The high school football season kicks off Friday with Metro teams involved in intriguing matchups.
5A, 5th-ranked Cedar Falls plays at Cedar Rapids Prairie. The Tigers are coming off an 8-3 season last year with one of its losses a 24-7 home setback to Prairie.
*You can hear all the coverage of Friday’s Cedar Falls game on our companion station, Cruisin’ KCFI pregame coverage begins at 6:45. Kickoff is at 7.
In other Metro games this Friday, Waterloo West takes on Waterloo East at Memorial Stadium. It will be the 109th all-time meeting between the two rivals. The Wahawks have won the last ten games in the series.
And in 1A, 7th-ranked Waterloo Columbus opens on the road at perennial power Dyersville-Beckman.