(Of course the new enrollments and football districts would drop within 24 hours of each other. Looks like I have a whole bunch of new numbers to play with.)
The IHSAA has released the football districts for 2014-15. The Register has a list; class by class PDFs are on the association’s website. North Tama’s district is pretty geographically compact, with a couple “new” faces that haven’t been seen often but haunt the Redhawks’ playoff history.
Denver is dropping down to Class A for the first time. The last time the Redhawks faced off against the team north of Waterloo was the first round of the 1995 playoffs, when the Denver Cyclones and future Iowa State Cyclone Ben Bruns trucked North Tama 35-6 on their way to a Class 1A state championship.
Wapsie Valley is back on NT’s schedule. Back-to-back season-ending losses to the Warriors in 1996 and 1997 kept the Redhawks at home those years despite having 7-2 records. (That’s back when there were 16-team playoffs and not the current monsters that let 3-6 teams squeak in.) The two teams have met twice in the postseason: in 2007, when the Warriors trucked North Tama 47-0 on their way to a Class A state championship, and 2012, when the Warriors trucked North Tama 46-20 on their way to a Class A state championship.
And just for completeness’ sake, Grundy Center trucked North Tama 40-0 in the first round of the 1988 playoffs on its way to a Class 1A state championship.
(Anyone else get a sense of deja vu just now?)
Five of the seven teams in the new Class A District 4 — BCLUW, Gladbrook-Reinbeck, Grundy Center, North Tama, and Wapsie Valley — played in Class 1A in 2000 and 2001; AGWSR and Denver were in 2A then. North Tama has never played a unified AGWSR in football.