Tune in Friday at 3 p.m. for the first “Your Hometown Tailgate” episode of the season. Blaze and Aaron will be live from Fallin’s BBQ in Thomasville previewing matchups across the area. THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WALB) — Colquitt County and Thomas County Central will meet Friday night for the first time in 14 years, renewing a matchup between two of South Georgia’s most decorated high school football programs. The teams are separated by less than 30 miles of highway. The last meeting between the two programs came in 2012, when the Packers won 35-33. Colquitt County head coach Sean Calhoun called it an opportunity to face “arguably the hottest program in Georgia the last 5 years.” “I think they’re 35th in the country, I think 5th in all classifications, probably could be arguably number one,” Calhoun said. “So yeah, all things aside, we want to be 1 and 0. We’d love to be 10-0. To have a chance to beat a team like this, it’d mean the world to us.” Thomas County Central head coach Justin Rogers led Colquitt County from 2019 to 2021. Calhoun succeeded Rogers at Colquitt County. Rogers said the focus for his team is on maintaining the program’s standard. “I think the only thing you talk about is not necessarily last year, but in the last four years and just understand that you need to maintain a standard,” Rogers said. “And not just the last four years, this school’s history of how good they’ve been here. Making sure we are holding up our end of the standard. You don’t inherit wins. You…
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