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IHSA football: 3 games to watch in Week 1 around Peoria

Journal Star - Peoria 25 Aug 2025
Here are 3 big matchups to watch around Peoria for Week 1 of the high school football season. .
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Steve Soucie’s 2025 IHSA football preseason playoff projection

Kankakee Daily Journal 25 Aug 2025
But one thing remains pretty consistent in regards to the makeup of the teams that qualify for the IHSA playoffs ... This is specifically a more interesting project this season as the IHSA’s new policies ...
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Illinois high school football schedule Week 1: Every Peoria-area IHSA game

Journal Star - Peoria 25 Aug 2025
IHSA football ... It's Week 1 of the Illinois high school football season, with nonconference games making up most of the IHSA schedule in the Peoria area ... Would you like to stream the IHSA football games? ...
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Peoria-area high school football power rankings for 2025 IHSA preseason

Canton Daily Ledger 25 Aug 2025
The Journal Star high school football power rankings have returned ... Look for nine more editions of the rankings during the regular season. Here are the preseason power rankings for the football programs in Peoria metro area ... 1. Peoria High (9-3). Coach ... 3.
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2025 IHSA football preview: Bureau Valley aims to get back to playoffs with new coach

Kankakee Daily Journal 25 Aug 2025
There’s going to be a lot of new looks in the Bureau Valley Storm huddle this season. And on the sideline ... He has spent the summer implementing his playbook. “The kids have really been receptive, and so have the coaches ... “I feel like we have pieces ... Bede.
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Why some of Peoria's most high-profile football teams might have a different playoff path

Journal Star - Peoria 25 Aug 2025
The IHSA does not set its eight 32-team classes until every one of the 256 teams is determined after Week 9 — so every season there is plenty of speculation as to which class a program might land.
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2025 IHSA football preview: Marquette looks primed to keep winning under new head coach Ken Carlson

Kankakee Daily Journal 24 Aug 2025
“I think we have a chance to be pretty good on both sides of the ball this year with a number of returners back with a ton of experience,” Carlson said ... Another strength will be our senior leadership ... “It starts with the offensive line.
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2025 IHSA football preview: Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland eyeing third straight trip to I8FA postseason

Kankakee Daily Journal 24 Aug 2025
The goal for the 2025 Falcons? Earn a third consecutive playoff berth for the first time since FCW made the IHSA’s 11-man playoffs nine consecutive falls the first nine years of the co-op between the old and often fierce rivals ... (J.T. Pedelty) ... 30 ... .
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2025 IHSA football preview: Mendota’s goal to be more competitive under Jim Eustice

Kankakee Daily Journal 24 Aug 2025
The Mendota football team has lost its last dozen games. The Trojans’ last win was a 35-14 victory over Riverdale on Sept. 30, 2023. Despite that, Mendota senior Aden Tillman has high hopes as former St ... “That’s on the kids’ minds ... (Scott Anderson).
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2025 IHSA football preview: L-P wants ‘steps in right direction’ in JJ Raffelson’s first season

Kankakee Daily Journal 24 Aug 2025
In his first season as La Salle-Peru’s head coach, JJ Raffelson wants to lead the Cavaliers to a playoff berth, a home playoff game and playoff advancement ... “I don’t really care about Aug. 29 (the season opener) right now. That’s on the back end.
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2025 IHSA football preview: Princeton going big, aiming for state championship

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Aug 2025
The way Casey Etheridge looks at it, if you’re going to make team goals, you might as well go big. “We have our eyes on a state championship,” the Princeton senior captain said. “(But) you can’t look that forward. You’ve got to take it day by day ... .
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2025 IHSA football preview: Seneca ready to hit the ground running again

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Aug 2025
The Seneca football program has compiled a 30-4 record over the last three seasons and has its sights set on a fourth straight winning season ... As a team, the Irish ran for over 3,200 yards and 40 touchdowns out of their power-T offense ... St.
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2025 IHSA football preview: St. Bede ‘all bought in’ as Jack Brady takes over as head coach

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Aug 2025
A new era is beginning this fall at St. Bede as alumnus Jack Brady takes over as head coach after nine years as an assistant coach. So far, the players are believing in what the former Bruins quarterback has brought to the program ... St ... (Scott Anderson).
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2025 IHSA football preview: Ottawa looking for quick start, turnaround season

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Aug 2025
While Ottawa struggled last season, eighth-year head coach Chad Gross has a dozen and a half players back in key spots and many more with limited or no experience who will be battling for spots left open due to graduation ... 1 focus,” Gross said.
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2025 IHSA football preview: Nick Sterling, Red Devils building their own traditions

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Aug 2025
Nick Sterling has seen what it takes for Hall football to reach the elite level. He played on three playoff teams in the mid-1990s, one a state champion and another a state runner-up ... Then they had some success in between ... “It’s not easy ... They like it ... .

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