The 2025 season in underway with an almost full schedule of games. Here are a few tidbits from this past week's games.

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   *   The AHSAA Kickoff Classic saw Pike Road defeat Prattville 21-14 and Maplesville stop Fyffe by a score of 35-6.

   *   There were some excellent interstate matchups to open the 2025 football season. On Thursday Moody fell to Gainesville GA 49-7. The Hoover Bucs came up short to IMG Academy 34-13. Oxford hosted Central Carrolton, Georgia in a rematch of a great game played last year but lost 37-34. In the win column were Mary Montgomery over Pace FL 34-21, Vestavia Hills topping powerhouse Westside SC 49-7 and Dothan over Chiles FL 42-17.

   *  Great games across the state included: Thompson over Carver 37-6, Opelika 25-20 over Benjamin Russell, Saraland toppled Jackson in the rain 17-6, Clay-Chalkville showed they would be a top tier team in 6A with an impressive 42-15 victory over Hueytown.

   *  A few games were not close from the opening kickoff. McAdory beat Pleasant Grove 57-7 and St. Clair County throttled Jemison 61-21.

   *  A few surprising scores included: Leroy 52-34 over Thomasville, Cold Springs 65-7 Hanceville, Luverne 56-0 Elba, Oneonta 58-13 Locust Fork, Central Tuscaloosa 45-13 Tuscaloosa County and Homewood 51-7 John Carroll. Its not the wins for the teams but the actual margin of victory for each.

   *  Upsets? Yea, we had a few. Maplesville 35-6 over Fyffe was an mild upset in my opinion and according to the AHSFHS Power Ratings. Leroy over Thomasville, 1A Fayetteville knocking off 3A Childersburg 35-28, Ashford over Rehobeth 32-15 and Clements over West Limestone 21-14. All these teams were at least two touchdown underdogs.

   *  The first week always provides a bunch of upsets as teams often play across classifications so a few top ten teams saw their hopes of a perfect season fall by the wayside. No less than 20 ranked teams lost in week one. Half of the 2A and 4A ranked squads fell.

   *  And we even had a tie game for the first time since 2013 when Chambers Academy and Springwood fought to a 14-14 stalemate. Cottonwood and Randolph County GA tried to play through the weather but were forced to call the game at midnight due to lightning in the area. They tied 14-14. The last tie game involving an AHSAA school was in 2012 when Russell County also tied a Georgia school in Northside 14-14. There have been no tie games since 1984 among AHSAA schools that did not involve a team from another state. There have been eight involving interstate schools.

   *  Fyffe has been ranked by the ASWA for an amazing 176 consecutive polls dating back to the 2009 season. The Red Devils opened the 2025 season as the #3 team in 3A and lost to an excellent Maplesville team 35-6 in the AHSAA Kickoff Classic.

   *   Catholic Montgomery began the 2025 football season with a solid 32-6 victory over St. James to extend the state's longest winning streak to thirty games. Reeltown is well behind them them with a 15 game streak.

   *   Columbia holds onto the longest losing streak at 92 straight contests following a 53-6 loss to Priceville. 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 until next week.

   *  The #3 ranked Catholic Montgomery Knights have won 44 straight regular season games. Central Clay County is behind with a string of 27 consecutive regular season wins.

   *   Saraland, ranked #3 in 6A, entered 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 15 consecutive season openers following a 42-15 win over Hueytown on the road.

   *   Sylvania was shutout for the first time in 64 games following a 20-0 loss to North Jackson.

   *   Fyffe was in danger of seeing their consecutive games scoring streak come to an end Friday night. They are currently sitting on a string of 334 games without being shutout. T.R. Miller sits atop this list with a string of 354 games.

   *   Congratulation go to J.F. Shields for snapping a 32 game losing streak with a 24-12 victory over Wilcox Central. Also Curry put a stop to a 14 game losing streak. Congratulation to Coach Cordell and the Yellow Jackets. Lastly Ider broke a 17 game losing streak by knocking off Section 19-13.

   *   The Fort Payne Wildcats made history Friday night as they defeated Scottsboro 21-19 for the 600th win in school history. They have a record of 600-411-20 since first fielding a football team back in 1922.

   *   Addison also won the 600th game in school history with a surprising 41-20 victory over Winston County. The Bulldogs have amassed an overall record of 600-309-13 since 1928. Congratulations Bulldogs under first year head coach Mark Hastings.

   *   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  (698-352-49)
  692  -  Demopolis  (692-337-42)

Team approaching the 600 win club
   598  -  Prattville  (598-422-27)
   594  -  Cherokee County  (594-438-30)
   594  -  Foley  (594-366-27)
   592  -  Leroy  (592-407-26)

Team approaching the 500 win club
  499  -  Thompson  (499-391-14)
  496  -  Pike County  (496-396-18)
  491  -  Washington County  (491-399-22)
  491  -  Lamar County  (491-492-46)
  490  -  Notasulga  (490-439-17)


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)  (245-103)

Coaches approaching the 200 win club
  195  -  Mike Battles Jr. (Southern Academy)  (195-110)
  193  -  Jeff Kelly (Saraland)  (193-71)
  192  -  Keith Etheredge  (Auburn)  (192-61)
  191  -  Jason Allen  (Chambers Academy)  (191-86-1)

Coaches approaching the 150 win club
  149  -  Danny Raines (Berry Fayette)  (149-101)
  145  -  Brian Seymore (Trinity)  (145-72)
  143  -  Alton Hudson (Sparta Academy)  (143-137)

Coaches approaching the 100 win club
  97  - Jason Massey (Clarke County)  (97-53)
  96  - Bryan Moore (Opelika)  (96-24)
  93  - Darrell Higgins (Mars Hill)  (93-27)
  92  - George Bates (Shades Valley)  (92-60)
  92  - Ben Berguson (Homewood)  (92-52)
  91  - Josh Floyd (Hewitt-Trussville)  (91-38)
  91  - Matt Geohagan (Bibb County)  (91-31)
  91  - Chris Musso (Oak Grove)  (91-89)
  90  - Sam Adams (Oxford)  (90-45)
  90  - Richie Busby (Helena)  (90-43)