The only schools in the state not in a league are: Allegany, Fort Hill, Mountain Ridge, Northern Garrett, Southern Garrett, Boonsboro, Clear Spring, Hancock, North Hagerstown, Smithsburg, South Hagerstown, Williamsport, Westminster, Brunswick, SEED, Silver Oak, Eastern Christian, Capitol Christian, Maryland School for the Deaf, Riverdale Baptist and Avalon
Every other school has between 4 and 10 guaranteed games each year. Scheduling isn't easy, it has to fit into both schools' existing schedule, make financial sense, keep a good home/away balance and with MPSSAA schools it has to make sense with the playoff formula as well. Most 3A/4A schools don't want to play 1A/2A schools because of the loss of playoff points.
Finding 3 replacement games (Brunswick for Clearfield, Hollidaysburg for Chestnut Ridge and Fairmont Heights for Archbishop Curley/BYE Week) in an off cycle scheduling year (most MPSSAA and MIAA schools sign 2-year home-and-home contracts after reclassification, so in this case for the 2015 AND 2016 seasons) is incredibly hard.
Almost every school in the state will play the exact same schedule as last year, just with home and away flipped. The only reason Fairmont Heights was even a possibility was because Forestville closed and created 10 openings on schedules that weren't there before. The only other even potential Week 6 openings that I have are Lake Clifton, a 1A Baltimore City school that could barely field a team last year and New Town, a 1A Baltimore County school that couldn't go .500 in an awful league.
Ask Good Counsel how hard it is to find games in an off cycle scheduling year. They lost 3 games as well and their replacement games are ALL on the road, meaning that GC will play SIX STRAIGHT WEEKS on the road to open the season before their home opener in Week 7. They only have 3 total home games.
I can't imagine the complaining on here if Fort Hill played "quality" opponents on the road six weeks in a row and only had 3 games at Greenway.
All-in-all Todd did a great job of getting you guys 10 games without an absurd number of road games. At the end of the day, it's about the kids, and I believe that each HS football player should have the opportunity to play a full 10 game season. Fort Hill gets their 10 games this year.