The 2019 season is underway. Region play began this week for most teams so the playoff race is on. Here are a few tidbits and notes from this week's action.

   *  Something new this year are the AHSFHS Power Ratings. This week's projections are posted on the site now along with the Power Ratings for every school.

   *  Hoover has been ranked by the ASWA for an amazing 211 consecutive polls dating back to the 2000 season. The Bucs fell to Thompson 48-30. Only once before have the Bucs allowed more than 48 points in a game. That was last year against Hewitt-Trussville.

   *  UMS-Wright owns the state's longest winning streak at twenty-one games. The Bulldogs defeated Andalusia 21-7 on Friday.

   *   Barbour County extended their state leading fifty-two game losing streak in a 59-14 loss to G.W. Long.

   *   Brindlee Mountain has lost 39 consecutive region games after falling to Pisgah by a score of 51-8 this week.

   *  The Fyffe Red Devils have won 40 straight regular season games following a 49-0 thumping of Section.

   *   Demopolis had a streak of 32 consecutive region wins but they saw the streak come to an end against Bibb County when the fell by a score of 13-12. The Fyffe Red Devils now have the longest streak having won 27 straight region contests.

   *   The Volunteers of Monroe Academy lead all schools with a string of 41 consecutive home wins. Fyffe leads the AHSAA schools with a 31 game home winning streak.

   *   Hokes Bluff has won 12 consecutive road games. Chambers Academy leads the AISA schools with a streak of 22 straight road victories.

   *   Maplesville has scored twenty or more points in 65 consecutive games The Red Devils beat up on A.L. Johnson 68-0.

   *   Fyffe continues to extend their streak of consecutive games scoring. They are currently sitting on a string of 251 games without being shutout.

   *   Thirteen teams scored more than 60 points this week. Thirty years ago, in 1989, only nineteen teams scored more than 60 the entire season. In 1979 only eight teams scored more than sixty points in a game all year long.

   *   Alabama is 18-23 against out of state competition this season. They are 9-7 against Georgia, 3-5 against Florida, 4-6 versus Mississippi and 2-5 against Tennessee.

   *   Ben Blackmon picked up his 100th win as a head coach as the Spanish Fort Toros took the week off. How did he do this? Daphne was forced to forfeit their win over the Toros last week thereby giving Coach Blackmon the win. His overall record now stands at 100-42 in 13 seasons as a head football coach.

   *   Coach Mark Freeman, currently the head football coach at Thomson, has accumulated 200 victories in his 21 year career. The Warriors not only gave him the historic 200 victory but knocked off Hoover in the process..

Team approaching the 500 win club
  495  -  Hoover  (495-173-7)
  495  -  Haleyville  (495-397-23)
  493  -  McGill-Toolen  (493-422-29)
  493  -  Hueytown  (493-432-32)
  491  -  McAdory  (491-390-25)

Coaches approaching the 100 win club
  98  -  David McKinney (Winfield)  (98-46)
  98  -  Toby Greene (Florala)  (98-87)
  97  -  Don Jacobs (Scottsboro)  (97-50)
  95  -  Ronnie Cottrell (Mobile Christian)  (95-66)
  93  -  Reuben Nelson (Ramsay)  (93-61)
  93  -  Chris Hilliker (Northside)  (93-61)
  92  -  Brian Seymore (Demopolis)  (92-55)
  92  -  Roland Jones Jr. (Brantley)  (92-34)
  91  -  Gene Hill (Sardis)  (91-69)