Every year, for the past 16 years, I have looked ahead at the season schedule to create a menu of sorts — a menu for Big Country football connoisseurs to choose their weekly helping of Friday night pigskin. 

History has proven that this isn’t an exact science, and the further out we go from Week 1, the more difficult this endeavor becomes. Nonetheless, I cannot resist a peek at my crystal ball — smudged as it may be.