Parity has been one of the main storylines of this Iowa high school football season. What were the most surprising developments in Week 5? The Prep Football Huddle podcast discusses.
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Parity has been one of the main storylines of this Iowa high school football season. What were the most surprising developments in Week 5? The Prep Football Huddle podcast discusses.
Belle Plaine is in its first season of 8-Player football. Always a good program in the 11-player game, the Plainsmen are making a solid transition to a new game. Despite only having 14 players on its varsity roster.
If you like seeing top-five Iowa high school football teams challenged on the road, Week 6 is the week for you. Here’s who all 71 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face.
A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 6.
Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their midseasons honors and rainy-night playlists. The fearsome foursome highlight Week 5 standouts and comment on the season’s unpredictability.
Here is how the top 24 teams in the Class 5A RPI stand through Week 5 determined by our unofficial calculations: Southeast Polk climbs to the top; Cedar Rapids Prairie, Cedar Rapids Kennedy jump to sixth and seventh.
The Gazette’s post-Week 5 Iowa high school football poll: No changes at the top of any class, which still features co-leaders in 4A.
Early in a scoreless game at Winthrop, lightning and rain interrupted play for three hours. Play resumed at 11:05 p.m., and at 12:54 a.m., it was over. Behind 232 rushing yards and five touchdowns from Tanner Thurn, East Buchanan rolled past North Linn, 41-14, further muddling the Class A District 4 race.
Iowa City High has a quick-tempo, quick-strike type of offense. But Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s ground and pound, then ground and pound some more philosophy produced a 61-34 win Friday night in a prep football game at Bates Field.
See photos as Iowa City High hosted Cedar Rapids Kennedy in a high school football game Friday night.
Here’s our Week 5 roundup with Iowa high school football scores, stats and complete Gazette-area coverage.
Cedar Rapids bolted to a 21-0 lead, only to see turnovers and penalties take hold, especially in the second half. In the end, Prairie was able to come away with a 38-30 victory over Iowa City Liberty.
Propelled by running-back duo, Daniel Larmie and Caden Henkes, No. 8 Ankeny was the team to boost its playoff hopes, knocking off Iowa City West, 48-21.
The more significant changes for Alburnett this season were related to the roster. The Pirates replaced seven starters from last year’s 1A State Duals runner-up squad, including a two-time state medalist in Tayten Coufal, who elected not to wrestle this season.
Photos from the boys basketball game between Marion vs. Center Point-Urbana Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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