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| 10/04/24 - Away | 51-26 W |
| 11/03/23 - Home | 21-28 L |
| 11/04/22 - Away | 24-7 W |
| 11/05/21 - Home | 45-28 W |
| 10/02/20 - Away | 14-28 L |
| + 5 more games |
Gulf Coast and Barron Collier are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2015, but not for long. The Sharks will welcome the Cougars at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Gulf Coast has three straight wins, Barron Collier has six straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Gulf Coast is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed past Palmetto Ridge to the tune of 63-0 on Friday. Given the Sharks' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 223rd, while the Bears are ranked 559th) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Gio Marenco and Javien Altine. Marenco rushed for 176 yards and three TDs on only six carries while Altine rushed for 191 yards and a pair of touchdowns on only five carries. Altine's longest rush was for an incredible 92 yards. Isaac Garcia was another key player, gaining 37 total yards and two touchdowns.
Gulf Coast was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 508 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 201 rushing yards every time they've taken the field this season.
Meanwhile, Barron Collier played a tough matchup on Friday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They lost 42-18 to Lely.
Barron Collier's loss dropped their record down to 0-5. As for Gulf Coast, their victory bumped their record up to 4-2.
Everything went Gulf Coast's way against Barron Collier in their previous matchup back in October of 2024, as Gulf Coast made off with a 51-26 win. Do the Sharks have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Cougars turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
