2025 Outlook

Coach: Jeff Perzee (1st season)

Career Record: 0-0

Conference: Vermilion Valley

Last Playoff: Class 1A First Round, 2024

Best Playoff: Class 2A Semifinalists, 2012

2024 record: 5-5 (5-4)

The Clifton Central football team is in new hands this season, but they’re not wholly unfamiliar hands. Jeff Perzee, a 1994 Central grad and former assistant coach with the Comets, took over the head coaching reins from Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Famer Brian Spooner, who retired following the 2024 season after 27 years in the role.

But while the Comets may have a new head coach manning the sidelines for the first time in nearly three decades, there is plenty of carryover on the roster. Nearly all of Central’s top contributors from last season’s 5-

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