By Don Ketchum

Different teams have different agendas entering the final regular-season weekend of big-school football in Phoenix and north-northeast-northwest Arizona.

If you are Peoria Liberty, you are looking for a second straight 10-0 regular season when you visit Goodyear Desert Edge in a Class 4A Division II Skyline Region game on Friday night.

If you are Desert Edge (7-2), you want to finish the best regular season in school history on a strong note and earn a good spot in the playoffs that begin next week.

How about if you are Phoenix Alhambra (0-9) or host Phoenix Carl Hayden (1-8)? You aren’t going to the playoffs, but a win in the finale would leave a sweet, not a bitter, taste.

The same thing is true for Flagstaff city rivals Flagstaff High (0-9) and Flagstaff Coconino (2-7). They meet again in Northern Arizona University’s Walkup Skydome at 7:30 on Friday night. The intensity would be the same if both were unbeaten, and this year’s game has the additional story line of transfers on both sides from now-closed Flagstaff Sinagua.

Other top games (Friday unless noted) . . .

Goodyear Millennium (7-2) at Avondale Westview (7-2) on Thursday night (Nov. 4). Westview is coming off a 41-21 loss to rival Peoria Centennial, and needs a strong finish to secure a good playoff spot in this Class 5A Desert West Region game. Millennium also wants to show that it won’t be left out of the playoff equation.

Phoenix Greenway (6-3) at Phoenix Washington (8-1).  Greenway will have to find a way to limit the damage from Washington dual-threat quarterback Devonte Smythe.

Glendale Raymond S. Kellis (7-2) at Peoria (7-2). Peoria continues to make a strong late-season push for what it hopes will be a long playoff run.

Phoenix Pinnacle (5-4) at Phoenix Horizon (7-2). It’s doubtful that anyone will be able to challenge fellow Class 5A Desert Valley team Scottsdale Chaparral, but these two teams are looking to get in. It obviously is more of a must-win for Pinnacle.

Prescott (5-4) at Phoenix Shadow Mountain (5-4). Shadow Mountain has had a solid second half under first-year coach Mike Giovando, and can reach the playoffs with a win, something a lot of the Matadors’ predecessors could not say.