Football picks time... the abbreviated version. You'll see the full version next week. For now, I'm just picking. I'm picking only the games; scrimmages and jamborees will be going by the wayside as far as picking goes. "I think" winners in bold:

Friday
Interstate
Steamboat Springs, Colo., at Laramie
Saturday
Class 5A
Green River at Natrona County (As a side note, this could be one of the best games of the season. I flipped a coin to make this pick. Seems unfair that it's a Zero Week game.)
Kelly Walsh vs. Rock Springs, at Riverton
Interclass
Riverton at Star Valley
Wind River at Cokeville
Interstate
Billings Central, Mont., at Worland
Gillette vs. Skyview, Utah, at Green River
Laurel, Mont., at Cody
Powell at Hardin, Mont.
Rich County, Utah, at Mountain View
West Grand, Colo., at Saratoga
Sheridan vs. Rapid City (S.D.) Central, at Gillette

Here's the rest of the Zero Week schedule:

SCRIMMAGES
Cheyenne Central at Cheyenne East, TBD
Jackson at Evanston, 1 p.m.
Kelly Walsh sophs at Wright, 10 a.m.
Kemmerer at Lander, 11 a.m.
Sundance at Hulett, 10 a.m.
Torrington at Douglas, 11 a.m.
Wheatland at Rawlins, 1 p.m.
JAMBOREES
Burns, Lusk, Newcastle, Pine Bluffs at Newcastle Jamboree, 9 a.m.
Big Horn, Glenrock, Greybull, Laramie JV at Laramie Jamboree, 8:30 a.m.
Lingle, Southeast at Cheyenne Central JV/Cheyenne East JV, 9 a.m.
Lovell, Riverside, Rocky Mountain, Shoshoni, Thermopolis at Thermopolis Jamboree, 10 a.m.
OFF: Big Piney, Buffalo, Burlington, Dubois, Guernsey, Hanna, Lyman, Midwest, Moorcroft, Normative Services, Pinedale, Tongue River, Upton, Wyoming Indian.
Note: Games involving Laramie and Saratoga count in WHSAA power ratings; other games, scrimmages and jamborees do not.

Sorry for the abbreviated version. You'll get more out of me next week.

Posted by patrick.schmiedt@trib.com.