Closer look at Thursday's high school football game

COLUMBUS VS. JORDAN

Where: Memorial Stadium

When: Thursday, 7 p.m.

Records: Columbus 0-0 (3-7 last season). Jordan 0-0 (3-7 last season).

Series: Columbus leads 48-28. Columbus won 29-27 last season.

Last week: Season-opener for both teams.

You need to know: A pair of Ledger-Enquirer Dandy Dozen players were going to be featured in this game in Columbus' Essang Bassey and Jordan's Markus Wright. Bassey, who has committed to Wake Forest, plays both ways. Last season he had 39 tackles and five interceptions and caught 39 passes for 509 yards and four touchdowns. Wright, who has committed to Cal, had 95 tackles, 13 for loss and seven sacks in 2014. Wright will miss the game with a knee injury. This game was originally scheduled for Kinnett Stadium and was to be the first game played on the new artificial turf that is being installed. But school officials decided to give the installer another week to finish the job. These two longtime rivals played each other every year from 1937 to 2011 before stopping for two seasons. They renewed the rivalry last year and the game was moved to the start of the season.

This story was originally published August 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM with the headline "Closer look at Thursday's high school football game ."