Football 2026: five area teams reach the semifinals, and Idalia and Granada meet Friday
Five area football teams won their quarterfinals this weekend and will play in the semifinals Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21. Two of them, Idalia and Granada, play each other in six-man. Simla lost for the first time this season, and Pueblo County lost its 3A second-round game by one point. Pueblo East won and plays in the 3A quarterfinals.
Here is how each area team fared, from the Colorado High School Activities Association's scoreboards and brackets. The finals are November 27 for six-man and eight-man, November 28 for 1A and December 5 for 3A.
Six-man: Idalia and Granada meet in the semifinals
Idalia beat Wiley 62-0 on Friday and is 12-0. The Wolves have won every game by at least 37 points.
Granada beat Cheyenne Wells 47-14 on Friday in Cheyenne Wells. It was a rematch of a 57-56 Cheyenne Wells win on October 22, one of Granada's two losses. Granada is 8-2.
Idalia and Granada play Friday, November 20. They did not meet in the regular season. CHSAA had not posted a time or site by Sunday morning. In the other semifinal, Fleming plays Peetz. Fleming beat Prairie 50-13 and Peetz beat Otis 41-12. Idalia beat both in the regular season, Fleming 72-14 and Peetz 65-28.
Cheyenne Wells finished 9-3 and Wiley 8-4.
Eight-man: McClave stays unbeaten, Simla's run ends
McClave beat Fowler 42-0 on Friday and is 11-0. The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 577-105 this season. Fowler had scored 36 against them on October 16, the most anyone has.
McClave's semifinal on Friday, November 20, is against Hayden, which ended Simla's season 42-27 on Saturday at Simla. Hayden is 10-1. Its only loss was 38-36 to West Grand on September 25. Simla, unbeaten in the regular season, finished 10-1.
The other semifinal is West Grand against Sedgwick County, which beat Stratton 44-20 on Saturday. McClave beat Sedgwick County 34-6 on September 4. Stratton finished 7-4.
Class 1A: Burlington and Limon both on the road
Burlington beat Centauri 26-0 at home on Saturday and is 10-1. On Saturday, November 21, the Cougars play at Flatirons Academy, CHSAA's bracket shows. Flatirons, seeded ninth, upset top-seeded Meeker 20-16 on Saturday.
Limon beat Rye 42-12 at home on Saturday and is 9-2. The Badgers play at Colorado Springs Christian at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 21. Colorado Springs Christian, seeded 10th, beat second-seeded Denver Christian 40-12. It beat Limon 21-14 on October 10, one of Limon's two losses. Burlington beat Colorado Springs Christian 41-25 on October 30.
If both area teams win, the 1A final on November 28 would be a rematch of Burlington's 34-7 win over Limon on October 23.
Class 3A: Pueblo East on to the quarterfinals
Pueblo East beat Severance 10-7 on Friday at Dutch Clark Stadium and is 10-1. Sixth-seeded Pueblo East plays third-seeded Palisade in the quarterfinals Friday, November 20. CHSAA had not posted a site by Sunday morning.
Pueblo County lost 28-27 at home to ninth-seeded Conifer on Friday and finished 9-2.
The record
Records count every game on CHSAA's daily scoreboards through this weekend. Seeds and semifinal pairings come from its six-man, eight-man, 1A and 3A state brackets. The Press's look at the regular season and first round is here, and the weekly scores are on the school sports scores page.