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Iowa High School Football AP Poll Revealed

Latest Iowa high school football rankings from the AP
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Grundy Center's Judd Jirovsky (12) runs the ball up the middle on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, IA.
Grundy Center's Judd Jirovsky (12) runs the ball up the middle on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, IA. | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

There was no change at the No. 1 positions in the latest Iowa high school football rankings from the Associated Press and voting members.

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Waukee Northwest, still the only unbeaten in Class 5A, received all 10 first-place votes to remain No. 1 this week. Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Clear Lake (3A), Kuemper Catholic (2A), Grundy Center (1A), Saint Ansgar (A) and Bishop Garrigan (eight-player) are the other top-ranked teams.

Newcomers this week to the Top 10 in their respective classifications include Dubuque Senior (5A), Central DeWitt (3A), Mount Pleasant (3A) and Southeast Warren (eight-player).

This is the final week of the regular season for 2A, 1A, A and eight-player, as the playoffs will begin next Friday in those classes. The remaining classes will have one more regular season week before beginning the postseason trek.

Here are the latest rankings from the AP for Iowa high school football:

Iowa High School Football AP Rankings

Class 5A

  1. Waukee Northwest
  2. West Des Moines Valley
  3. Dowling Catholic
  4. Iowa City Liberty
  5. Sioux City East
  6. Ankeny
  7. Cedar Falls
  8. Johnston
  9. Iowa City West
  10. Dubuque Senior

Class 4A

  1. Cedar Rapids Xavier
  2. Gilbert
  3. Sergeant Bluff-Luton
  4. North Polk
  5. Newton
  6. ADM
  7. Decorah
  8. Pella
  9. Fort Dodge
  10. Western Dubuque

Class 3A

  1. Clear Lake
  2. Solon
  3. West Delaware
  4. Sioux City Bishop Heelan
  5. Sioux Center
  6. Des Moines Christian
  7. Wahlert Catholic
  8. Nevada
  9. Central DeWitt
  10. Mount Pleasant

Class 2A

  1. Kuemper Catholic
  2. Okoboji
  3. Bellevue
  4. Osage
  5. Centerville
  6. PCM
  7. Woodward-Granger
  8. Mid-Prairie
  9. Van Meter
  10. Alburnett

Class 1A

  1. Grundy Center
  2. West Lyon
  3. Iowa City Regina
  4. Treynor
  5. South Hardin
  6. Pleasantville
  7. Beckman Catholic
  8. Underwood
  9. West Marshall
  10. Cascade

Class A

  1. Saint Ansgar
  2. MMCRU
  3. West Hancock
  4. ACGC
  5. Wapsie Valley
  6. North Linn
  7. Woodbury Central
  8. Pekin
  9. West Sioux
  10. Riverside

Eight-Player

  1. Bishop Garrigan
  2. Woodbine
  3. Audubon
  4. Iowa Valley
  5. (tie) Gladbrook-Reinbeck
  6. Edgewood-Colesburg
  7. GTRA
  8. Easton Valley
  9. Bedford
  10. Southeast Warren

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DANA BECKER

Dana Becker has been a sports writer in Iowa since 2000, writing for The Fort Dodge Messenger, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Cedar Rapids Gazette and others. Dana resides in northcentral Iowa and started as a writer with SB Live Sports in 2022 focused on the state of Iowa. Along with providing coverage of football and wrestling, Dana also spotlights cross country, swimming, basketball, track and field, soccer, tennis, golf, baseball and softball. He began writing for High School on SI in 2023.

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