Everything old is new again at Woodside High.
Entering the Central Coast Section playoffs at 10-0, the Wildcats are undefeated at this stage for the first time since the 2004 season. That was the year former New England Patriots star Julian Edelman quarterbacked them to a perfect regular-season record and three straight playoff wins to earn a championship in the CCS’s Medium Division.
This season, Woodside is the No. 1 seed in CCS Division III, the rough equivalent to the bygone Medium Division.
With this year’s Woodside team having similar success – at least so far – those days are coming back to the forefront. For those who were involved with the last great Wildcats squad, this season has been an uplifting throwback to the program’s last glory year.
“I’ve been watching,” said Steve Nicolopoulos, Woodside’s coach from 1992-96 and 2004-12. “I haven’t been back to Woodside since I retired in 2020, but I look in the paper and see what they’re doing. They seem to be putting things together.”
Woodside coach Justin Andrews addresses his players after their 41-0 win at Mountain View on Sept. 5, 2025. (Christian Babcock/Bay Area News Group)Nicolopoulos hired current Woodside coach Justin Andrews as the Cats’ junior varsity coach and has been impressed with the way he has turned the program around.
When Andrews took over the varsity team in 2014, the Wildcats had not finished with a winning record since 2008. Thus began a long climb that started in the Peninsula Athletic League’s Ocean Division and detoured into the Lake, the lowest level, after an 0-10 season in 2017.
Woodside got out of the Lake with an 8-3 record in 2022. After two winning seasons in the El Camino Division, the Cats were promoted back into the Ocean this year, where they have destroyed all comers, including a 41-0 win over De Anza Division foe Mountain View in nonleague play.
The Wildcats’ closest game was a 28-14 win over Half Moon Bay, and they won every other contest by at least 21 points. Their average margin of victory is 33.
Woodside High School's Alex Valencia (20) runs with the ball against Half Moon Bay in the third quarter at Woodside High School in Woodside, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)“It’s the old ‘Field of Dreams’ thing: build it and they will come,” Nicolopoulos said. “If you can go ahead and put together some winning seasons, people are going to want to be part of that institution. Not just because of sports, but they’re going to want to be part of it. That’s how you get a lot of people. I know that when we won in 2004, we started to get an influx of kids wanting to come to school there and transferring.”
Andrews got Woodside to this point by instituting a single-wing offense, an invention of Pop Warner – yes, that Pop Warner – when he was coaching Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the early 1900s.
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The Cats’ misdirection-heavy attack has been unstoppable this year, averaging 41.8 points per game. The defense has been elite too, allowing 8.8 points per contest with four shutouts.
Woodside’s Carlos Latu (55) reacts after he and teammates' defense stop Hillsdale's offense behind the line of scrimmage during a Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division football game at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)The Wildcats have already accomplished a lot this year. But this season won’t have the same impact as 2004 did if Woodside doesn’t finish the year with a section title.
The reverberations from that perfect campaign are still felt today. And while there may be no future Super Bowl champion among this group, a section crown would definitively stamp this team as the one that brought Woodside football back for a new generation.
“People want to be around a winner,” Nicolopoulos said. “People don’t want to be around an also-ran and all that other stuff. So when you win, people gather around and they’re pretty supportive. So it’s nice to see that community happy and supportive of what Justin’s doing.”
Woodside High School's Alex Valencia (20) runs with the ball against Half Moon Bay in the third quarter at Woodside High School in Woodside, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)Subscribe to our Bay Area Preps HQ newsletter for all our Bay Area high school sports coverage, including game analysis, scores, and everything you want to know about your Bay Area high school teams.
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