The second half of the high school football regular season gets crammed into the month of October, with five Fridays on the calendar for teams to either jockey for playoff position or play out the string on an ultimately disappointing campaign.
Mountain Brook will look to ensure that the final stretch of regular season games sets up a playoff push. The Spartans have qualified for the playoffs nine straight years and can make it a solid decade with another successful season in Class 6A, Region 6 games.
Oct. 3 vs. Clay-Chalkville: This could be the game that determines the Region 6 champion, based on the last few years. Mountain Brook has lost to the Cougars by single digits each of the last three times the teams have met, and both programs are attempting to knock Oxford from its throne o