Nebraska high school football Week 7 recap: upsets, top-10 results and close calls

Week 7 of the Nebraska high school football season produced 138 verified finals from Oct. 8 to Oct. 9, and four ranked teams went down. That leaves two regular-season weeks, ending with the Oct. 22-23 games. NSAA wildcard points stop counting for playoff qualifying and seeding after Week 9. Ranks below are from the poll in effect for Week 7 (the previous-rank column of the Oct. 11 Hurrdat Sports poll).

Upsets

The biggest shake-ups: No. 8 Medicine Valley beat No. 4 Arthur County 53-31 in Class D6; Crete beat No. 10 Platteview 21-14 in Class B; No. 3 Shelby-Rising City beat No. 1 East Butler 40-22 in Class D2; No. 4 Twin Loup beat No. 3 Burwell 26-20 in Class D3.

How the top 10s fared

No. 1 Gretna rolled past York 49-13. No. 1 Ashland-Greenwood rolled past Arlington 46-6. No. 1 Central Valley rolled past CWC 62-0. No. 1 GICC rolled past Central City 50-6. No. 1 Garden County rolled past Potter-Dix 74-26. No. 1 Johnson-Brock rolled past Falls City 88-20. No. 1 Omaha Westside rolled past Norfolk 63-0. No. 3 Shelby-Rising City beat No. 1 East Butler 40-22. No. 2 Boys Town rolled past Auburn 55-7. No. 2 Cedar Catholic rolled past Summerland 61-7.

Down to the wire

Six games were decided by three points or fewer: Norfolk Catholic 21, Battle Creek 20; Roncalli 16, Concordia Omaha 15; Sutton 21, Elmwood-Murdock 20; Lincoln Pius X 14, Seward 13; Chase County 14, Bridgeport 12; Douglas County West 17, Raymond Central 14.

At the other end, the most lopsided finals were Gothenburg 76, Wood River 0; Tekamah-Herman 78, Cedar Bluffs 6; Lawrence-Nelson 72, Falls City Sacred Heart 0.

Still unbeaten

28 teams are unbeaten in NSAA results after Week 7: A: Bennington (7-0), Millard South (7-0), Omaha Westside (7-0); B: Gretna (7-0), Scottsbluff (7-0); C1: Ashland-Greenwood (7-0), Boys Town (7-0), Pierce (7-0), Sidney (7-0); C2: Bergan Catholic (7-0), Boone Central (7-0), Cedar Catholic (7-0), GICC (7-0), Ord (7-0); D1: Hartington-Newcastle (7-0), Johnson-Brock (7-0), Ravenna (7-0), Stanton (7-0); D2: Loomis (7-0), North Platte St. Pat's (7-0), Shelby-Rising City (7-0); D3: Brady (7-0), Lawrence-Nelson (7-0); D6: Lewiston (6-0), Leyton (6-0), McCool Junction (6-0), Medicine Valley (6-0), Stuart (7-0).

Four games were decided by forfeit. NSAA records those as 1-0, and we list them as forfeits rather than scores.

Every final, sorted by class, is on the scores page, and the playoff race is tracked on the wildcard standings.