High School football teams hope Halloween playoffs don’t end in a nightmare

Eighty teams take the field tonight for the opening round of the high school football playoffs. the first game of a doubleheader in the UNI-Dome features class A top-ranked and defending state champion Hubbard-Radcliffe against sixth ranked East Buchanan. Hubbard-Radcliffe coach Bill Huebner says he expects to see the wishbone formation. He says East Buchanan doesn’t have a lot of size, but is a fast team.Huebner says there is no added pressure being the defending champ. He says they see themselves as one of the best sixteen teams in the state and feel if they do the things they’re supposed to, everything will work out.