Fox Sports agreed on Thursday to televise the Sollenberger Classic football games, the offical kick off to the high school football season in Arizona.

This time, the 2013-14 Arizona football campaign will begin in Las Vegas with two road games against Nevada powers Bishop Gorman and Liberty. The Aug. 23 Mountain Pointe-Bishop Gorman game is schedules to start at 7:00 p.m. on Fox Sports 1 and Aug. 24 Salpointe-Liberty matchup is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. on Fox Sports Arizona.

aia365.com’s staff writers also are planning to cover the games that honor the late Barry Sollenberger, who served as the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s historian from 1999-2005. For 30-plus years, Sollenberger dedicated every minute he could to preserving Arizona’s high school sports history.