Week 8 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: Terrific Tigers, Beastly Blackcats Save the Day on a Week of Gut Checks for the Dirty Dozen

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 19, 2025 | News, Recaps

Festus 41, Farmington 36 Do you need The Gridiron Geek to say it was the best Festus R-6 Homecoming win of modern day? Maybe not, but it will still be fun to go over it together. The 7-1 Festus Tigers unexpectedly slumped last week with a sloppy 56-28 loss at DeSmet....

Week 7 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: DeSoto Dragons Welcome New Era After Upset Win, Grandview Spoils Homecoming at Jefferson High

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 12, 2025 | News, Recaps

DeSoto 26, Hillsboro 20 It was, by any litmus, the best and the most important football game that DeSoto has played in this decade. The underclass QB Cannon Kisner led the Dragons over the top versus the Mississippi Conference’s longest-reigning underdog...

Week 6 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: Cohenn Stark, Northwest Lions Shock Fox Warriors with a Watershed Win on Homecoming

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 4, 2025 | News, Recaps

Northwest 48, Fox 20 There’s still smoke wafting off the field in Cedar Hill this morning – and we’re not talking about any Homecoming fireworks that were set off. There was no need for “Star Spangled Banner with Report” at the...

Week 5 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: Festus Set for Another Go at the Grail After Romping Hillsboro 40-14

by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 28, 2025 | News, Recaps

Festus 40, Hillsboro 14 The Geek is torn between business, personal, and professional matters as another week of Jefferson County pigskin stands ready to recap. It would be nice if we could just publish Friday Night Scores & Analysis on Saturday evening from now...

Week 4 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: Big River’s Teams Loom Large Following Crazy Last-Second Triumphs

by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 21, 2025 | News, Recaps

Northwest 42, Webster Groves 35 When does Mississippi Magazine break its rule about county-vs-county recaps going on top? When both Big River teams win in heart-stopping style, that’s when! Northwest and Grandview played their trademark brand of pigskin on...

Week 3 Friday Night Scores & Analysis: Heartbreakers Hurt the Dirty Dozen as St. Pius, Fox, DeSoto, and Herky Lose by 7 Combined Points

by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 13, 2025 | News, Recaps

North County 14, DeSoto 13 The Geek is not planning to post a Jefferson County Power Poll in Week 4. There were so many heartbreaking defeats for the Dirty Dozen this weekend that ranking everybody now would lead to bad expectations for next Friday. Inevitably, some...