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Dowling still No. 1, Waukee Northwest joins Register's Iowa high school football rankings

alyssa hertel, des moines register
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It’s officially past the halfway point of the Iowa high school football season, and the results from Week 5 led to a bit of movement in the Des Moines Register’s class-by-class rankings.

There isn’t as much change as in weeks past because this is the time of year when the top programs remain at the top and the rest of the rankings are pretty well established. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some new teams in the standings this week.

In Class 5A, Dowling remains in the top spot. ADM and Williamsburg are still the No. 1 teams in their respective classes and, in fact, no top-ranked team was taken down.

Van Meter's Caleb Moore runs the ball in for a touchdown. Van Meter is ranked No. 2 in Class 2A in our post-Week 5 rankings.
Van Meter's Caleb Moore runs the ball in for a touchdown. Van Meter is ranked No. 2 in Class 2A in our post-Week 5 rankings.

Here are how the Register’s rankings stand after four weeks of football.

Class 5A

  1. Dowling Catholic (5-0), beat Des Moines Roosevelt 50-0

  2. Southeast Polk (5-0), beat Sioux City East 48-14

  3. Bettendorf (5-0), beat Dubuque Hempstead 49-7

  4. Waukee (4-1), beat Johnston 14-10

  5. Ankeny Centennial (3-2), beat Des Moines East 72-0

  6. Pleasant Valley (4-1), beat Dubuque Senior 56-19

  7. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (3-2), beat Iowa City High 61-34

  8. Ankeny (3-2), beat Iowa City West 48-21

  9. Waukee Northwest (3-2), beat Waterloo West 64-0

  10. Cedar Falls (3-2), beat Linn-Mar 33-21

Class 4A

  1. ADM (4-1), beat Boone 42-0

  2. Gilbert (5-0), beat Hoover 49-0

  3. North Scott (4-1), beat Burlington 48-0

  4. Norwalk (4-1), beat Winterset 37-17

  5. Western Dubuque (4-1), beat Waverly-Shell Rock 35-23

  6. Bondurant-Farrar (4-1), beat Newton 42-21

  7. Lewis Central (3-2), beat Glenwood 49-21

  8. North Polk (4-1), beat Des Moines North 57-0

  9. Glenwood (4-1), lost to Lewis Central 49-21

  10. Xavier (3-2), beat Clinton 42-0

Class 3A

  1. Williamsburg (5-0), beat South Tama 61-6

  2. Creston (5-0), beat Harlan 25-22

  3. Assumption (4-1), beat Fort Madison 38-7

  4. Clear Lake (5-0), beat Webster City 10-2

  5. Hampton-Dumont-CAL (4-1), lost to Humboldt 14-7

  6. Bishop Heelan (4-1), lost to Sioux Center 21-0

  7. Solon (4-1), beat Grinnell 40-7

  8. Mount Vernon (4-1), beat Mount Pleasant 76-14

  9. Algona (4-1), beat Charles City 48-0

  10. Independence (4-1), beat Central DeWitt 39-13

Class 2A

  1. Central Lyon-George/Little Rock (5-0), beat Cherokee 52-7

  2. Van Meter (5-0), beat Clarke 48-10

  3. West Lyon (5-0), beat Western Christian 20-3

  4. Western Christian (4-1), lost to West Lyon 20-3

  5. Spirit Lake (4-1), beat Okoboji 58-0

  6. Monticello (4-1), beat Northeast 55-14

  7. Kuemper Catholic (3-2), beat Greene County 39-3

  8. Osage (3-2), lost to North Fayette Valley 20-8

  9. Greene County (3-2), lost to Kuemper Catholic 39-3

  10. PCM (2-2), game against Union Community postponed until Monday

Class 1A

  1. Grundy Center (5-0), beat Columbus Catholic 21-13

  2. Iowa City Regina (5-0), beat Cascade 49-14

  3. MFL MarMac (4-1), lost to Sumner-Fredericksburg 13-9

  4. Denver (5-0), beat Aplington-Parkersburg 48-0

  5. Underwood (4-1), beat Shenandoah 49-0

  6. Treynor (5-0), beat AHSTW 26-25

  7. Wilton (5-0), beat Durant 34-6

  8. Pella Christian (4-1), beat Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 56-38

  9. Sumner-Fredericksburg (4-1), beat MFL MarMac 13-9

  10. Sigourney-Keota (4-1), beat Pleasantville 31-24

Class A

  1. Woodbury Central (5-0), beat St. Albert 49-15

  2. Madrid (5-0), beat Earlham 13-6

  3. Saint Ansgar (5-0), beat Nashua-Plainfield 28-6

  4. ACGC (5-0), beat Riverside 27-15

  5. West Hancock (4-1), beat West Fork 62-0

  6. Lisbon (5-0), beat Pekin 17-7

  7. Nashua-Plainfield (4-1), lost to Saint Ansgar 28-6

  8. Lynnville-Sully (4-1), beat Wayne 26-10

  9. North Linn (4-1), lost to East Buchanan 41-14

  10. Lake Mills (5-0), beat North Union 20-12

8-Player

  1. Gladbrook-Reinbeck (5-0), beat Janesville 38-8

  2. Winfield-Mt. Union (5-0), beat English Valleys 74-6

  3. CAM-Anita (5-0), beat Exira-EHK 36-12

  4. Bedford (5-0), beat Mormon Trail 76-6

  5. Remsen St. Mary’s (5-0), beat Newell-Fonda 51-18

  6. Clarksville (6-0), beat Turkey Valley 62-22

  7. Don Bosco (4-1), beat West Central 58-0

  8. Lenox (4-1), beat East Union 54-8

  9. WACO (4-1), beat Easton Valley 56-14

  10. Central City (3-1), game against Calamus-Wheatland postponed until Monday

Alyssa Hertel is the college sports recruiting reporter for the Des Moines Register. Contact Alyssa at ahertel@dmreg.com or on Twitter @AlyssaHertel.

This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Waukee Northwest enters Register's Iowa high school football rankings