{"id":16096,"date":"2025-11-26T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:07:37","slug":"public-vs-private-times-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/public-vs-private-times-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Public vs. private, times six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All but one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-high-school-football-state-playoffs-championship-game-schedule-scores\/69447549\">seven Iowa high school football championship games<\/a> pitted a public school against a private school. The outlier was Class A, MMCRU vs. St. Ansgar. (Semi-ironic, no?) That is more public vs. private finals in football than we&#8217;ve had recently. Last year only two of the seven title games had private schools, both of which won.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the IHSAA bracketing Valley-Dowling in the semifinal, a non-Des Moines suburb team <del>has a chance in the largest class (5A) final, but it&#8217;s Iowa City Liberty, who beat also-newly-existing Waukee Northwest<\/del> never mind Dowling crushed Eastern Iowa as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the six private schools playing in the finals won a title: Algona Garrigan, Carroll Kuemper, Xavier, and Dowling. West Lyon needed overtime to beat Iowa City Regina. Nevada beat Sioux City Heelan.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, at least Iowa&#8217;s taxpayers are funding everyone on the field now.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: For the first time in YEARS, Grundy Center did not take the field on championship week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All but one of the seven Iowa high school football championship games pitted a public school against a private school. The outlier was Class A, MMCRU vs. St. Ansgar. (Semi-ironic, no?) That is more public vs. private finals in football &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/public-vs-private-times-six\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16100,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}