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The Alabama Football Coaches Association is proud to announce three coaches who have been selected to receive our Lifetime Achievement Award. These men will be honored for their years of service at the ALFCA Coach of the Year Banquet next January in Montgomery. The winners were nominated by a member of the Alabama Football Coaches Association, selected by a committee and verified by a vote of the ALFCA Board of Directors on July 23rd. We congratulate the winners and their

Thompson is ranked number 16 in the nation according to the preseason High School Football America poll. Nine teams from the state are ranked in the poll's top 300 teams. In the top 300 list, Florida led with 53 schools and Texas was next with 43 teams in the rankings. Georgia and California tied for third place with 29 ranked schools. Ohio was fifth with 21 schools and Louisiana came in number six with 15 ranked teams. North Carolina and Tennessee had 9 and 11 ranked teams

This is Part 4 in a series of articles on the first season of AHSAA Football with the private and public schools separated in region and playoff competition. We have looked at the enrollment and classifications for the private schools, the travel issues, and the fair competition questions. What other concerns do schools and coaches have as the AHSAA goes forward with the plan? One of the issues that concerned the schools playing in “AA” was the fact that only eight teams m

This is Part 3 of an examination of the AHSAA new private school classifications that will operate separately from public schools when the 2026 playoffs roll around. Now let’s look at Class AA, the private schools with the highest enrollment figures for the 2026-27 classification period. Here are a few facts about this classification. The AHSAA decided to take the 16 schools with the highest enrollment figures that play football to create this “AA” class. There are many sch

Can the schools at the bottom of Private School – A and Private School – AA, be competitive with the schools at the top? How strong will the top schools be and how weak will the bottom schools be in each classification? How competitive will the regions be for playoff spots? Enrollment numbers have always been the primary factor to determine classifications of schools by the AHSAA. For many years private schools, have been affected by two other issues- the 1.35 multiplying f