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Central Catholic High School's Lorenzo Thomas, right, and South Allegheny's Mike Lucas battle for position in a 130-pound match last season.

Who better to get a handle on Saturday's Steamboat Springs-Pueblo Central Class 3A high school football playoff game than a team that played them both this season? The Sailors and Wildcats square off at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Pueblo's Dutch Clark Stadium for the right to play in next Saturday's 3A state championship game.

This weekend will be a reunion of sorts for Mike Hankwitz - one that he is not looking forward to.

The secret to success for the Delta High School football team all season had been controlling the tempo with its running game and defense.

This might be Delta High School football coach Ben Johnson's first season as a head coach in Colorado, but this isn't his first rodeo.

By the time Will Johnson got into the end zone, it was too late. Johnson's touchdown accounted for the final points on the Berry Center scoreboard but Johnson and his Westwood teammates were still eliminated from the playoffs on Saturday.

The Palisade High School football team has never pretended to be something it's not.

There won't be another long bus trip for the Algoma football team this season. The Wolves , who traveled about 900 miles in 12 days for three playoff games, came up short of their ultimate destination, falling 26-21 to Racine Lutheran in a WIAA Division 6 quarterfinal matchup at Horlick Field last Saturday.

Every one of the Palisade High School football team's six wins this season were important.

Four names appear on Northwestern's latest injury report. Mike Kafka's is not one of them.

Sometimes in Iowa, merely believing is enough. A part-time play-by-play man for a Davenport radio station went on to Des Moines, and later Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States.

This week's game against the Northwestern Wildcats is the classic trap game for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Northwestern has issued its official injury report for Saturday's game at No.

Once the veterans of the defense, Northwestern's secondary has become the rookies.

In the end, the game marked the biggest comeback in the history of Northwestern football.

Pat Fitzgerald often uses the metaphor "fighting with two fists" to describe his football team, meaning two facets of the team must work in tandem to be successful.

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Northwestern has issued its official injury report for Saturday's game at Michigan State .

Northwestern's weekly injury report deserves attention for a name that does not appear: Stephen Simmons .

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Northwestern has issued its official injury report for Saturday's game against Miami .

Northwestern's victory on Saturday was in no small part due to its special teams play.