Upland ‘D’ may be best unit of any kind in Central

Defense in any sport is more difficult to grade than offense for the simple fact that statistics usually don’t to justice to defense like they do offense. This is no different with the Upland High School football team’s defensive unit but what’s amazing about Upland’s defense is that even its numbers are awesome.

However, if you saw the Highlanders play last week in a 13-7 win over a Chino Hills team that came in averaging 28 points per game, you know even their numbers don’t do justice to their dominance. From start to finish this season (well, near-finish. Upland has one game remaining, that being the CIF-SS Central Division championship game against Los Osos on Friday) what Upland’s defense has done may be the most impressive of any single unit – offense, defense, special teams – in the Central Division.

Here are some of those stats:

  • The Highlanders are allowing 11 points per game
  • Only once this season have they given up more than 20 points
  • During a four-game stretch, they allowed a total of 13 points
  • In three playoff games, they have surrendered a total of 30 points
  • Midway through the fourth quarter on Friday, they had allowed Chino Hills 74 total yards, zero points and forced seven three-and-outs

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