Ruden Sports News

On the day the Connecticut High School Football Alliance revealed its 122-game schedule, featuring 132 schools representing all eight state high school football leagues and one independent, the biggest FCIAC news came internally from the league’s great northwest.

Wilton and Ridgefield, neighboring rivals that last year missed playing each other for the second time in three seasons, will now meet on Thanksgiving.

To make it happen, Danbury, the Tigers’ previous holiday opponent, will now face ATI. And the Hatters and Ridgefield, who both wanted to continue to play each other, will meet in the fourth week of the season.

All of the alliance games featuring FCIAC schools will be held during the second and fourth weeks of the season. Class L champion New Canaan, the reigning No. 1 team in the state, will host Fairfield Prep in the second week and travel to New Britain on the fourth week.

Class LL champion Greenwich travels to New Britain in week two and hosts Newtown in week four.

The alliance is in its ninth year. The second week matchups were determined based on the teams’ final CIAC playoff finish last season.

Here is the FCIAC alliance schedule.

Week 2

• Fairfield Prep at New Canaan
• Greenwich at New Britain
• Enfield at Fairfield Ludlowe
• Ridgefield at Maloney
• Darien at NFA
• Staples at South Windsor
• West Haven at Norwalk
• Farmington at Fairfield Warde
• Trumbull at Crosby
• McMahon at Manchester
• Bassick at Stamford
• Westhill at Wilbur Cross
• Wilby at Bridgeport Central
• Windsor at St. Joseph
• Berlin at Wilton

Week 4

• Bridgeport Central at Bassick
• Westhill at Harding
• Shelton at Trumbull
• Norwalk at Notre Dame-West Haven
• Newtown at Greenwich
• New Canaan at New Britain
• Cheshire at Staples
• Fairfield Ludlowe at West Haven
• Manchester at Darien
• St. Joseph at Glastonbury
• Wilton at Southington
• Hillhouse at Brien McMahon
• Fairfield Warde at Amity Regional
• Stamford at Stratford