Friday Night Drive

Friday Night Drive

We have a simple mission at Friday Night Drive: produce in-depth quality high school football coverage for Illinois high school football fans. It’s our goal every day with our award-winning writers and editors to give our listeners high quality coverage of the teams, players and issues they care about in high school football. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/friday-night-drive--3534096/support.

Episodes

October 17, 2025 3 mins
Here are Week 8 area scores from 10 years ago (2015), 25 years ago (2000) and 50 years ago (1975)

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Senior lineman and Lindenwood recruit Jaylen Torres has been an anchor in the trenches throughout his four-year varsity career at St. Francis. Through seven games this year, Torres has 8 sacks and 7 TFLs while posting 9 pancake blocks on the offensive line.

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St. Anne outscored Milford/Cissna Park 42-8 in the second half on Thursday night, allowing the Cardinals to turn a 20-19 halftime deficit into a 61-28 win over the Bearcats.

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This week's guest picker for Week 8 is Brian Stocking, super stats guy for WQAD The Score

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His father played college football at Bowling Green. His older sister is a triathlete at TCU and his older brother wrestles at North Carolina. Now? It's senior linebacker/running back Foley Calcagno's turn to leave his legacy at IC Catholic Prep.

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Join hosts Eddie Carifio, Sam Ramirez and J.T. Pedelty as they preview Week 8 in Illinois high school football in the western and southern portions of northern Illinois.


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Sterling has a big home game against Quincy, No. 5 Newman hosts Kewanee on Saturday, No. 10 Dixon heads to Streator, Fulton and Morrison face off for the Wooden Shoe trophy and more in this week's Sauk Valley football slate.

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Get ready for Week 8 with previews and picks for all the games from around the Kane County Chronicle coverage area.

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Get ready for Week 8 with previews and picks for all the games from around the Suburban Life coverage area.

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October 16, 2025 5 mins
Here's a preview of Week 8 games for Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio, Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede.

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The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 8 of the 2025 season, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

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Looking for a game of consequence in Week 8? You won't have to look far in a loaded slate of high impact contests. Steve Soucie looks at the top games of Week 8.

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Get ready for Week 8 with previews and picks for all the games from around the Kendall County area.

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Here are previews and picks for all of the Week 8 games around the McHenry County area.

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A look at Week 8 across The Times coverage area, including games lined up for Marquette, Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland, Seneca, Sandwich, Streator, Ottawa, Dwight and Fieldcrest.

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A look at the Week 8 football games around the NewsTribune area.

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Geneva linebacker Tyler Drake, who recorded 12 tackles and a tackle for loss, and also went for 33 rushing yards and a touchdown against Glenbard North, is the Week 7 Friday Night Drive Team of the Week MVP.

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Here’s a look at the area leaders from Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede through Week 7 of the 2025 season

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Join hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge as they preview Week 8 in Illinois high school football and dig into where we are heading into the playoffs with only two games left.

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Join hosts Mason Schweizer and Steve Soucie as they preview Week 8 in Kankakee County high school football.

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