Home, Sweet Home: A Look at Central's Home Dominance Over the Last 5 Years

SAN ANGELO, TX— At his weekly press conference on Monday, Central head coach Brent Davis emphasized one thing ahead of their clash with Euless Trinity: the Bobcats play well at home.

“We’ve got [Trinity] at home. We feel like that’s an advantage,” Davis said. “Anytime we can play at home, we’re excited...Hopefully we’ll have a big home crowd that’ll help us. If we get all that and play well, we’ve got a shot.”

He’s right, they do play well at home. Central has won 25 straight regular season home games and are 30-1 in all games played at the cavernous confines of San Angelo Stadium over the last five years.

Central’s regular season home streak dates back to the end of the 2012 season, when Central fell to Abilene Cooper 21-17 in the next to last game of the regular season.

“We’re fired up to have it at home,” said senior center Gunner Couch. “We always feel like at home we have the advantage. Euless Trinity is Euless Trinity. I mean, they’re big, they’re fast, they get after it and they’re good at what they do.”

To say Central has been good at home over the last 31 games would be selling the program short. Dominance is a better term to describe what Central has done the last five years.

In their last 31 games at home, the Bobcats have outscored their opponents by an average of 26.8 points per game. Central has scored an average of 47.6 points per game over that time.

The only loss in that span was against Allen in front of roughly 23,000 fans at the 2016 regional semifinal.

Couch added that the Trinity game “will be a great atmosphere, hopefully like the Allen one.”

That 34-21 loss in 2016 refueled the Bobcats’ will to succeed at home.

“That experience was unreal,” Couch said of his experience at the game as a sophomore. “That Allen team was the number one team in the state, came in and played in front of like 23,000 people. I feel that’s a lot what this game is going to be like. There’s a lot of anticipation for this game Friday night. People have been talking about it since they came out with the new district.”

While the attendance figure at the Allen game was an anomaly — it was Thanksgiving week, most area teams were not playing that day and Allen was the no. 1 team in the state — big crowds are not out of the norm for San Angelo Stadium.

At Central home games, crowds run anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 easily. Friday will likely be on the high end of that spectrum

Central (4-1) squares off with Trinity (4-0) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.