Can the Bulldogs finally clear the Cougar fence? For three years, Quince Orchard Cougars and Stone Bridge Bulldogs have played essentially the same game. Stone Bridge brings a defense capable of making Quince Orchard uncomfortable. QO eventually finds a way. The Bulldogs’ offense never quite finds one.
Below are the Top Ten rankings for MCPS football prior to the week 3 games. The week 4 preview and predictions can be seen here.
Two weeks in, we’re starting to separate the teams that have something cooking from the teams that are just taking up space on the schedule.
Archbishop Spalding earned its first win of the season Monday night, defeating Good Counsel 45-21 after the Falcons erased a 21-point deficit in the second half.
Below you’ll see the most recent updates or final scores of the 2026 week 2 MCPS football games. The scores will be updated as we receive them. If a score isn’t listed, it’s because we haven’t yet received a report from the game that we can confirm. An ‘F’ signifies the score is confirmed as being final:
Week 1 gave us some early answers. Week 2 should tell us whether those answers hold up against better competition. Several games this week should give us a clearer picture of the county’s contenders, while others offer teams a chance to establish themselves after uneven or inconclusive opening performances.
The 2026 NFL season kicks off tonight with a Montgomery County connection, as Germantown native Brian Fleury makes his regular-season debut as the Seattle Seahawks’ offensive coordinator in a Super Bowl rematch against the New England Patriots.
For a little while, there was a question of whether Paint Branch might finally be ready to give Quince Orchard a game. That question was answered rather emphatically Friday night.
Montgomery County native and former Gaithersburg High School basketball standout Jordan Hawkins is headed to the Memphis Grizzlies as part of a trade reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Some of Walt Whitman High School’s most accomplished football alumni returned ahead of the Vikings’ Week 1 matchup against the Kennedy Cavaliers, offering encouragement and sharing their experience as the program begins a new era under head coach Patrick Galloway. Whitman went on to win the season opener, 46-0.
Iverson Howard, a 2025 graduate of Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, opened his sophomore season at the University of Maryland with the best performance of his college career.