Football 2022-2023 Football Declarations

[LooseCannon]

Here is the final and complete list of football declarations

 

[just_average32]

Updated list of possible Class C with today's declarations. The order is based on last schedule cycle classification. I put wood river by Lincoln Lutheran because of their stand alone enrollment. We don't know enrollment numbers yet so we don't have a final order or even a confirmed amount of teams with the possible Class B drop downs. At a MAXIMUM it will be 73 total teams and and that means about 36 in each.

#	Class C
1	Alliance - SOURCE CONFIRMED
2	McCook ? rumor low class 172ish ? - SOURCE CONFIRMED
3	Omaha Roncalli ? 162ish ?
4	York ? 162ish ?
5	Aurora ? 152ish ? - SOURCE CONFIRMED
6	Schuyler (Opt down)
7	Nebraska City (Opt down)
8	Platteview
9	Sidney
10	Ogallala
11	Wahoo
12	Wayne
13	Holdrege
14	Cozad
15	West Point Beemer
16	DC West
17	Columbus Lakeview
18	Boys Town
19	Adams Central
20	Auburn
21	Ashland-Greenwood
22	Chadron
23	Fairbury
24	Gothenburg
25	Omaha Concordia
26	Pierce
27	Falls City
28	Minden
29	Broken Bow
30	Columbus Scotus
31	Arlington
32	St. Paul
33	Fort Calhoun
34	Lincoln Christian
35	Boone Central
36	LVSS
37	Central City
38	Raymond Central
39	O'Neill
40	Milford
41	Mitchell
42	Kearney Catholic
43	Louisville
44	Fillmore Central
45	Malcolm
46	Battle Creek
47	North Bend Central
48	Gordon Rushville
49	Gibbon
50	Syracuse
51	Bishop Neumann
52	Wood River (67ish)
53	Lincoln Lutheran
54	Ord
55	David City
56	Norfolk Catholic
57	Wilber-Clatonia
58	Centura
59	Aquinas
60	GICC
61	Hershey
62	Centennial
63	Yutan
64	Tekamah-Herman
65	Ponca
66	Hartington CC
67	Oakland-Craig
68	Bergan
69	Chase County
70	Doniphan Trumbull
71	Hastings St. Cecilia
72	Amherst
73	West Holt
74	Tri County

 

[rufuller]

Updated list of possible Class C with today's declarations. The order is based on last schedule cycle classification. I put wood river by Lincoln Lutheran because of their stand alone enrollment. We don't know enrollment numbers yet so we don't have a final order or even a confirmed amount of teams with the possible Class B drop downs. At a MAXIMUM it will be 73 total teams and and that means about 36 in each.

#	Class C
1	Omaha Gross ? rumor - unlikeyl - 181ish ?
2	McCook ? rumor low class 172ish ?
3	Omaha Roncalli ? 162ish ?
4	York ? 162ish ?
5	Aurora ? 152ish ?
6	Schuyler (Opt down)
7	Nebraska City (Opt down)
8	Platteview
9	Sidney
10	Ogallala
11	Wahoo
12	Holdrege
13	Cozad
14	West Point Beemer
15	DC West
16	Columbus Lakeview
17	Boys Town
18	Adams Central
19	Auburn
20	Ashland-Greenwood
21	Chadron
22	Fairbury
23	Gothenburg
24	Omaha Concordia
25	Pierce
26	Falls City
27	Minden
28	Broken Bow
29	Columbus Scotus
30	Arlington
31	St. Paul
32	Fort Calhoun
33	Lincoln Christian
34	Boone Central
35	LVSS
36	Central City
37	Raymond Central
38	O'Neill
39	Milford
40	Mitchell
41	Kearney Catholic
42	Louisville
43	Fillmore Central
44	Malcolm
45	Battle Creek
46	North Bend Central
47	Gordon Rushville
48	Gibbon
49	Syracuse
50	Bishop Neumann
51	Wood River (67ish)
52	Lincoln Lutheran
53	Ord
54	David City
55	Norfolk Catholic
56	Wilber-Clatonia
57	Centura
58	Aquinas
59	GICC
60	Hershey
61	Centennial
62	Yutan
63	Tekamah-Herman
64	Ponca
65	Hartington CC
66	Oakland-Craig
67	Bergan
68	Chase County
69	Doniphan Trumbull
70	Hastings St. Cecilia
71	Amherst
72	West Holt
73	Tri County

Confirmed that Alliance and McCook are moving down to C. Gross is opting up to B. Don't know on Aurora, York, or Roncalli. I had a total of 74 teams in class C Maximum.

