TSSAA Moving Some High School Football Games to Thursday Due to Officials Shortage

Your favorite Tennessee high school football team will likely have to play one game on a Thursday night next fall. The TSSAA is  making the move because of a shortage of officials. They plan to identify roughly 20 games each week that will need to be moved to Thursday. The TSSAA hopes to inform schools by mid-march which game will be moved to Thursday.

From the TSSAA Board of Control meeting Monday:

“The Board also discussed football scheduling and the struggle it has been to have the officials needed to cover every game. The Board moved to permit the state office to identify approximately 20 games each week that schools would be required to play on Thursday so that all games each week can be satisfactorily covered. The state office must only reschedule one game for each school. This will be in place only for the 2022 season and a proposal for football scheduling in subsequent years will be presented at the next Board meeting. Schools will be informed by mid-March if they have a game that is moved and when that will be.”