Mesa is 0-9 against Mountain View since October of 2014 but things could change on Friday. After each having a week off, the two teams will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Mesa's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed two weeks ago. They blew past Tolleson 44-0 on the road. Given the Jackrabbits' advantage in MaxPreps' Arizona football rankings (they are ranked 32nd, while the Wolverines are ranked 136th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Mountain View two weeks ago. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Westwood out of the water with a 50-6 final score. The Toros pushed the score to 43-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Warriors had no chance of recovering from.
It was another big night for Brady Goodman, who threw for 150 yards and five touchdowns, and also rushed for 64 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Talan Arnett also helped with two touchdowns in total.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Mountain View was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 202 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 177 rushing yards in three consecutive matchups.
Mesa is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a massive bump to their 3-3 record this season. As for Mountain View, their win bumped their record up to 5-1.
Mesa might still be hurting after the 35-15 loss they got from Mountain View in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Thankfully for Mesa, Jack Germaine (who threw for 348 yards and five touchdowns while completing 84.4% of his passes) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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