Glenbard West junior quarterback AJ Rayford makes a memorable debut in his first game after transferring from Providence, Hinsdale Central's eye-opening Week 1 rout of West Aurora, plus notes on Lyons and Montini in Bob Narang's Suburban Life football notebook.

St. Francis senior quarterback Brock Phillip, who led two touchdown drives in the final seven minutes to rally his team to a 38-34 win over Kenwood and threw for 346 yards and four TDs, and ran for a fifth score, is the Week 1 Friday Night Drive Team of the Week MVP.

Yorkville sophomore Jayden Ruth makes a game-saving interception in his varsity debut, Sandwich's depth on defense tested in Week 1 loss and Oswego East's fast start in season opener in Joshua Welge's Kendall County football notebook.

Milledgeville's defense stepped up, and sophomore quarterback Kyson Francis threw three touchdown passes as the Missiles beat Amboy 30-22 in a rematch of last year's I8FA state championship

Overcoming earlier injuries, George Jungerman has answered the bell as a versatile athlete for Newman football. 'I’ll play anything for my team to help out.'

A look at the Western Big 6 Conference for the 2025 season, including team-by-team preview capsules, players to watch, can't miss games and Steve Soucie's predicted order of finish.

After older brother, Lyzale, was the lone junior on the Class 7A All-State team and younger brother, Ky'ren, took over the backfield as a freshman, the Edmon brothers are back for Bradley-Bourbonnais this fall.

A perennial state contender in the Illinois 8-Man Football Association, the Polo Marcos look to continue their winning ways behind new senior leaders.

Riley Rauh, Addison Dever and Paityn Lucas decided not to go out for volleyball this fall and were kind of looking for something to do. They became managers for the football team and have been a 'real blessing' Tiger coach Ryan Pearson said.