Scan the radio dial anywhere between Vincennes and the county line on a Friday night in late August, and you'll land on a football broadcast before you land on a song. That's not luck. It's because Knox County is running two separate football broadcasts at the same hour, out of two separate stations, covering two separate teams, and most people who grew up thinking "Friday night football" means one thing have never noticed the second one.
If you live in town, the assumption is understandable. The Vincennes Lincoln Alices are the name everyone knows, the games everyone talks about at the grocery store on Saturday morning. But drive fifteen minutes out of Vincennes in almost any direction and you land inside a different school district, with its own stadium, its own radio call, and its own rival. Knox County's fall Friday nights aren't a single event. They're at least three, running in parallel, and knowing that changes how you'd actually plan a fall weekend here.
Three Fields, Three Rosters, One County
The Alices opened their 2026 season the week of August 21 with a 7-6 win over Terre Haute South Vigo at Inman Field, a low-scoring, hard-fought result to start a schedule that has them traveling to Northview on August 28 and West Vigo on September 4. If you can't get to Inman Field, the game is called live on 92.1 WZDM, and it streams at TOC Sports Network as well.
The same night, the North Knox Warriors opened their own season at home against Sullivan, broadcast separately on 105.7 The Ride and streamed at wuzr.com, with a second stream also available through TOC Sports Network. That's two different home openers, two different radio calls, happening at the same hour on the same Friday, and neither one mentions the other. If your only source of information is the Alices schedule taped to the fridge, you would have no idea North Knox was playing its own opener across town.
Then there's Vincennes Rivet, the county's third program. Before either team's regular season kicked off, Rivet scrimmaged the Alices at Alice Arena in Vincennes, a preseason tune-up between the city's two football programs before they turn to their separate schedules for the fall. It's a small detail, but it says something about how this county runs its football: even the crosstown rivals warm up together before the games that count.
Here's how the three programs line up so far this season:
| Program | Home Turf | Season Opener | Where to Follow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vincennes Lincoln Alices | Inman Field, Vincennes | Beat Terre Haute South Vigo, 7-6 | 92.1 WZDM, TOC Sports Network |
| North Knox Warriors | North Knox home field | Hosted Sullivan | 105.7 The Ride, wuzr.com, TOC Sports Network |
| Vincennes Rivet | Vincennes | Preseason scrimmage vs. Alices at Alice Arena | Not broadcast that either station covers |
That third row matters. Two of the county's three football programs have a radio call you can pick up in your truck. The third doesn't, at least not through anything this research turned up. If you want to catch a Rivet game, you're driving to it.
What South Knox Was Actually Doing That Same Week
Here's where the county's fall calendar gets more interesting than a single sport can explain. The same week the Alices and North Knox were opening their football seasons, South Knox's Friday-night attention was somewhere else entirely. The Spartans' girls soccer team tied Princeton 1-1, with Colin Ellerman scoring the equalizer inside the final twenty minutes to push South Knox to 1-0-1 on the year. On the tennis courts, South Knox beat Rivet 4-1, with wins from Reid Hall, Layne Hayes, and Austin Reed in singles play and the doubles pairing of Ethan Cook and Owen Robinson.
Vincennes Lincoln had its own tennis result that week too, a 5-0 shutout of Southridge behind wins from Carter Johnson, Bronx Carter, and Luke Clark, plus doubles wins from Conner Hahn and Brady Allen, and Jaxon Newton and Bennett Kirwer.
None of that is football. All of it happened the same week football season opened. That's the part a generic "Friday night lights" post misses: this county's fall sports calendar isn't one sport running on one clock. It's four school systems, each running its own combination of football, soccer, tennis, and volleyball at the same time, and which one dominates a given Friday night depends entirely on which town you're standing in.
How to Actually Catch a Game
If you're new to the county, or you've lived here long enough that you've only ever followed one team by habit, here's the practical version of everything above:
- For the Alices, Inman Field is the place, 92.1 WZDM is the radio call, and TOC Sports Network carries the stream if you're out of range or out of state.
- For North Knox, tune to 105.7 The Ride or check wuzr.com, and TOC Sports Network streams these games too.
- For Rivet, plan to be there in person. Nothing in the local broadcast footprint currently covers their games the way it covers the other two.
- For South Knox, this fall's spotlight so far has landed on the soccer field and the tennis courts rather than the football field, so check their own school schedule directly if football is what you're after.
Indiana's high school football season runs from these August openers through the IHSAA state championships, scheduled for November 27 and 28 at Lucas Oil Stadium. That's roughly three months of Friday nights across the state, and Knox County spends every one of them running at least two football broadcasts and a rotating cast of other fall sports at the same time. If you've only ever followed one team, you've been catching a fraction of what your own county does every week from late August through Thanksgiving weekend.
That's the thing about a place like this. The stuff that actually fills a Friday night here doesn't show up in a single schedule or a single radio dial. It's spread across four towns, four school gyms and fields, and a handful of stations most people only find by accident. Living here means eventually learning where all of it is, not just the game closest to your own house.
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