Top 100: No. 16 Cardinal Gibbons wins Florida 4A championship

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Posted By: Jeff Fisher December 17, 2020

For the second time in three years, Cardinal Gibbons is a Florida high school football state champ. Thursday, the Chiefs beat The Bolles School 35-21 in the Class 4A state championship game at Doak Campbell Stadium on the campus of Florida State in Tallahassee.

Bolles got out to a lead on the first drive of the game.

One drive is all Bolles needed to find the end zone pic.twitter.com/YJitKV6uZs
— FloridaHSFootball.com (@FlaHSFootball) December 17, 2020

After that it was all Cardinal Gibbons behind 35 unanswered points.

Future Clemson Tiger WR Troy Stellato gets #ALLIN the end zone to put Gibbons up on Bolles

Notice he sticks the ball in before his body gets in. Smart player pic.twitter.com/TTT5rtGuls
— FloridaHSFootball.com (@FlaHSFootball) December 17, 2020

Cardinal Gibbons quarterback Brody Palhegyi was outstanding, completing 29-of-33 passes for 358 yards with four touchdowns.

FHSAA 4A State Champions ??@GibbonsFootball @CGHSFL @Redskins32 @5manfree pic.twitter.com/8ExyKxqt91
— Gibbons Athletics (@CGHSChiefs) December 17, 2020

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.