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Published 1:15 pm Wednesday, September 3, 2008

In case you missed it, our 2008 Western Conference football preview is in today’s paper and online. The cover story is about prolific Wesco South running backs Tony Heard (Edmonds-Woodway) and Taylor Cox (Jackson).

To see a long list of Wesco preview stories and capsules, click here. And don’t forget: Our Cascade Conference football preview comes out tomorrow.

Local gridiron teams kick off their seasons Friday. Some of the most intriguing Week One matchups are:

*Cascade at Oak Harbor, 7 p.m. at Wildcat Memorial Stadium

*Glacier Peak at Arlington, 7 p.m. at Larson Stadium

*Lynden at Archbishop Murphy, 7 p.m. at Terry Ennis Stadium

*Kamiak at Snohomish, 7 p.m. at Snohomish Veterans Memorial Stadium

*Edmonds-Woodway at Meadowdale, 8 p.m. at Edmonds District Stadium

*Lake Stevens at Mariner, 7 p.m. at Goddard Stadium

I’ll be at the Glacier Peak vs. Arlington game, where a first-year program (Glacier Peak) and a pair of new head coaches (Rory Rosenbach and Greg Dailer, respectively) will see how their young squads react to opening-night excitement.

In the meantime, take a look at the MaxPreps preseason state football rankings. Teams are ranked regardless of classification.

RankSchool

1.Skyline (Sammamish)

2.Prosser

3.Lewis &Clark (Spokane)

4.Ferris (Spokane)

5.O’Dea (Seattle)

6.Bothell

7.Burlington-Edison

8.Royal (Royal City)

9.Edmonds-Woodway

10.Ferndale

11.Archbishop Murphy

12.Bellevue

13.Woodinville

14.Oak Harbor

15.Cascade Christian (Puyallup)

16.Mead (Spokane)

17.Central Valley (Veradale)

18.Pierce (Tacoma)

19.Lynden

20.Graham-Kapowsin (Graham)

21.Olympia

22.Evergreen (Vancouver)

23.Othello

24.Moses Lake

25.Connell