Morristown Football Reclassified for 2015 Season

The regular season opponents will remain the same, but come playoff time, the Morristown Colonials football team could see a different type of competition.

Heading into the 2015 season, which officially kicks off on the road Sept. 3 against Elizabeth, the team has been moved from the Section II, Group IV category to the Section I, Group V category.

Decades-old rivalries against the likes of Central, Randolph, Delbarton and other county teams will remain the same, thanks to the team’s inclusion to the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, but the team may see unknown competition in the playoffs.

The full list of teams in the Section I, Group V category include:

• Bergen Tech
• Bloomfield
• Clifton
• Hackensack
• Livingston
• Memorial
• Montclair
• Morristown
• North Bergen
• Passaic
• Passaic Tech
• Paterson Eastside
• Paterson Kennedy
• Ridgewood
• Union City
• West Orange

Morristown’s full season schedule for 2015 is:

• Thursday, Sept. 3, 4 p.m., Elizabeth, Away
• Friday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m., Montville, Away
• Saturday, Sept. 19, 1 p.m., Randolph, Home
• Friday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m., Mount Olive, Away
• Saturday, Oct. 3, 1 p.m., Roxbury, Home
• Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m., Mendham, Away
• Saturday, Oct. 17, 1 p.m., Central, Home
• Saturday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m., Morris Knolls, Away
• Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m., Delbarton, Away
• Saturday, Nov. 7, 1 p.m., Chatham, Home

Playoffs in New Jersey begin the weekend of Nov. 13 and 14.