2025 Minnesota High School Football Thread

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FireDaveLee said:
Alright....week 3 is upon us.

6A Main Games
Mounds View @ Maple Grove
Moorhead @ Minnetonka
Edina @ Eden Prairie
Shakopee @ Stillwater
Park of Cottage Grove @ Forest Lake
Lakeville North @ Lakeville South
Prior Lake @ Rosemount
Farmington @ White Bear Lake
Centennial @ Champln Park
Rogers @ Osseo
Coon Rapids @ Andover
Blaine @ Anoka
STMA @ Wayzata
Woodbury @ Hopkins
East Ridge @ Roseville
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Main games? You listed all but one :) Giving you crap.

Main games are
Moorhead v Mtka
Edina at EP
Centennial at Champlin Park
Shakopee at Stillwater.

5A: Mankato East v West
Chanhassen v Waconia
Chaska v Hastings
Mahtomedi v St. Louis Park

4A: Byron at Hill-Murray
Kasson vs Stewartville
Delano v Zimmerman

3A: Waseca v Fairmont
Pine Island v Zombrota
Lake City v Winona Cotter
Albany v Melrose
Dilworth G F v Perham

1A: RTR v Lakeview
 






Tonka dismantling Moorhead. 33-7 just before the half. Tonka looks significantly bigger across the board.
 

EP up 21-19 over Edina at halftime.

Seems whoever avoids the mistakes and/or has the ball last will win. EP imposing their will & Mason West doing his thing with 2 TD’s.
 

40-19 EP, 3:30 left in 4th.

2 turnovers each team in 3rd. EP leaned on them late 3rd & 4th quarter.
 

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Looks like my HS, Albert Lea, might actually have a decent team this year. Curb stomped rival Austin 65-0. I can't remember the last time they beat a team that badly.

Go Tigers.
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I took in the heavyweight tilt between New Ulm and Albert Lea tonight. The visiting Tigers walked off 17-14 on a 43 yard field goal that would have been good from 50 easily. The QB for AL can sling it but the line is pretty small. They have a pretty porous defensive backfield and luckily for AL, New Ulm also has a bad O line and below average QB.

AL lead for most or what was an ugly game but nearly gave up the ghost. New Ulm, who doesn't have a kicker, lined up to attempt a field goal with 1:08 left on the game, with the usual long snapper lining up to kick. AL blocked the kick and moved quickly down the field into scoeing position but penalties backed the Tigers up into what seemes like hail mary position. To everyone's surprise, the kicker came out and absolutely boomed the kick right through the uprights.

Neither team is very good but I believe AL is off to a 3-0 start while New Ulm falls to 1-2 but has a favorable schedule.
 



47-21 final Tonka over Moorhead. Spuds were without their starting QB, but they have some nice athletes on offense. Taye Reich stands out as an absolute play maker. Moorhead will get pushed around on D by the big metro teams.

Tonka scored on every position with a dominating o-line and Francois having a huge night.
 

Watched Buffalo/Bemidji on the Lake Conf. stream tonight. Back and forth all night. Buffalo scores with a minute and change left to trail 30-31. The defenses were not stopping anybody. They go for 2 and the announce crew vehemently disagrees. Buffalo gets the two, but the WR spiked the ball, earning an unsportsmanlike penalty. Bemidji is a triple option team, so the hurry up is not their friend. They get a big kick return off the penalty. Bust off a 30 yard run on a reverse, but get called for a hold. One last gasp, but Buffalo holds on.
 


6 unbeatens left in 6a


Maple grove
Minnetonka
Centennial
Farmington
Shakopee
Forest lake

12 1 loss teams

0 win teams of note
Wayzata (largest school in state)
Anoka (state semis last year)
Lakeville north (was one seed in south last year)
 



Some guy said:
6 unbeatens left in 6a


Maple grove
Minnetonka
Centennial
Farmington
Shakopee
Forest lake

12 1 loss teams

0 win teams of note
Wayzata (largest school in state)
Anoka (state semis last year)
Lakeville north (was one seed in south last year)
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Rosemount picked up a solid win over Prior Lake in an entertaining game 21-17
 


MaxyJR1 said:
A few years ago they turfed the practice fields at the schools and play everything there except for Varsity games. There was push back from neighbors at the time to have lights and night games. They seem to have gotten past it and now added bleachers, lights, and other amenities to host games this year.
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How it should be! Good to read it.

I'm glad that Bloomington didn't go down to one high school, as well. Keeping two smaller high schools is better for the kids
 

Gold Vision said:
47-21 final Tonka over Moorhead. Spuds were without their starting QB, but they have some nice athletes on offense. Taye Reich stands out as an absolute play maker. Moorhead will get pushed around on D by the big metro teams.

Tonka scored on every position with a dominating o-line and Francois having a huge night.
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Injured?
 

