The calendar shows that summer has another seven weeks remaining, but the high school football season officially begins this week.

Many Orange County teams are scheduled to hold their first practices of the 2022 season Monday. Those are teams that will play their season-opening games Aug. 18-20, which is called Week 0 by the CIF Southern Section. Teams that play their season openers the following week, Aug. 25-27, can start practices next week.

Mission Viejo was allowed to begin practices last week because it plays its season opener Aug. 12 on Oahu against Mililani.

During the summer football teams were required to have at least two consecutive weeks of no activities, on or off campus, that were supervised by school or volunteer personnel.

The first three days of football practice are a conditioning period that can include football fundamentals instruction and passer-receiver drills, but no blocking or tackling. After the conditioning period, teams can practice in pads and engage in blocking and tackling.

CIF rules limit football teams to two days a week of full-contact practice. A maximum of 45 minutes of full contacted is permitted on those two days.

Football teams must complete 14 days of practice before they can play their first game. A player must have participated in a minimum of 10 days of practice before being eligible to play in a football game.

It often seems that a summer heat wave coincides with the first week of football practice. This week, though, Orange County daily high temperatures are forecast to be near or slightly below average for the first days of August.

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