The Big Central Football Conference is a football-only athletic league of high schools in Central New Jersey. The 60-team league was formed in 2020.[1]
History
The Big Central consists of the members of the former Mid-State 38 Conference and the football programs from the Greater Middlesex Conference, including public and private high school football teams in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties.[2]
Divisions
For the 2021 season, there are a total of ten divisions of the Big Central Football Conference, with teams divided by size and location;[3]
- Division 1A
- David Brearley High School
- Bound Brook High School
- Middlesex High School
- New Providence High School
- Roselle Park High School
- Division 1B
- Belvidere High School
- Jonathan Dayton High School
- Dunellen High School
- Highland Park High School
- Manville High School
- South Hunterdon Regional High School
- Division 2A
- Bernards High School
- Hillside High School
- Delaware Valley High School
- Governor Livingston High School
- North Plainfield High School
- Voorhees High School
- Division 2B
- Abraham Clark High School
- St. Thomas Aquinas High School
- Arthur L. Johnson High School
- Metuchen High School
- South River High School
- Spotswood High School
- Division 3
- Carteret High School
- Rahway High School
- Somerville High School
- South Plainfield High School
- Summit High School
- Warren Hills Regional High School
- Division 4
- Colonia High School
- Cranford High School
- John F. Kennedy Memorial High School
- Linden High School
- Montgomery High School
- North Hunterdon High School
- Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
- Woodbridge High School
- Division 5A
- Elizabeth High School
- Plainfield High School
- Union High School
- Watchung Hills Regional High School
- Westfield High School
- Division 5B
- Bridgewater-Raritan High School
- Hunterdon Central Regional High School
- Franklin High School
- Hillsborough High School
- Phillipsburg High School
- Ridge High School
- Division 5C
- East Brunswick High School
- Monroe Township High School
- Old Bridge High School
- Perth Amboy High School
- South Brunswick High School
- J. P. Stevens High School
- Division 5D