Sterling's trip carries the slate's strangest number. The Raiders' schedule page shows three straight shutout wins coming into Friday - 64-0 over Northside on October 10, 72-0 at HSI on October 16, and 47-0 over Austin on October 23. Stafford, at home, is the next team asked to score on them.
Space City Daily's Sports Desk will file the Friday-night roundup after the finals, by 11:30 p.m., per the desk's standing duty sheet. Until the whistles blow at 7, the slate is the story: 91 games, one autumn Friday, and a region that treats it like a holiday.
