CJSR’s first look playoff standing breakdown heading into Week 5, with more details to come as we near Cutoff Weekend

We know, this is your favorite time of year, and it’s ours, too: Cutoff Weekend will be here before you know it. As we officially get into the second half of the 2026 regular season, every game means so much. Some teams will be fighting for a top seed, others will be trying to earn…

No. 3 Old Bridge has been through the wringer, but still passed nearly every test as No. 8 Sayreville visits Lombardi Field Friday night

The season hasn’t been perfect for the Old Bridge football team by any stretch of the imagination. But where it ultimately counts – in the win column – they’ve been as solid as they come. They say big players come up in big spots. And great teams sometime wins games they aren’t supposed to. Two…

Big Central Schedule for Week Five: Sayreville-Old Bridge, Phillipsburg-Ridge highlight the weekend slate

There are two Top Ten matchups in the Big Central this week, as well as a host of other intriguing games as we hit the back stretch of the regular season for high school football. The Bellamy & Son Paving Big Central Game of the Week is Friday night as No. 8 Sayreville visits No.…

Gameday with Marcus Borden: Week 5

We are now officially in the home stretch of the high school football regular season in New Jersey and the Big Central – with just four more weeks to play before the playoffs – and it’s time to talk about it all with Central Jersey Sports Radio analyst Marcus Borden! We open the show looking…

Defense with a “Furey”: Montgomery linebacker was all over the field in upset of Somerville, earns Week 4 Bellamy & Son Paving Player of the Week honors

When Montgomery knocked off a ranked Somerville football team early in the 2025 season, after an OT win at Hopewell Valley and a home loss to Summit, it indicated that the Cougars could be in for a special year. They wound up going 8-4 and playing in the North 2, Group 5 title game, which…

Multiplier update: Second loss for St. Joseph-Metuchen takes Falcons out of the equation, affecting several Big Central schools

The second of both NJSIAA non-public multiplier schools in the Big Central Conference has dropped out of that category, and this one also will affect a number of league schools. When No. 5 St. Joseph-Metuchen fell to No. 1 Phillipsburg, 42-31, at home this past Monday, it was the Falcons’ second loss to a non-multiplier…

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