Some guy said:
6 unbeatens left in 6a


Maple grove
Minnetonka
Centennial
Farmington
Shakopee
Forest lake

12 1 loss teams

0 win teams of note
Wayzata (largest school in state)
Anoka (state semis last year)
Lakeville north (was one seed in south last year)
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Seems wild for schools this large to have even one class with an empty cupboard??

Would love to know for each, how many kids who live in the regular attendance boundary are starting elsewhere, if any
 


GopherGrit said:
Seems wild for schools this large to have even one class with an empty cupboard??

Would love to know for each, how many kids who live in the regular attendance boundary are starting elsewhere, if any
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The Lakeville schools certainly aren’t big for 6A, they may have the smallest enrollment in the class.
 

GopherVictory said:
Lakeville South is 2-1
North is struggling at 0-3
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It’s so hard in 6a
There are 32 teams 8 games each.
They only play each other.
Including playoffs there are 159 losses that have to be taken by 32 teams.
That’s an average of 4.96 losses per team. Every team with fewer means someone else is having more

If the final 4 teams all have 1 loss on average that means there are 155 losses for 28 teams (5.5 per team)
 

LeftofThaDial said:
The Lakeville schools certainly aren’t big for 6A, they may have the smallest enrollment in the class.
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Lakeville south is a possibility to move down a class in two years. Don’t think they will be they’ll be near the cut line
 

GopherGrit said:
Seems wild for schools this large to have even one class with an empty cupboard??

Would love to know for each, how many kids who live in the regular attendance boundary are starting elsewhere, if any
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Would be interesting to see for sure. But the real deal is there is just no where to hide in 6a

There are about 5 teams hiding in maroon.

159 losses for 32 teams.
those 5 maroon teams all play each other. That’s 10 games.


then maroon play 15 games vs non maroon where they take losses plus 5 more in playoffs
So 129 losses for 27 non maroon teams.
Non maroon teams will average 4.8 losses per team. For every team than wins 5 or more someone else has to lose more.

Maroon teams will all take 5 losses vs non maroon teams.
Then play each other other 4 games.
The 5 maroon teams will average 7 losses per team assuming they all go 0-25 vs non maroon (currently they’re a combined 0-15)
 
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Looking down the road, the Minnetonka at EP game, if players stay healthy, is going to be a slubberknocker, old school, smash mouth football experience.
 

GopherGrit said:
Seems wild for schools this large to have even one class with an empty cupboard??

Would love to know for each, how many kids who live in the regular attendance boundary are starting elsewhere, if any
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Agreed about having down classes at big schools.
I was talking to some of the Lakeville North parents at game against Farmington a couple weeks ago and they said North lost a lot of seniors. The roster looked very heavy with juniors.
Then just yesterday I heard that the North 10th grade team is doing really well. So maybe it's a single year blip.
 

Gold Vision said:
Sounds like a shoulder injury from their previous game. Moorhead offense will be formidable all year with the D1 level playmakers at the skill positions.
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Only about 45k population in Moorhead. Granted the district extends far above and below the city proper, but that's almost exclusively farmland (don't think there's even a town in it?)

DGF district goes right up to the border between the two.

So unless there are open enrolls from DGF going in .... just seems interesting that a relatively smallish city is putting out that level of talent.

I know Fargo is much bigger and where a lot of Moorhead people work, but my point still stands as only Moorhead folks can go to Moorhead schools ... I assume it is not possible for ND resident to transfer to Moorhead.
 

LeftofThaDial said:
The Lakeville schools certainly aren’t big for 6A, they may have the smallest enrollment in the class.
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Even if you "only" have 400 per class ... that's around 400 boys per year between seniors and juniors, and just amazing to me that among that many you can ever have an empty cupboard

Or maybe their coaching is really bad?
 

GopherGrit said:
Even if you "only" have 400 per class ... that's around 400 boys per year between seniors and juniors, and just amazing to me that among that many you can ever have an empty cupboard

Or maybe their coaching is really bad?
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Both Lakeville schools have smaller enrollments than Moorhead. Both Lakeville Schools head coaches have won a state title at their school. Some Guy did a great job summarizing why a down year can be really down in the 6A format.
 

GopherVictory said:
Agreed about having down classes at big schools.
I was talking to some of the Lakeville North parents at game against Farmington a couple weeks ago and they said North lost a lot of seniors. The roster looked very heavy with juniors.
Then just yesterday I heard that the North 10th grade team is doing really well. So maybe it's a single year blip.
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Large classes with quality talent usually cut the playing time and reps for the class behind them.


Lakeville North is starting sophomores on varsity so I expect them to be good in 26 and 27.
 

GopherGrit said:
Even if you "only" have 400 per class ... that's around 400 boys per year between seniors and juniors, and just amazing to me that among that many you can ever have an empty cupboard

Or maybe their coaching is really bad?
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Participation in football is not growing. Demographics are not what they used to be.

Some 6A programs have V, JV, 10 and 9. Most 5A have V,JV, and 9.

Some 6A have V, JV, 10A, 10B, 9A and 9B.
 

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