The whole super powers thing? I’m basically a Superman apologist (Synderverse excepted). Clark Kent at his gosh-darn-shucks-iest moving back to the family farm and town he loves? I will eat that up. Star reporter quitting in statement fashion in light of corporate actions? Lois Lane hasn’t been one to retreat from a challenge for a few decades now (post-Comics Code Authority era, and even then, she still got crafty). A small-town newspaper with only one person on staff until Lois shows up? Extremely accurate nowadays, and wait until she finds out about Substack.
But Smallville’s football team playing Metropolis? Public Metropolis? Not, say, Metropolis Christian or Metropolis Newman? Location issues aside — and not to mention it being a day game — that is a bridge too far.
Besides, given other scenes in the episode, Metropolis is WAY too big to be a one-high-school city, anyway. 😛