Nationally ranked Corner Canyon, Pickerington Central highlight ESPN High School Football Kickoff

Getting the GEICO ESPN High School Football Kickoff schedule finalized is never easy for the Paragon Marketing Group, but it's especially tough during a pandemic. Despite challenges, the show will go on and the schedule is set for the 11th annual event that starts on Friday and features seven games, four defending state champions and a pair of current MaxPreps Top 25 teams.

Here is the complete schedule (all times Eastern):

7 p.m. – St. Paul's Episcopal (Mobile, Ala.) vs. Spanish Fort (Ala.), ESPN

10 p.m. – No. 14 Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah) vs. Bingham (South Jordan, Utah), ESPN

Noon – Trinity Christian (Cedar Hill, Texas) vs. Knoxville Catholic (Knoxville, Tenn.), ESPN

3 p.m. – Bentonville West (Centerton, Ark.) vs. Broken Arrow (Okla.), ESPN

6 p.m. – St. Xavier (Cincinnati, Ohio) vs. Brownsburg (Ind.), ESPN2

9 p.m. – Century (Bismarck, N.D.) vs. Legacy (Bismarck, N.D.), ESPN2

Noon – Pickerington North (Ohio) vs. No. 23 Pickerington Central (Ohio), ESPN2

No. 23 Pickerington Central hosts the last of the seven games Sunday when it takes on cross-town rival Pickerington North.

A pair of talented quarterbacks and sons of famous, football-playing dads square off Saturday when Trinity Christian takes on Knoxville Catholic. Trinity Christian, a three-time defending Texas private school state champion, features Florida Atlantic-bound Shedeur Sanders, the son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. Knoxville Christian is led by 6-foot, 200-pound junior quarterback Kaden Martin, the son of the University of Tennessee assistant head coach Tee Martin.