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Gopher State Football League and Let’s Play Football announce partnership

Let’s Play Football to provide coverage of youth football through GSFL Let’s Play Football is proud to announce a partnership with the Gopher State Football League heading into the 2025 football season. The Gopher State Football League is under the direction of Minnesota Youth Athletic Services and will serve as the organizational structure for youth […]

Howie does it: Forest Lake lineman is the real deal

Gopher recruit senior has high hopes for his Forest lake squad Let’s Play Football had the opportunity this summer to sit down for an interview with Minnesota Golden Gophers commit Howie Johnson. Johnson is a defensive lineman who is entering his senior season with Forest Lake High School, who is now 2-0 after a convincing […]

Week 2 Recap: Edina Handles Rival Wayzata in Let’s Play Football Game of the Week

Balanced Hornets offense leads the way in 40-14 victory by Robert Brent, Let’s Play Football Edina opened its home schedule Friday night with a rivalry clash against Wayzata in Let’s Play Football’s game of the week. The matchup also served as a celebration of the Hornets’ seniors, a group talented enough to have state-title aspirations. […]

Stewartville wins first title in program history

Prep Bowl Class AAA Stewartville 43, Annandale 13 Stewartville’s dominating season ends with first state title To get an idea of how dominant Stewartville was in Class AAA football this season, one needs to look at just one stat: The Tigers had more wins than touchdowns allowed. After dropping down to Class 3A from 4A, […]

Nevis has a new title – STATE CHAMPION

Prep Bowl 9-Player Nevis 14, Kingsland 12 Tigers win school’s first state title “State Champion.” When the kids strap on their shoulder pads in mid-August and coaches grab their clipboard and press play for another late night of watching film, the term “state champion” lingers somewhere in their minds, much like the term millionaire lingers […]

BACK ON TOP

Prep Bowl Class AAAA Hutchinson 14, Rocori 6   Hutchinson wins defensive battle to claim 4A title by Malik Mitchell Hutchinson is back on top. After winning the Class AAAA title in 2021, the Tigers found themselves on the losing end in last year’s Prep Bowl 34-24 to Simley. But after a hard-fought 14-6 win […]

Barnesville wins turnover battle, game to advance to Prep Bowl

Momentum shift in second half gives Trojans 38-23 win Class AA Semifinal Barnesville 38, Jackson County Central 23 by Bryan Zollman After a great first half in which they built a 15-6 lead, Jackson County Central received the ball to start the second half. But on the first play from scrimmage sophomore quarterback Roman Voss […]

Defense on Display

Rocori’s lone score enough to defeat Byron Class AAAA State Senifinal Rocori 7, Byron 0 by Bryan Zollman In about as evenly as a football game could be played, about midway through the third quarter between Section 1AAAA winner Byron (10-1) and Section 8AAAA winner Rocori (9-2), it was clear that whoever could score as […]

Kingsland runs past Fertile-Beltrami to earn Prep Bowl berth

Knights rush for 400-plus yards to stave off pesky Falcons 9-Player State Semifinal Kingsland 36, Fertile-Beltrami 28 by Bryan Zollman The Kingsland Knights remained undefeated in 9-player football by holding off a pestering Fertile-Beltrami squad in a 36-28 win in the state semifinals held at US Bank Stadium. The Knights rushed for 417 yards on the […]

ON THE CUSP

14 games remaining, all with one final goal in mind by Malik Mitchell, Let’s Play Football Staff Writer   There are only two weeks remaining in the Minnesota high school football season. This week’s semifinals go from Thursday through Saturday, with the championship games taking place on November 24–25. Here is a preview for each […]