High school football ‘26: Mandarin tops St. Augustine in wild OT finish; playoff picture comes into focus

Talk about a wild finish to the high school football regular season. Mandarin used a touchdown and a two-point run in overtime by Shaunqueze Foster to stun St. Augustine in a 32-31 thriller that ended with a deluge of controversy in the Varsity 4 Game of the Week. The Mustangs (9-1) ended St. Augustine’s perfect season for the second consecutive year, although this one left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Yellow Jackets in one of the most wild finishes imaginable. St. Augustine went ahead in the final seconds of regulation on a short field goal by Jake Fischer that put them in front 27-24 with less than 15 seconds to play. Mandarin was flagged for offsides on the play which took the field goal off the board. St. Augustine instead, set up for a new set of downs and an attempt to run one play, drain the clock further, call a timeout and then attempt a game-winning field goal. The confusion in the moment is that a line judge told St. Augustine that it had two timeouts when it began it