AP poll slights Bulldogs
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By Andrew Petersen | Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
I’d love to consider myself a true prognosticator.
But I can’t see into the future any more than anyone else. Maybe less sometimes.
Sports polls are predictions, fun, but no guarantee.
More than anything, they stir conversation, and the first Iowa prep football poll has done just that.
The poll is done by the Iowa Associated Press. At the Times, we subscribe to this service, but no one here has any voting say in this list.
My grievance is with the 4A rankings.
Bettendorf isn’t the No. 1 team. The Bulldogs were nearly third. In the Des Moines Register’s poll, they are.
Maybe West Des Moines Valley is the best team in the state. I haven’t seen the Tigers play and probably won’t until the state semifinals.
Valley played great defense last year and lost in the semis to Ankeny, who Bettendorf narrowly beat for the state title.
But Valley only received three of the nine first-place votes. Bettendorf nabbed two, but it was Cedar Rapids Washington that got four.
Washington went 8-3 last year, losing in the quarterfinals. The Warriors logged a 19-point win over Cedar Falls in Week 1.
Maybe they are the best.
To me, it’s too early in the season to know much. And not knowing much about this year’s players, coaches and teams, you have to defer to last season — a season in which Bettendorf finished on top.
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