The 2025 season begins this week with an almost full schedule of games. Here are a few tidbits entering the season.

   *  We are back with for our nineteenth season of covering high school football in Alabama. Once again we will be releasing a weekly 'Tidbits and Records' article. We do ask that if you see something wrong on the website pertaining to a game score please let us know and it will be corrected. Thanks to all the fans who constantly work to assist us with this project throughout the year.

   *  There were no less than 111 coaching changes during the off season. That number is slightly above the average for the past few decades. It should be exciting to watch the coaches and how they impact their various football programs in the years to come.

   *  There are some of excellent interstate matchups to open the 2025 football season. The Hoover Bucs will entertain IMG Academy out of central Florida to open the season on Thursday night. Also on Thursday Moody will travel to Gainesville GA to take on the Red Elephants. The next night Oxford will host Central Carrolton, Georgia in a rematch of a great game played last year. In other Friday night games; Mary Montgomery will host Pace FL and Coosa Christian is on the road to face off with the perennial powerhouse Pierce County, Georgia.

   *  Other great games across the state this week include Hartselle (9-3) at Austin (9-2), Parker (14-1) at Ramsay (8-4), Saraland (13-1) at Jackson (14-1), Cherokee County (13-2) at Piedmont (13-1), Reeltown (14-1) at T.R. Miller (12-1), and Leroy (10-2) at Thomasville (11-1). Many other games will be important as teams prepare for a long regular season.

   *  The ASWA polls are out and as usual we have a few notes there. Southside Selma, the #8 team in 3A, are ranked for the first time since midway through the 1989 football season. Pleasant Valley also joins the 2A poll as the #10 team for the first time since 1984.

   *  Fyffe has been ranked by the ASWA for an amazing 176 consecutive polls dating back to the 2009 season. The Red Devils open the 2025 season as the #3 team in 3A and face an excellent Maplesville team on August 22nd in the AHSAA Kickoff Classic in Montgomery.

   *   Catholic Montgomery begins the 2025 football season riding the state's longest winning streak at twenty-nine games. Jackson and Reeltown are just behind them with 14 game streaks.

   *   Columbia now holds onto the longest losing streak at 91 straight contests. They now hold the all-time record for consecutive losses.

   *   Catholic Montgomery has a streak of 40 consecutive region wins. The Knights open region play in a couple of weeks. Demopolis (28) and Reeltown (23) are the next two schools with long region winning streaks.

   *   Columbia has lost 55 consecutive region games but do not begin region play for a couple of weeks.

   *  The #3 ranked Catholic Montgomery Knights have won 43 straight regular season games. Central Clay County is behind with a string of 26 consecutive regular season wins.

   *   Saraland, ranked #3 in 6A, enters the 2025 season with a string of 33 consecutive home wins. The Spartans will host Gulf Shores on their home field in week three.

   *   Catholic Montgomery also holds onto the longest road winning streak having won 28 consecutive road games. Their first away game is against St. Clair County on 8/29.

   *   Clay-Chalkville has won 14 consecutive season openers and will open this season on 8/22 against Hueytown on the road.

   *   Gordo will try to extend their streak of 32 straight winning seasons. Gordo has won at least nine games in each of the last eleven seasons so they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. The Green Wave last suffered through a losing season way back in 1992 when they finished with a 4-6 record. Oneonta owns the longest streak all-time when they won more games than they lost every year between 1956-1994. Demopolis (30) and Fyffe (28) are not far behind.

   *   Fyffe hopes to avoid the dreaded shutout and extend their streak of consecutive games scoring. They are currently sitting on a string of 333 games without being shutout. T.R. Miller sits atop this list with a string of 354 games.

   *   The Luverne Tigers will be working hard to extend their string of qualifying for the playoffs to 43 consecutive seasons under second year head coach Bobby Hudson. He is the tenth different coach during the streak. The last time they did not qualify for the playoffs was way back in 1982.

   *   Curry has suffered through twenty-eight consecutive losing seasons. The Yellow Jackets finished last year with a 0-10 record. That is the third longest in history behind only R.C. Hatch with a string of 36 straight losing seasons and Vina with 33 straight losing seasons.

   *   Ten coaches will be in search of their 100th win as a head football coach once the season opens. All have over 90 victories during their careers. Other coaches are within reach of several different milestones this season.

Team approaching the 700 win club
  698  -  Thomasville  (698-351-49)
  692  -  Demopolis  (692-336-42)

Team approaching the 600 win club
   599  -  Addison  (599-309-13)
   599  -  Fort Payne  (599-411-30)
   598  -  Prattville  (598-421-27)
   594  -  Cherokee County  (594-437-30)
   593  -  Foley  (593-366-27)
   591  -  Leroy  (591-407-26)

Team approaching the 500 win club
  498  -  Thompson  (498-391-14)
  496  -  Pike County  (496-396-18)
  491  -  Washington County  (491-398-22)
  490  -  Notasulga  (490-439-17)
  490  -  Lamar County  (490-492-46)


Coaches approaching the 300 win club
  294  -  Steve Smith (Westbrook Christian)  (294-90)

Coaches approaching the 250 win club
  245  -  Stacy Luker (South Choctaw Academy)  (245-102)

Coaches approaching the 200 win club
  195  -  Mike Battles Jr. (Southern Academy)  (195-109)
  192  -  Jeff Kelly (Saraland)  (192-71)
  191  -  Jason Allen  (Chambers Academy)  (191-85-1)
  191  -  Keith Etheredge  (Auburn)  (191-61)

Coaches approaching the 150 win club
  149  -  Danny Raines (Berry Fayette)  (149-101)
  144  -  Brian Seymore (Trinity)  (144-72)
  142  -  Alton Hudson (Sparta Academy)  (142-137)

Coaches approaching the 100 win club
  97  - Jason Massey (Clarke County)  (97-52)
  95  - Bryan Moore (Opelika)  (95-24)
  92  - Darrell Higgins (Mars Hill)  (98-60)
  91  - George Bates (Shades Valley)  (91-60)
  91  - Ben Berguson (Homewood)  (91-52)
  90  - Sam Adams (Oxford)  (90-44)
  90  - Richie Busby (Helena)  (90-43)
  90  - Josh Floyd (Hewitt-Trussville)  (90-38)
  90  - Matt Geohagan (Bibb County)  (90-31)
  90  - Chris Musso (Oak Grove)  (90-89)