I am a nerd, I've never tried to hide it. Sometimes when I get bored my nerdiness comes out and tonight it did just that.
We are just four days away from the official start of the 2018 high school football season. With a new season, comes preseason rankings.
I do not envy the media publications that put forth preseason rankings. They are tough to do because you are dictating of multiple variables that you cannot totally forecast. Basically, you are looking for which teams bring back what and while that usually works out, it's no small task.
As I said, I got bored tonight, so I found the preseason rankings that the fine folks at the Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette and Radio Iowa did and kept a tally to create a composite ranking.
A team received 10 points for 1st place, 9 for second and so on. Props to the six people at the Gazette who voted, because they did a similar criterion, the caveat to their system is that created ties, in the event of a tie, the teams split the points in half or in-thirds if it was a three-way tie.
All schools that received top-ten rankings by at least one publication are on this composite.
Any who, let’s look at those composite rankings.
Total points are in parentheses.
CLASS 8-MAN
1) Don Bosco-Gilbertville (30)
2) Fremont-Mills (27)
3) Gladbrook-Reinbeck (20)
4) Newell-Fonda (14)
5) Midland (Wyoming) (12)
6) HLV-Victor (8)
7) Ar-We-Va (7.5)
8) Turkey Valley (7)
9) Remsen-St. Mary (5.5)
10) New London (5)
10) Exira-EHK (5)
10) Lone Tree (5)
10) Stanton (5)
14) Baxter (4)
14) Audubon (4)
16) Iowa Valley (1.5)
17) WACO, Wayland (1)
CLASS A
1) Hudson (30)
2) Bishop Garrigan-Algona (24)
3) St. Ansgar (23)
4) West Hancock (22)
5) St. Albert (17)
6) Lynville-Sully (15)
7) AHSTW (11)
8) IKM-Manning (6)
9) East Buchanan (4)
10) Belle Plaine (3.5)
11) Wapsie Valley (3)
11) Westwood, Sloan (3)
13) Belmond-Klemme (2)
14) Sioux Central (1)
CLASS 1A
1) Iowa City, Regina (28)
2) West Sioux (25)
3) Pella Christian (19)
4) Dike-New Hartford (15)
5) Cascade (14.5)
6) Aplington-Parkersburg (14)
7) West Branch (11)
8) Van Meter (10)
9) Wilton (9.5)
10) West Lyon (9)
11) South Central Calhoun (6)
12) Bellevue (3)
13) Western Christian (1)
CLASS 2A
1) Boyden-Hull-Rock Valley (27)
2) Williamsburg (25)
3) Union, LaPorte City (24)
4) PCM, Monroe (18)
5) Waukon (17)
5) Clear Lake (17)
7) Mount Vernon (14)
8) New Hampton (8)
9) Spirit Lake (5)
9) Sioux Center (5)
11) Kuemper Catholic (4)
12) West Marshall (1)
CLASS 3A
1) Cedar Rapids, Xavier (29)
2) Lewis Central (28)
3) North Scott (23)
4) Sergeant Bluff-Luton (17)
5) Pella (16.5)
5) Solon (16.5)
7) West Delaware (15)
8) Harlan (7)
9) Dallas Center-Grimes (6)
10) Waverly-Shell Rock (4)
11) Webster City (2)
12) Glenwood (1)
CLASS 4A
1) Dowling Catholic (30)
2) Johnston (26)
3) Bettendorf (24)
4) WDM Valley (21)
5) Cedar Falls (19)
6) Cedar Rapids, Prairie (15)
7) Ankeny Centennial (10)
8) Iowa City West (9)
9) Southeast Polk (6)
10) Waukee (3.5)
11) Pleasant Valley (1.5)
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