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How Blum, Cooper Thornhill pulled off one of the biggest upsets over McLean
The Bobcat head coach was a defensive coordinator at Abbott during the last big-time upset in the six-man ranks
Blum football coach Cooper Thornhill knows a little something about pulling historic upsets. Four years ago, Thornhill was the defensive coordinator at Abbott when the Panthers pulled off one of the biggest six-man upsets in recent title game memory over Crowell.
But on Wednesday, Thornhill’s Blum team outdid themselves. The group came into its 1A Division I matchup against McLean as 17-point underdogs. SixManFootball.com projected McLean to mercy-rule the Panthers. Instead, in its 50th year of football, Blum held on to win its first state title.
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