 

[nenebskers]

I was hearing rumors that St. Paul wanted to opt up to Class B from a very reliable source. Not sure why they didn't pull the trigger.

Why would they opt up?

 

[rufuller]

Why would they opt up?

Not gonna happen!

 

[LooseCannon]

Confirmed that Alliance and McCook are moving down to C. Gross is opting up to B. Don't know on Aurora, York, or Roncalli. I had a total of 74 teams in class C Maximum.

Alliance needs to be C1 for the foreseeable future IMO.

McCook is such an outlier. Their location is awful no matter their class. It seems like they will be C1 for this cycle but we will see how long that lasts. But I bet they will like playing Cozad, OG, GBerg, Holdrege, and Minden.

Roncalli will be C1. York and Aurora will be close, but seems to be quite a bit of smoke Aurora will be C1 too.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Wayne is missing from that list.....I'd assume they'd be towards the top

 

[balsy]

Wayne is missing from that list.....I'd assume they'd be towards the top

Ya Wayne was like 154 or 156 last cycle

 

[balsy]

Confirmed that Alliance and McCook are moving down to C. Gross is opting up to B. Don't know on Aurora, York, or Roncalli. I had a total of 74 teams in class C Maximum.

So class b west district is gonna be scottsbluff, Gering, Lex, and……….Gi NW, maybe Hastings? That sucks for whoever gets thrown in with them. Road warriors. They should start playing Saturday mornings in north platte

 

[just_average32]

I updated the list above with the corrections. I added Wayne (I skipped over them) and Alliance. Then I took off Omaha Gross with the idea of them opting up. So looks like a likely 74 for a maximum, and still a possible 37 team split.

 

[Alum-Ni]

https://omaha.com/sports/high-schoo...tent=0f484b5ffc1d1f764465797f0513f476f8b39d1a

Omaha's two new high schools, Buena Vista and Westview, will join the Metro Conference when they open next fall and will be in Class A in all sports but football.

The two schools, which will open with only freshmen and sophomores next year, are asking for Class B football schedules from the NSAA.

Their addition will expand the Metro Conference to 20 boys and 20 girls schools, the highest membership since 1981 when the league had 21 boys and 21 girls members.

Omaha Gross will stay in Class B, but Omaha Roncalli will be in C1 next year. Both schools saw their enrollments drop below the cutoff of 160 boys to be in Class B, but Gross decided to opt-up.

Amherst and Atkinson West Holt are going from 8-man to 11-man.

Bridgeport, Crofton, North Platte St. Patrick's, Superior, Sutton and Twin River are moving from 11-man to 8-man.

McCool Junction and Silver Lake are moving from 6-man to 8-man.

Brady and Garden County are moving from 8-man to 6-man.

Two co-ops have been dissolved: Bancroft-Rosalie and Lyons-Decatur Northeast will each compete as 8-man teams. Wood River will stay in 11-man and their former partner Shelton will play 6-man.

There are two new football co-ops, both will play 8-man: Tri County Northeast (Allen and Emerson-Hubbard) and Riverside/Spalding Academy.

There will be 131 11-man teams, 115 8-man teams and 34 in 6-man.

 

[swnebr]

Alliance needs to be C1 for the foreseeable future IMO.

McCook is such an outlier. Their location is awful no matter their class. It seems like they will be C1 for this cycle but we will see how long that lasts. But I bet they will like playing Cozad, OG, GBerg, Holdrege, and Minden.

Roncalli will be C1. York and Aurora will be close, but seems to be quite a bit of smoke Aurora will be C1 too.

McCook is a only a 1 cycle drop. avg enrollment 12th-3rd grade is 127. what is pushing them down is low boy #'s in soph class. 77 girls 50 boys, and low #'s boy #'s in frosh class 35 boys 65 girls. all classes for the foreseeable future have over 70 boys. Will not be in C1 in nay other sport.