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Here's the schedule of season-opening games and preseason polls for Alaska football

Friday's games

West at Soldotna, 6 p.m.
Houston at Kodiak, 6 p.m.
Thunder Mountain at Juneau, 6 p.m.
Colony at Bartlett, 7 p.m.
Wasilla at Eagle River, 7 p.m.
East at Palmer, 7 p.m.
Service at West Valley, 7 p.m.
Monroe at Redington, 7 p.m. (Wasilla High)

Saturday's games

Nikiski at Valdez, 11 a.m.
Ketchikan at Seward, 1 p.m.
Homer at Eielson, 1 p.m.
Kenai at South, 2 p.m.
North Pole at Lathrop, 5 p.m.
Chugiak at Dimond, 7 p.m.

(Byes: Barrow, Voznesenka)

Alaska Sports Broadcasting Network preseason polls

Large schools
1) West
2) Chugiak
3) Colony
4) Bartlett
5) East

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Medium/small schools
1) Soldotna
2) North Pole
3) Eielson
4) Juneau
5) Thunder Mountain

An early version of the medium/small-school poll did not include Thunder Mountain's fifth-place ranking.

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