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.
Is this the best Week 1 in IHSA football history?
Join hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge as they preview an exciting Week 1 in Illinois high school football on the Friday Night Drive podcast.
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Why these Week 1 games are so important for Kankakee County teams
Join hosts Mason Schweizer and Steve Soucie as they preview Week 1 in Illinois high school football for Kankakee County on the Friday Night Drive podcast.
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The games to watch in Week 1 for Kane and DuPage counties
Join hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz as they preview Week 1 in Illinois high school football for Kane and DuPage counties on the Friday Night Drive podcast.
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These are the 2025 IHSA football games to watch in northern Illinois
J.T. Pedelty, Eddie Carifio and Sam Ramirez react to the IHSA football schedule getting released in the latest Friday Night Drive podcast, and break down games in DeKalb and La Salle counties, along with the Sauk Valley region.
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2025 IHSA Football Schedule Preview from Friday Night Drive
Steve Soucie and Josh Welge preview the 2025 IHSA high school football schedule, including games to watch and more in the latest Friday Night Drive podcast.
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IHSA 2025 Football Schedule Release: Western Suburbs
Friday Night Drive's Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz discuss what the IHSA football schedule will look like in the western suburbs for the 2025 season, games they are looking forward to, and more.
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The 2025 IHSA football games we can't wait for in Kankakee County
Steve Soucie and Mason Schweizer discuss the upcoming IHSA football schedule release and how it affects teams in Kankakee County on the latest Friday Night Drive podcast.
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Episode 280: What we learned at the state title games, and we talk public vs. private schools
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they break down the IHSA state football title games this past weekend, and talk about the future of the IHSA playoffs with public and private schools.
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Episode 279: Class 8A-1A state title game previews
Join hosts Steve Soucie, Michal Dwojak and Josh Welge as they get you ready for the exciting matchups in the state title games of the IHSA football playoffs.
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Episode 278: IHSA Title Game Previews and Semifinal Review
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they break down the semifinals of the IHSA football playoffs and look ahead to the state title games.
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Episode 277: Western Suburbs State Finals Preview
Join hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz as they preview the state title games of the IHSA football playoffs in the western suburbs.
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Episode 276: IHSA Playoff Football Semifinal Preview
Join hosts Steve Soucie, Michal Dwojak and Josh Welge as they get you ready for the exciting matchups in the semifinals of the IHSA football playoffs.
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Episode 275: Western Suburbs IHSA Football Semifinal Preview
Join hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz as they preview the semifinal round of the IHSA football playoffs in the western suburbs.
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Episode 274: Reviewing an exciting quarterfinal IHSA playoff round
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they break down the quarterfinals of the IHSA football playoffs and look ahead to the semifinals.
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Episode 273: West and South IHSA Quarterfinal Preview
Join hosts J.T. Pedelty and Eddie Carifio as they break down Round 2 and look ahead to the quarterfinals of the IHSA football playoffs for the western and southern portions of northern Illinois.
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Episode 272: IHSA Quarterfinal Football Playoff Preview
Join hosts Steve Soucie, Michal Dwojak and Josh Welge as they get you ready for the exciting matchups in the quarterfinals of the IHSA football playoffs.
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Episode 271: Western Suburbs Quarterfinal IHSA Playoff Preview
Join hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz as they preview the quarterfinal round of the IHSA football playoffs in the western suburbs.
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Episode 270: Round 2 IHSA playoff football review and quarterfinal lookahead
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they break down Round 2 of the IHSA football playoffs and look ahead to the quarterfinals.
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Episode 269: IHSA Playoff Football Round 2 Preview
Join hosts Steve Soucie, Michal Dwojak and Josh Welge as they get you ready for the exciting matchups in Round 2 of the IHSA football playoffs.
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Episode 268: Round 2 Western Suburbs Playoff Preview
Join hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz as they preview Round 2 of the IHSA football playoffs in the western suburbs.
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Episode 267: West and South IHSA Round 2 Playoff Preview
Join hosts J.T. Pedelty and Eddie Carifio as they break down Round 1 and look ahead to Round 2 of the IHSA football playoffs for the western and southern portions of northern Illinois.
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Episode 266: IHSA Playoff Football Round 1 Review
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they break down Round 1 of the IHSA football playoffs and look ahead to Round 2.
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Episode 265: IHSA Football Western Suburbs Round 1 Playoff Preview
Hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz preview Round 1 of the IHSA football playoffs in the western suburbs.
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Episode 264: IHSA Playoff Football West and South Round 1 Preview
Join hosts Eddie Carifio and J.T. Pedelty as they preview Round 1 in the playoffs in IHSA football for the western and southern part of northern Illinois.
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Episode 263: IHSA Football Playoffs Round 1 Preview
Hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge and guest Michal Dwojak break down Round 1 of the IHSA football playoffs. What matchup is the most exciting for Round 1?
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Episode 262: IHSA Football Week 9 Review and Bracket Thoughts
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they review Week 9 in IHSA football and help get you ready for the first round of the playoffs.
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Episode 261: Week 9 West and South IHSA Football Preview
Join hosts Eddie Carifio and J.T. Pedelty along with guest Sam Ramirez as they break down Week 9 in IHSA football for the western and southern part of northern Illinois and get you ready for the playoffs.
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Episode 260: What will Week 9 mean for the IHSA football playoffs?
Hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge are fired up and ready to dive into an exciting preview of Week 9 in IHSA football
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Episode 259: Week 9 Western Suburbs Preview
Hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz preview Week 9 in the western suburbs for IHSA football on the latest Friday Night Drive podcast, and get you ready for the playoffs.
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Episode 258: IHSA Football Week 8 review and Week 9 lookahead
Hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie recap an interesting Week 8 in Illinois high school football, and get you ready for the playoff pairings on Saturday.
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Episode 257: Week 8 West and South IHSA football preview
Join hosts Eddie Carifio and J.T. Pedelty as they break down Week 8 in IHSA football for the western and southern part of northern Illinois, including the big Dixon vs Byron matchup
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Episode 256: IHSA Football Week 8 Preview: The best matchups as playoffs loom
Hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge and guest Michal Dwojak preview Illinois high school football for Week 8.
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Episode 255: The Western Suburbs matchups everyone is talking about for Week 8
Hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz preview Week 8 in the western suburbs for IHSA football on the latest Friday Night Drive podcast
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Episode 254: Are the IHSA football playoffs going to be chaos?
Hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie review Week 7 in Illinois high school football and start to look ahead to what looks like some different looking playoff brackets this season.
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Episode 253: Week 7 West and South IHSA football preview
Join hosts Eddie Carifio and J.T. Pedelty as they break down Week 7 in IHSA football for the western and southern part of northern Illinois
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Episode 252: Talking playoffs and previewing Week 7 in IHSA football
Hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge talk about the latest proposal to change the IHSA football playoffs, and preview an exciting Week 7.
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Episode 251: The critical western suburbs matchups in Week 7
Hosts Josh Welge and Joel Boenitz preview Week 7 in the western suburbs for IHSA football.
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Episode 250: A wild IHSA football Week 6 review
Join hosts Matt Rodewald and Steve Soucie as they review what was a wild Week 6 in Illinois high school football.
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Episode 249: Week 6 West and South IHSA football preview
Join hosts Eddie Carifio, J.T. Pedelty and guest Sam Ramirez as they break down Week 6 in IHSA football for the western and southern part of northern Illinois
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Episode 248: IHSA Football Week 6 Preview: The BEST Matchups
Hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge are fired up and ready to dive into an exciting preview of Week 6 in IHSA football!
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