THOMASVILLE – Thomas County Central’s football season is a little more than six months away, and the Yellow Jackets are still searching for a tenth game.

Head coach Justin Rogers confirmed that Chiles (Fla.) has opted out of its agreement that would have pitted the two teams against each other during the second week in September. That has left the Yellow Jackets second-year coach scrambling for a replacement game.

“It’s a terrible time trying to find a game, because we’re in the middle of a cycle. Chiles dropped us and said they didn’t want to play again. I’ve reached out to the principal over there and trying everything to try to hold on to that agreement they had. They chose not to honor it. With it being two different states, there’s not a whole lot you can do,” Rogers said. “In Georgia everything’s set for a two-year cycle, so there’s very few schools that are looking for a game and an even smaller number that are looking for a game that has a date you have.

“There’s some opportunities but all of them are on the road, about 4.5 hours away. I don’t know that we really want to jump on that. We’re still looking at some possibilities.”

Those potential options are not confined to Georgia, either.

“Georgia is the hardest one to find. All of those agreements are pretty much being held. I’ve got one really good possibility in Georgia that I hope works out but I don’t know yet,” Rogers said. “If not, we’re obviously looking at a bunch of Florida opportunities.

“The worst case scenario is you play nine. We’ve got five home games. That’s a good thing, regardless. Chiles was supposed to be our sixth home game this year. We’re just looking at all of those options. By the end of this month, we should have that figured out what we’re going to do.”

Central’s home games next year include Thomasville, Godby (Fla.), Tift County, Lee County and Northside-Warner Robins.

One downside, though, is if Central only plays nine games, it will have back-to-back open weeks on Sept. 8 and 15.

“You want to stay sharp, so without question, we want to stay away from that possibility,” Rogers said. “But again you always have to acknowledge what’s the worst case scenario for anything you do in your life. We acknowledge that’s the worst case, but hopefully we can get something worked out that fills one of those two weeks.”