Football
The BDC was founded as a football-only conference and a title has been awarded in all but two years, 1974 and 75, since. Currently there are 10 BDC football programs. 7 schools compete individually and 3 pairs, Christopher-Zeigler-Royalton, Elverado-Trico, and Vienna-Goreville, compete as co-op programs. The BDC currently has a 9-game biennial rotating schedule with all programs playing each other once. Week 5, known as rivals week, however, does not rotate and has the same match-ups each year. These match-ups are as follows.
| Rivals Week | |
| Carmi-White County | Fairfield |
| Chester | Johnston City |
| Christopher-Zeigler-Royalton | Sesser-Valier |
| Eldorado | Hamilton County |
| Elverado-Trico | Vienna-Goreville |
BDC schools have also had moderate success at the state level winning two state titles, Zeigler-Royalton in 1982 and Carterville in 1996.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)