MOUNTAIN VIEW — First play: 50 yards in the air. Touchdown.

Sixth play: 60 yards in the air. Touchdown.

Fourth quarter: 50 yards in the air. Go-ahead touchdown.

When Archbishop Riordan football coach Adhir Ravipati called quarterback Michael Mitchell Jr. “special” after the Crusaders’ 47-28 victory over host St. Francis in a West Catholic Athletic League opener on Friday night, this is what he meant:

“I think he’s the best quarterback in the country,” Ravipati said after Mitchell engineered a comeback that gave Riordan its first victory at Brother Fisher Field since 1971.

Trailing by deficits of 28-20 in the third quarter and 28-26 in the fourth, Riordan closed out the game with 27 points over the final 17 minutes to improve to 4-0 as the No. 2-ranked team in the Bay Area News Group’s

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