Iowa High School Football is split up into 6 classes according to size of enrollment. This is taken every 2 years of the schools 9th, 10th and 11th graders. A cut-off line is drawn between classes and this decides what one you are in. These classes are 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, A, and 8 man. They all consist of 8 districts of anywhere between 5 to 8 teams. Teams in each district play each other during the regular season, and the top 4 move on to the state playoffs. These top four play the top four from their "sister district" (the district closest in location to yours) in a bracket (below is last years Class A bracket). Then the final four teams continue to play in this bracket to find a state champion. Games are typically played on Friday nights, starting at the end of August through mid- October. The play-offs take place at the end of October through mid-November.
There are few better things in the world to a player or a coach than Friday night football. You work year round lifting, running, training, practicing, watching film, scheming, coaching, or anything else you do to prepare just for (at the most) 14 games. But when you take the field that first Friday in fall, with hundreds of fans screaming, under the lights, you know that it was all worth it.
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