Comets’ traditional football opponents no longer in same district
Press Staff Report
CHARLES CITY — Breakups of longtime relationships can be hard to bear.
So respect the feelings of the Charles City Comets football team in the wake of losing Waverly-Shell Rock as a district opponent for at least the next two seasons.
With the Iowa High School Athletic Association adding a seventh class (Class 5A), the Go-Hawks and Decorah — both tradition Class 3A district foes of the Comets — have been bumped up to Class 4A.
Charles City has been assigned to the Class 3A-District 3 group for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
There are some familiar district opponents — Independence, South Tama and West Delaware.
Hampton-Dumont/CAL, a team the Comets regularly scrimmage the Friday before the start of the season, and Center Point-Urbana are also in Charles City’s district.
There are now 36 teams in Class 3A — six teams per each of the six districts.
There will be 16 playoff qualifiers with 12 automatic qualifiers — the top two teams in each district — and four at-large berths.
Each Class 3A team will play five games against teams from their district and four non-district games.
The biggest football class is Eight-Player with 72 teams divided into 10 districts consisting of seven or eight teams each.
Rockford, which advanced to the Eight-Player state championship game in 2018, has been assigned to the Eight-Player-District 3 group which includes Clarksville, Janesville, Riceville, Tripoli, Turkey Valley/Jackson Junction and West Central.
There will be 32 playoff qualifiers in Eight-Player including 30 automatic — top three per distict.
Nashua-Plainfield and North Butler are both in Class A, which has 48 teams divided into eight districts — six teams per district.
Nashua-Plainfield is in Class A-District 3 with AGWSR, BCLUW, Grundy Center, Hudson, North Tama and Wapsie Valley.
North Butler is in Class A-District 2 with Lake Mills, Newman Catholic, North Union, Saint Ansgar, West Fork and West Hancock.
There will be 32 playoff qualifiers in Class A, all automatic — top four per district.
Eight-Player, Class A, Class 1A and Class 2A teams will all play eight regular-season games, but non-playoff qualifiers will be permitted to schedule and play a ninth game at the ends of their seasons.
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