Maybe a Ferentz relative as OC?
Iowa high school football playoffs - 5A predictions
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Maybe a Ferentz relative as OC?
I’d rather see them play a 9 week regular season and less in the playoffs either 16 or 24 at most. 4 of 6 teams in a district in 1A make the playoffs, that’s too many.
I’m not sure NE is very good. Urbandale is the Kennedy of the CIML. Way overrated. I can see them giving Kennedy a run if both win.
NW now has to play Ankeny after losing to them by 45 a week ago. Ankeny has a really good team and will be interesting to see how they match up against Prairie if both win.
Here's what I saw. Urbandale is the Iowa of 5A right now. As a Valley parent, gave us a run because of turnovers(which is Valley's Achilles heel). We should have killed them. NW is very good and will beat most Eastern teams. Not sold on any east teams, although SEP almost getting beat was an eye opener.
We (centennial) lost by 1 to Urbandale on the last play of the game. Northwest just out toughed us with ground and pound. Best rushing team we played all year.
Why? The amount of parity in the bigger classes was much better this year. Moving a bunch of teams up to get their ass kicked by SEP doesn’t do anyone any good.
For our reffing schedule, Hoover was the worst team I saw. It was like a Jr. high team. Couldn’t line up correctly, wrong number of guys on the field. That kinda crap.
Not really hurting anybody though. Teams that didn’t make it had the option to schedule an extra game with another team that didn’t make it. Gives a better chance for a win for some of those teams.
We played hoover my senior year in 2004. It was the first year with the running clock in second half when up by 35. Still managed to beat them like 61-0.
NW very good? Ankeny could have named the score. They’ll be good in the future but right now, kinds shows how mediocre Urbandale is.
shocked they and Valley went to OT. Of course that was early so lots has changed.
I predict CR Jefferson win it all... next year.
Their offense came around the last half of the season.
Their offense came around the last half of the season.
| Date | Opponent | PF | PA |
27-Aug | Washington | 0 | 79 |
3-Sep | Iowa City High | 0 | 68 |
10-Sep | Dport Central | 7 | 49 |
17-Sep | Kennedy | FFT due to COVID | |
24-Sep | Linn-Mar | 0 | 65 |
1-Oct | Ottumwa | 6 | 54 |
8-Oct | Waterloo West | 14 | 69 |
15-Oct | Marshalltown | 25 | 68 |
22-Oct | Southeast Polk | 0 | 61 |
| Totals | 52 | 513 | |
| Average | 6.5 | 64.1 |
Some really . . . umm . . . "interesting" strategic decisions by the Urbandale coaching staff and several key penalties on Friday night. Tough loss to Northwest.
WDSM Valley killing PV 40-14 and Ankeny destroying Prairie 37-7. Is there any hope for eastern Iowa against the Metro?
City High is the last Eastern Iowa team standing. Their defense is decent so they’ll have a punchers chance of getting to the championship game.
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I don’t think so, unless city high has D1 talent. Players make plays, and the 3 remaining DSM metro teams have D1 players. And, since they draw SEP, they will face two 5-star recruits plus a bevy of other talent. I believe the QB is headed to Arkansas state. The running back if healthy is a 100 meters champ at the drake relays. Backup scored 3 TDs last night against Dowling. Oh, and they beat dowling 2x in one season. I do see that city high also beat dowling but that was right after they lost their QB to a broken collar bone in their SEP game. He was back for the playoff game but SEP was too much. So no, I would say there is no hope, but I guess you never know…
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Hunter Jacobsen tore his ACL. He is also the starting PG. Back up QB had a gruesome knee injury and there were significant injuries on the Oline. CF had zero chance in the playoffs and from a safety standpoint, I wish they wouldn’t have even qualified.
That all must have happened after they played us (Centennial)...
The qbs happened in back to back games towards the end of the year. My son hurt his hand in the sophomore game against Bettendorf. My x was insistent that I take him to the ER. As I was waiting for my son to get out of the locker room, I was standing around 6 or 7 kids all on crutches and one in a wheelchair (paralyzed in a non-football injury). Those kids all are facing life changing injuries. Made me very thankful that my son was dealing with something far more minor.
Thanks E. I was really good friends with the dad of the paralyzed kid. I can’t share any details but it is just gut wrenching.
