High school football season is quickly approaching. With practice starting in early August and the season starting in early September, it's time for the Bayou Football Tour.
The Bayou Football Tour is 10 weeks long, with one Houma-Thibodaux area game picked each week of the regular season as the best for fans to attend.
With the regular season starting soon, here's the Bayou Football Tour:
Week 1: Thibodaux @ South Lafourche
The season gets started with this matchup of local teams that both made the LHSAA playoffs in 2023, one of just two Week 1 games involving two Houma-Thibodaux teams.
Week 2: Vandebilt Catholic @ John Ehret
While it's over an hour on the road, just to get to this game, the matchup between two teams that both won an LHSAA playoff game a season ago is just too good to pass up.
Week 3: South Lafourche @ Central Lafourche
Any high school football rivalry is big, and fans will be treated to an early rivalry game when the Fighting Tarpons take on the Trojans.
Week 4: A.J. Ellender @ E.D. White
District play gets underway this week, and while A.J. Ellender and E.D. White may not look great on paper, the Patriots could pull off one of the season's great upsets in Class 4A District 8 should they defeat the Cardinals.
Week 5: Destrehan @ Terrebonne
In what will almost certainly be one of the games to watch throughout Louisiana this week, the Tigers will try to defend home field against one of the state's top contenders.
Week 6: Archbishop Shaw @ St. James
Both of these schools made deep runs in the LHSAA playoffs in 2023, but they'll finally meet in the regular season in 2024.
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Week 7: H.L. Bourgeois @ Thibodaux
One of just three games between two local teams, the Braves may be able to play spoiler as the Tigers push towards the playoffs.
Week 8: Terrebonne @ H.L. Bourgeois
This rivalry game also serves as a district matchup in Class 5A District 8. It rarely gets better than this in the regular season.
Week 9: Assumption @ E.D. White
Both of these teams went deep in the 2023 LHSAA playoffs, and while both lost their star quarterbacks, this remains a tantalizing matchup nonetheless.
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Week 10: E.D. White @ Vandebilt Catholic
These two schools moved their rivalry game to the final week of the regular season, ensuring that all eyes will be on them.
This article originally appeared on The Courier: The Bayou Football Tour: The best Houma-Thibodaux high school football games of 2024
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