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AD's, Head Football Coaches & 2015 Registered Football Officials-
The football schedules for the 2016 and 2017 football seasons will be released tomorrow morning, Friday, February 26th, a little after 8 AM.
Please make sure that if you are on the website prior to 8 AM that you hit the "refresh" button on your browser every 30 seconds or so, so that you will see the schedules when 8 AM actually occurs. If you are on the website prior to 8 AM and do not hit that "refresh" button, you will never see the schedules.
Here are a few bits of information for you regarding the scheduling process.
1. As of this time, there are no Week 0 contests
2. Practice will begin for all schools on Monday, August 8th
2016
Week 1: Thursday, August 25th and Friday, August 26th.
Week 2: Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd
Week 3: Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th
Week 4: Thursday, September 15th and Friday, September 16th
Week 5: Thursday, September 22nd and Friday, September 23rd
Week 6: Thursday, September 29th and Friday, September 30th
Week 7: Thursday, October 6th and Friday, October 7th
Week 8: Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th
Week 9: Thursday, October 20th and Friday, October 21st
2017
Week 1: Thursday, August 24th and Friday, August 25th.
Week 2: Thursday, August 31st and Friday, September 1st
Week 3: Thursday, September 7th and Friday, September 8th
Week 4: Thursday, September 14th and Friday, September 15th
Week 5: Thursday, September 21st and Friday, September 22nd
Week 6: Thursday, September 28th and Friday, September 29th
Week 7: Thursday, October 5th and Friday, October 6th
Week 8: Thursday, October 12th and Friday, October 13th
Week 9: Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th
3. There are 334 schools playing football for the 2016 football season. All 272 schools in Classes 4A through 1A entered a non-district priority list. 8 player schools, due to the limited number of opponents available had their non-district games selected for them by the IHSAA Of those 272 schools, all 272 schools got at least one of the teams they had on their non-district priority list. This includes games scheduled in which one school may have had a team on their priority list, but their opponent did not have them on their schedule.
4. 15 games had to be scheduled in which neither team had placed the other team on their schedule. Of those, 4 were match-ups between two schools in the same classification (3 in 4A and 1 in 3A) and two match-ups are between schools that are separated by two classifications.
5. No team has 3 home or away games in a row unless requested in writing to our office due to maintenance issues.
6. Due to facility issues and sharing of facilities, it became increasing difficult to create some schedules in which during the first two weeks of the season, teams had one home game and one away game. Several schools will start off the season with either home games weeks 1 and 2, or away games weeks 1 and 2. If you are home weeks 1 and 2, week 3 will be on the road, if are away weeks 1 and 2, you will be at home week 3. In addition, several schools will have road games weeks 8 and 9 for one year and home games weeks 8 and 9 the next.
How to find your schedules:
1. Go to the home page on our website: www.iahsaa.org
2. Click on the "Sports" tab on the top of the page.
3. Using the drop down box, find "Football"
4. Click on 2016 & 2017 Football Schedules.
5. There will be 6 links, one for each classification. The schedules are in alphabetical order, so please provide an opportunity for the entire PDF to downlowd before trying to find your schedule. Both your 2016 and 2017 schedules are available. The schedules should be mirror opposites.
6. Please note that a few Class 3A schools will required to play Thursday night contests if you have Assumption, Davenport on your schedule. The same may be true for any school playing a Davenport school, Cedar Rapids school or a Sioux City school due to the sharing of facilities.
This completes the IHSAA's responsibilities regarding the scheduling of your football contests for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. All schools have 9 home games over the two year redistricting cycle, with either 5 or 4 homes games each year. In addition, within your district, we believe that one year you have 3 home games and the other year you have 4 home games. We are not vain enough to say that these scheduled are 100% etched in stone and cannot be changed regarding any home or away contests or dates. If you and one of your opponents agree to change a site or date, we have no issue with that, please contact us as soon as possible with that change. With that being said, we have attempted to make sure that all schools sharing facilities have opposite schedules so as not to have Thursday or Saturday games and those with 3 schools sharing a facility have been accommodate to try to balance the number of Thursday night contests.
I am out of the office the rest of the day today to attend meetings.
Good luck tomorrow morning as schedules are released. This is a very exciting time for schools and officials.
