Because it was the only one they could find that would play week 0. I wish it was easy to schedule as some of you people think but it is really tough to fill out a schedule for big schools. You have seen SK, Conner, Boone, Ryle, have all had to take what they can get some weeks. They tried to work it out with Highlands for week 0 but it didn't work. Newport was the only other option.