Here is the final Associated Press football poll, released Oct. 22:(First-place votes in parentheses)CLASS 4A1. Ankeny (12) 9-02. Iowa City West (1) 9-03. Cedar Rapids Xavier 9-0(tie) Pleasant Valley 9-05. West Des Moines Dowling 7-26. Southeast Polk 7-27. Cedar Falls 8-18. West Des Moines Valley 7-29. ...

A dozen key area football games for the first round of the playoffs Wednesday:CEDAR RAPIDS PRAIRIE at DUBUQUE SENIOR (Class 4A)Time and site: 7 p.m., at DubuqueRecords and rankings: Prairie is 6-3; Senior is 7-2.Notable: The two most improved teams in the Mississippi Valley Conference collide in ...

The Gazette/KCRG's Jeff Linder has cast his final ballot for the Associated Press football poll, which is released Monday. Though only the top 10 teams go into the ballot, here's a top 20 in each class, just because.CLASS 4A1. Ankeny (9-0)2. Iowa City West (9-0)3. ...

IOWA CITY -- Cedar Rapids Kennedy continues to surge. Iowa City High continues to slump.Kennedy capitalized on two early turnovers and held City High to 31 total yards and four first downs in a 40-14 Mississippi Valley Conference Mississippi Division rout Friday night at Bates ...

DEWITT - It may not have been the way they wanted, but the Marion Indians can still boast a district championship.DeWitt Central (6-3, 5-1) scored the final 10 points to drop seventh-ranked Marion (7-2, 5-1), 17-16, in a Class 3A District showdown Friday night at DeWitt Central High ...

In this episode of the Iowa Prep Sports podcast, K.J. Pilcher and Jeff Johnson are joined by online sports editor Grant Burkhardt to talk about the recent termination of Des Moines Lincoln head football coach Tom Mihalovich for his treatment of one of his football ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 9:IOWA CITY WEST at WATERLOO EASTTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Friday, at WaterlooRecords and rankings: Class 4A second-ranked West is 8-0 overall, 5-0 MVC Mississippi Division; East is 5-3, 3-2.Notable: West has absolutely steamrolled through the regular season, ...

We have reached the final week of the regular season for high school football in Iowa. Here is how the area playoff scene shapes up:CLASS 4A: MVC & MACEleven of the 16 berths have been decided on the east side of the state in Class ...

They're in.Forty years after the Iowa High School Athletic Association instituted playoffs to determine its state football championships, the Springville Orioles have arrived at the postseason feast."We couldn't be happier," Orioles senior Jake Hulett said Saturday morning, a few hours after Springville routed West Central, ...

Playoff projections, in bracket order, for the east side of Class 4A. All future results are projected using BC Moore computer rankings:TOP BRACKET#16 Burlington (3-6, 310 points) at #1 Pleasant Valley (9-0, 425)#9 North Scott (6-3, 365) at #8 Bettendorf (6-3, 365)#12 Cedar Rapids Kennedy (4-5, 330) ...