For the fourteen remaining Prep football teams from all across the State of Georgia there is no place like the Georgia Dome this upcoming weekend here in December. It is almost title time! The grueling seventeen week regular season and playoff schedule of games for the 2015 season is almost at an end, and the seven Prep football titles for Class A Private and Public, and Class AA through Class AAAAAA, will be decided this Friday and Saturday in Atlanta.

It takes a lot of skill, much hard work, and a little luck in some cases for these fourteen teams to arrive a this point in a season which began back in late July and Early August.That’s not counting the year-round weight and speed training, spring football practice and summer seven-on-seven passing leagues.

The endless hard work and team tenacity has paid huge dividends, and it is almost that hour of decision for these teams. We will soon see who wins and celebrates, or who loses and looks forward to 2016?

The festivities get underway this Friday afternoon at 1:00PM, when the Irwin County Indians of Ocilla meet the Clinch County Panthers of Homerville for the Class A Public division title. These two foes are very familiar with each other for they play in same Region 2-A in South Georgia.

Irwin County, last year’s runner up to Hawkinsville, is back for another shot at the title and will have to beat Clinch County for the second time this season to accomplish that feat. The Indians won the first meeting during the regular season, 28-12.

The remainder of Friday’s schedule features top-notch teams as well. In the second game of the day, it’s Blessed Trinity and Westminster, two teams who have fought and clawed their way to the finals. Blessed Trinity eliminated defending champion Calhoun in a nail-biter and Westminster played road warriors to reach this week’s Class AAA finals.

In the final game of day one action, in Class AAAAA it’s the Glynn Academy Red Terrors facing off against Allatoona at 8:30. Glynn Academy defeated Region 3-AAAAA foe Ware County to advance and Allatoona topped powerful Northgate at home.

There are four games slated for Saturday in the 2015 GHSA finals. At 10:00AM on Saturday morning, Eagles Landing Christian Academy returns to the Georgia Dome for the second straight year, and will meet Aquinas of Augusta, a team who played in the Class A Private finals in 2013.

Then at 1:00PM it’s the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricane and Pace Academy for all of the marbles in Class AA. Fitzgerald and Pace Academy had to play most of their playoff games on the road, since Fitzgerald was a two-seed out of Region 1-AA and Pace Academy was the fourth-seeded team from tough Region 6-AA.

The third game of a busy Saturday schedule, finds perennial power Buford meeting Cartersville for the top prize in Class AAAA. Buford is once-beaten at 13-1, while Cartersville is perfect at 14-0 heading into the Dome.

The weekend final features defending champion Colquitt County, 14-0 and unbeaten Roswell, also 14-0 in a battle of top-ranked teams. Roswell ended the regular season ranked at number three in most statewide polls and has now moved into national prominence as well in recent weeks with their playoff performances.

The Colquitt County Packers were number one at the end of the regular prep season and have now moved up to the number two-ranked team in the nation in the latest polls.

Two days, fourteen teams, and some of the best prep football games in the nation.

It’s all in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta this Friday and Saturday. Don’t miss it!