High school football: The bar has been raised for Jordan and Alta at XFINITY Challenge

Published: Monday, Sept. 24 2012 7:07 p.m. MDT

Summary

Last year's inaugural XFINITY High School Football Challenge at Rio Tinto Stadium was a bit of a dud. Despite great fanfare leading up to the doubleheader, neither out-of-state team scored a point as Jordan trounced Notre Dame, N.J., 39-0, and Alta dismantled Taft, Calif., 56-0.

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UtahBruin

Saratoga Springs, UT

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the likes of these football teams visiting. You are seriously in for a treat. Don Bosco Prep, out of N.J. has been an across the country High School Power for the last several years. St John Bosco out of More..

12:31 p.m. Sept. 25, 2012
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crowntown1

Corona, CA

St. John Bosco is a good program in Southern California. They are certainly not a top 10 team
In SoCal every year. I don't know what "test" utah's best means when you don't
Play the. Best in California.

9:57 p.m. Sept. 25, 2012
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H-TownTiger

Hurricane, 00

@Corona although you are right about John Bosco not being the top ranked team in cali, they are ranked 5th in the state and 27th in the Nation (according to max preps) and 30th in the nation in multiple other ranking sites. Utah is trying to get More..

8:47 a.m. Sept. 26, 2012
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