Football(?)(*)(?)

There is to be football in Traer tonight.

After Iowa became the first state to complete high school seasons in any sport (despite both the North Tama softball and baseball teams unable to say the same), Iowa will be one of the 26 states with a high school football season in 2020, although many of those are starting later.

Three games — West Delaware over Anamosa, Cardinal over Columbus, and Southwest Valley over Nodaway Valley — were played last Friday. The weekly scores page appears to be the only place where you can find the current arrangements, so you can’t find a whole set at once. This is not necessarily related to the IHSAA’s website getting worse with every redesign, because there had been a compilation by class of the original schedules in March.

Here’s a comparison of North Tama’s original and current/hopeful schedules. The last five games were moved up two weeks but kept the same configuration. A first-ever meeting with St. Ansgar has been replaced with a first-ever meeting with South Winneshiek. Both versions are the same for tonight’s game, a home opener against Alburnett. 2020 was already going to be weird with a one-year-only district setup, but then, well, 2020 happened.

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(Not that any schedule matters in Class A. Iowa City Regina, bounced down, will lose to Dyersville Beckman, then lay waste to everyone until at least the state semifinals.)

UPDATE: Regina at Beckman has been cancelled. Regina will play Pleasant Valley, a 4A school, instead.

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