St. Augustine is 9-0 and Mandarin is 8-1, which is the only game on a six-game card with two teams this good in it.

Nine and oh is this paper’s count. FloridaHSFootball reported nine finals for the Jackets and the Jackets won all nine.

Palatka 49-0. Nease 28-22. Menendez 34-8. Middleburg 48-6. Evans 24-20. Clay 37-13. Ridgeview 55-0. Orange Park 52-8. Fleming Island 42-7.

There is a tenth game. They opened at Ponte Vedra on Aug. 14. No source read this cycle carries a score for it. Both schools’ calendars have the game and all three feeds have the result blank.

The St. Johns Citizen reported Tuesday that Brian Braddock is the Florida Athletic Coaches Association’s District 6 Coach of the Year, on a vote of his peers, and that the Orange Park win on Oct. 16 was his hundredth at the school he played for. The Citizen also has Mandarin at 8-1. Its scores for those last two games match the scoreboard’s.

The card

Kickoff Game Venue
6:30 p.m. Nease at Sandalwood Dennis Bartley Field
7 p.m. Land O Lakes at Bartram Trail Bartram Trail
7 p.m. Westside at Beachside Barracuda Stadium
7 p.m. Creekside at Ponte Vedra The Shark Tank
7 p.m. Tocoi Creek at Menendez Menendez
7 p.m. St. Augustine at Mandarin The Corral

Two of the six are county against county.

Creekside goes to the Shark Tank. Tocoi Creek goes to Menendez. Two of the eight take a loss from inside the county.

None of the six is a district game on the schools’ own calendars.

Where the eight stand

Counting the 59 county finals FloridaHSFootball reported, which is this paper’s arithmetic and nobody’s official standing: St. Augustine 9-0, Nease 7-2, Bartram Trail 6-3, Creekside 6-3, Beachside 5-4, Menendez 5-4, Ponte Vedra 3-6, Tocoi Creek 3-6.

Four at or above .500. Four below.

The two at the Shark Tank are three wins apart.

Nease is the one that moves. Six-thirty at Dennis Bartley Field, half an hour before the rest of them.

The Tattler did not attend any of these games. Every kickoff and venue is from the school’s own athletic calendar. Every score is a figure another outlet reported and is attributed to it. Every record is this paper’s count of those scores.