Ford City again opens up the season with a non-section game. Ford City will probably use their normally non-section opponent strategy, coach-to-win-games-that-count. Ford City won't care about the result, all their care about is hosting Shady Side the next week at home. Plus they'll be at home against Willmington so they get up nice an early the next day to watch SSA versus Freeport.
Pre-season rankings are normally very useless, but everyone seems to think SSA will be the team to beat in the section. I'm not sure how you can call them the team to beat when they have only won 6 section games in the last 3 years, so their is still a lot to prove. So lets just say SSA should be in the playoff mix. Well Ford City gets them at home, instead of away on Saturday. Big plus for FC. They also they host Valley in Ford Cliff, and Valley for the last couple of years have been FC's biggest challenge. The only negative about the schedule is they might have their hardest games in the opening half, not appealing to a team replacing a lot of starters. However they will host 5 home game in total this year including 2 or 3 down in their final games.
Kittanning might even have a more appealing schedule as they open at home and play 4 of their first 5 games at home. Kittanning's home schedule includes, Ford City, SSA, & Burrell, which should help the Cats. Opening up against Deer Lakes should also help and their toughest road game might be at Valley. However 5 home games including 3 against likely playoff challengers should help.
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