AD's, Head Football Coaches & 2015 Registered Football Officials-
The football schedules for the 2016 and 2017 football seasons will be released tomorrow morning, Friday, February 26th, a little after 8 AM.
Please make sure that if you are on the website prior to 8 AM that you hit the "refresh" button on your browser every 30 seconds or so, so that you will see the schedules when 8 AM actually occurs. If you are on the website prior to 8 AM and do not hit that "refresh" button, you will never see the schedules.
Here are a few bits of information for you regarding the scheduling process.
1. As of this time, there are no Week 0 contests
2. Practice will begin for all schools on Monday, August 8th
2016
Week 1: Thursday, August 25th and Friday, August 26th.
Week 2: Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd
Week 3: Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th
Week 4: Thursday, September 15th and Friday, September 16th
Week 5: Thursday, September 22nd and Friday, September 23rd
Week 6: Thursday, September 29th and Friday, September 30th
Week 7: Thursday, October 6th and Friday, October 7th
Week 8: Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th
Week 9: Thursday, October 20th and Friday, October 21st
2017
Week 1: Thursday, August 24th and Friday, August 25th.
Week 2: Thursday, August 31st and Friday, September 1st
Week 3: Thursday, September 7th and Friday, September 8th
Week 4: Thursday, September 14th and Friday, September 15th
Week 5: Thursday, September 21st and Friday, September 22nd
Week 6: Thursday, September 28th and Friday, September 29th
Week 7: Thursday, October 5th and Friday, October 6th
Week 8: Thursday, October 12th and Friday, October 13th
Week 9: Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th
3. There are 334 schools playing football for the 2016 football season. All 272 schools in Classes 4A through 1A entered a non-district priority list. 8 player schools, due to the limited number of opponents available had their non-district games selected for them by the IHSAA Of those 272 schools, all 272 schools got at least one of the teams they had on their non-district priority list. This includes games scheduled in which one school may have had a team on their priority list, but their opponent did not have them on their schedule.
4. 15 games had to be scheduled in which neither team had placed the other team on their schedule. Of those, 4 were match-ups between two schools in the same classification (3 in 4A and 1 in 3A) and two match-ups are between schools that are separated by two classifications.
5. No team has 3 home or away games in a row unless requested in writing to our office due to maintenance issues.
6. Due to facility issues and sharing of facilities, it became increasing difficult to create some schedules in which during the first two weeks of the season, teams had one home game and one away game. Several schools will start off the season with either home games weeks 1 and 2, or away games weeks 1 and 2. If you are home weeks 1 and 2, week 3 will be on the road, if are away weeks 1 and 2, you will be at home week 3. In addition, several schools will have road games weeks 8 and 9 for one year and home games weeks 8 and 9 the next.
How to find your schedules:
1. Go to the home page on our website: www.iahsaa.org
2. Click on the "Sports" tab on the top of the page.
3. Using the drop down box, find "Football"
4. Click on 2016 & 2017 Football Schedules.
5. There will be 6 links, one for each classification. The schedules are in alphabetical order, so please provide an opportunity for the entire PDF to downlowd before trying to find your schedule. Both your 2016 and 2017 schedules are available. The schedules should be mirror opposites.
6. Please note that a few Class 3A schools will required to play Thursday night contests if you have Assumption, Davenport on your schedule. The same may be true for any school playing a Davenport school, Cedar Rapids school or a Sioux City school due to the sharing of facilities.
This completes the IHSAA's responsibilities regarding the scheduling of your football contests for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. All schools have 9 home games over the two year redistricting cycle, with either 5 or 4 homes games each year. In addition, within your district, we believe that one year you have 3 home games and the other year you have 4 home games. We are not vain enough to say that these scheduled are 100% etched in stone and cannot be changed regarding any home or away contests or dates. If you and one of your opponents agree to change a site or date, we have no issue with that, please contact us as soon as possible with that change. With that being said, we have attempted to make sure that all schools sharing facilities have opposite schedules so as not to have Thursday or Saturday games and those with 3 schools sharing a facility have been accommodate to try to balance the number of Thursday night contests.
I am out of the office the rest of the day today to attend meetings.
Good luck tomorrow morning as schedules are released. This is a very exciting time for schools and officials.
