Hardest Schedules in Virginia 2025

[DinwiddieProud]

Varina start the season off with William Fleming and Maury

Is Maury the same ole unbeatable Maury?

 

[BoKnowsSports]

Is Maury the same ole unbeatable Maury?

Lots of young guys but they are absolutely loaded.

 

[Phoebus Fan]

Is Maury the same ole unbeatable Maury?

They will take a step back this year but still most likely got unbeaten and win state title. I don't know who they play out of conference but they will beat everyone in their district by 35+.

 

[SFUWO]

Who does Salem play in Blue Ridge? I guess they are not playing Northside?

Roanoke County schools are slowly dropping Salem. I would bet Cave Spring and Hidden Valley would drop too if they were not in River Ridge

 

[SFUWO]

They will take a step back this year but still most likely got unbeaten and win state title. I don't know who they play out of conference but they will beat everyone in their district by 35+.

Salem will scrimmage them this yr. Can't put much into a scrimmage though

 

[springer76]

Let’s hear them!

So far for me:

1. Dinwiddie hands down with Salem, Highland Springs, and Granby.

2. Varina has Maury and has another big time opponent (I don’t think they’ve made it public yet).

3. GW Danville. SHEEESH! Reidsville, Botty, Glass, and Amherst. May be the toughest schedule Danville has had in 20 years.

HSHS opens with Hopewell, Dinwiddie and nationally ranked Hough HS out of NC. We're supposed to play Maury in Norfolk. Not to mention Varina.

 

[CrushBlock]

Roanoke County schools are slowly dropping Salem. I would bet Cave Spring and Hidden Valley would drop too if they were not in River Ridge

What has happened to Roanoke lately?

since I have been paying attention 00 to now,

Seems like from 2000 to 2015 basically all greater Roanoke valley teams you can think of had 3-4 seasons of deep playoff potential.

 

[CrushBlock]

The real answer to the question is the Andrew Lewis B team. They are all 7th graders and play everyone elses 8th grade team. Anytime, anyplace!

I started A team as a seventh grader.

You could say I didnt have much of a B team career

 

[Virginia HS Football Fan]

Glass plays Salem, GW, Heritage, LCA, Jefferson Forest and Amherst. Those teams should be solid this year.

That is STOUT! If they can somehow sneak into the playoffs, then people can't say that they weren't battle tested.

 

[Virginia HS Football Fan]

Louisa! 🤣🤣

That Jefferson District really helps them doesn't it? 🤣

 

[Virginia HS Football Fan]

The program that the VHSL, and all of the schools use to officially post schedules is called rSchool.

Often, the AD’s send their schedules to their District official and it sometimes gets posted early on the District website, (which is almost always the rSchool based format).

Schedules are not secret squirrel stuff, so often an email to an AD will get you a schedule.
Of course, if a school hasn’t locked down their schedules, it’s hard to pry what the schedule MIGHT be out of an AD or other school official. Understandably.

The deadline for AD’s to submit their schedules to the League office is May 1. But, a lot has to happen before the schedules can be posted. First, every year there are always schools that have not submitted their schedules and the League has to deal with that. Secondly, the League has an intense system of cross checking and correlating the schedules of over 315 Virginia schools, and that doesn’t include a good many private schools and a large number of out of state schools.

The simplest mistakes on the schedules, which are innocent, but numerous, often take the most effort to resolve. For instance, two opponents may have shown that they are both at home. Or one team list Thursday for the game, or the other shows Friday. Or one schedule shows game time to be 6:30, but the opponent shows 7:00.

And then you can throw in the occasional team or two that suddenly decides that they are not going to field a team and that leaves their opponents scrambling to find an opponent at the last minute.

It’s a maddening job. And that’s when things go well. Which is seldom.

So if we see the official schedule before the 4th of July, I’ll be pleased.

I certainly hope that schools choosing to not field teams or schools having the foresight to realize that not fielding a team is plausible have already reached out to schools on their schedules and told them to go ahead and find someone else to take their place.

I know we don't see this really happening in the Class 4 level, but there are schools out there who have to scramble with just a few weeks heads up to try to find opponents.

If we had either a separation of activities from athletics within the VHSL and had athletics people running the athletics side of the house, then maybe we could get a drop-dead date on when schools should declare if they are going to field a team or not.