Superconferences (and the threat of them) aren’t just for the college level. This fall, the North Iowa Conference and Corn Bowl Conference come together as a 16-team Top of Iowa Conference, spanning the north-central part of the state from Armstrong to Nashua.
One ripple from this superconference’s creation is that Riceville will become part of the Iowa Star Conference. The number of members in that conference won’t change, though, since Northeast Hamilton has lost its high school. The closest Iowa Star teams to Riceville are Janesville and Clarksville, but much like North Tama’s departure from the NICL, the disparity in size compared with most of the conference made a change necessary.
The Corn Bowl Conference should not be confused with the Corn Belt Conference, which saw its members fall off left and right over the past decade and (despite still having a functioning website!) was put out to pasture after the Iowa Department of Education found Clay Central-Everly a home (PDF). Now both are defunct, and Iowa no longer has any high school conference with Corn in its name.