Week 1 of the 2025 Iowa high school football season is rapidly approaching.

It's a season full of new hopes, lofty goals and clean slates for teams across the state. Entering Week 1, nothing from a year ago matters and those successes and defeats are irrelevant when the ball is first kicked.

Before we start to see some of the first action of the football season, the high school sports staffs at the Des Moines Register, Ames Tribune and Iowa City Press-Citizen spent time brainstorming some of our boldest takes ahead of all the action.

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