The Herald-News prep football preview capsules for Week 3, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

A group of 23 new teams worked their way into the projection this week. Where do they fit? And how did they change the projected classification breaks for all eight classes. Steve Soucie breaks down how the playoff field projects after the second week of games.

As good as its offense is, the Lincoln-Way East defense has not allowed a point yet this season. That, plus Jonas Williams continues his move up IHSA record books and notes on Morris and Joliet Central in The Herald-News football notebook.

Defensive linemen Chace Bachert finished with three sacks and two tackles for a loss, while Caeden Curran ran for 183 yards. That helped Morris earn a 33-14 win over Mahomet-Seymour

Join hosts Eddie Carifio and JT Pedelty as they preview Week 2 in DeKalb, La Salle and Grundy counties on the Friday Night Drive podcast

The Herald-News prep football capsules for Week 2, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The IHSA's changes to the multiplier rules altered the way that the 2025 playoffs are likely to look. And the first regular season projection reflected that fact. Steve Soucie's first playoff projection of the season predicts how all eight classes of the field will look.

There were a number of big games on the Week 1 calendar. Very few of them didn't live up to the billing, Steve Soucie takes a look at what we learned in Week 1.

A Quaid Phillips end-around out of the Wildcat with less than a minute to play lifted Morris past Wilmington 27-20 in a much-anticipated matchup of state powerhouses.