Finishing this series is a study of 8-man football. Membership in 8-man football has been quite fluid this decade. The membership has greatly increased since starting in the Rolling Hills conference area. Because of this short history, there are much fewer teams who have exhibited consecutive years of improvement.
Teams with two years of consecutive improvement: (6 teams)
Coon Rapids-Bayard finished the BCMoore rankings #13 in 2007 (07).
Coon Rapids-Bayard finished the BCMoore rankings #11 in 2008 (08).
team 07 08 09 Coon Rapids-Bayard 13 11 7 Corwith CWL 11 8 5 Farminton Harmony 50 41 37 East Greene 30 29 24 Melcher-Dallas 46 38 36 Thornburg Tri-County 31 21 17
Teams with three years of consecutive improvement: (4 teams)
team 06 07 08 09 Coon Rapids-Bayard 34 13 11 7 Corwith CWL 19 11 8 5 Farminton Harmony 54 50 41 37 East Greene 35 30 29 24
Do we have a winner? Actually a tie, 2 teams have improved in 4 consecutive years:
team 05 06 07 08 09 Corwith CWL 38 19 11 8 5 East Greene 46 35 30 29 24
Honorable mention:
06 07 08 09
Armstrong-Ringsted 5 5 1 1
Armstong-Ringsted (12-2) lost the 2008 championship game to Lenox 32-34. They also split the season series with #3 North Sentral Kossuth (total points A-R 63 NSK 48) and beat #2 Stanton 57-20. #5 Lenox finished (13-1) with a loss to #25 Lamoni.