Five things to know about Jacksonville football 2020

Five things to know about Jacksonville football heading into the 2020 season:

—Clint Smith enters his 19th year as a head coach, his ninth at Jacksonville. He’s 124-74 overall, 67-27 at Jacksonville. His teams and Trinity Christian, Saks and Jacksonville have made the playoffs 12 out of 19 years, seven out of eight at Jacksonville, and have won at least one playoff game in nine of those playoff appearances. In 2019, Jacksonville advanced past the second round of the playoffs for the first time in school history, reaching the Class 4A title game before falling to nine-time champion UMS Wright. His last two Jacksonville teams went a combined 23-4 and won back-to-back region titles, another of many Jacksonville firsts during those two seasons.