Week 1 of the 2022 high school football season is two months away.
Week 1 of the 2022 high school football season is two months away.
The Wilson Tigers will begin their seventh gridiron season September 2 on the road against the Graham-Dustin Chieftains and will add another ‘first-ever’ to their history books.
After suffering their first-ever winless season in 2021, the Tigers will find themselves in a different 8-team district during the next two seasons.
For the past four seasons, the Wilson gridiron squad has been part of District C-4.
For the next two years (2022, 2023), the Tigers will change districts for the first time in their football history, competing in District C-3.
The last two seasons saw the Wilson gridiron squad battle Graham-Dustin, Oaks-Mission, Midway, Coyle, Sasakwa, Bowlegs, and Maud in district action (Wilson did not play Sasakwa and Bowlegs in 2020 as those games were canceled due to COVID-19).
In the next two campaigns, the Tigers will still square off against Coyle and Oaks-Mission in district action, as they join Wilson in the new district. The other teams making up District C-3 for the next two seasons will be Copan, Bluejacket, South Coffeyville, and Wesleyan Christian, who were part of District C-3 the past two seasons, and Watts, who moves down from Class B for (at least) the next two years.
The Tigers’ first game in their new district will take place September 23 at Coyle. The first game against a new district foe will be two weeks later - October 7 - at Copan.
The first new district foe to come to Tiger Field will be Wesleyan Christian on October 14. The Bartlesville private school will be a familiar foe for the Wilson squad, as Wesleyan Christian was a non-district opponent in backto-back seasons - 2017 and 2018.
