2013 Auqali Topakees football team: Difference between revisions

| off_coach = [[Warren Tabalo]]

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The '''2013 Auqali Topakees football team''' represented the [[University of Auqali]] in the sport of [[w:American football|gridiron football]] during the [[OIAA Division I-A|2013 OIAA Division I-A football season]]. They were coached by [[Garrett Kendrick]] in his 11th season of coaching, and played their home games in [[Allen Stadium]] in [[Sedter, Auqali|Sedter]], [[Auqali]]. They were members of the [[South Tierrador Conference|STC’s]] Eastern Division, of which was their 81st year as charter members of the conference. The Topakees were led by [[Hawthorne-Epps Trophy]] winner [[Nolan Qaldetti]], and finished the season with a perfect 14–0 record, breaking the school record for wins, previously set at 13 by the [[2002 Auqali Topakees football team|2002 team]]. This record would eventually be broken by the [[2021 Auqali Topakees football team|2021 team]] at 15 wins. The Topakees captured their 11th STC title, a 45–0 shutout of the 5th-ranked [[2013 Alčona Tigers football team|Alčona Tigers]] in the [[2013 STC Championship Game]]. Following the STC Championship, the Topakees were invited to play [[St. John’s Conference]] champion [[Vertannia]] in the [[2014 Tangerine Bowl]], where they won in dominant fashion, 42–14.

Along with winning the Hawthorne-Epps Trophy, Nolan Qaldetti won the Wezeles Award, the Krauža-Gomez Award, and was honored as the AP/TP Player of the Year. Wide receivers [[Talon Ward]] and [[Iaqób Kolaxa]] won both the Čeqen Award and the Osqalla Award, respectively. An OIAA-record sixteen players were named All-Orixtals, with five earning consensus honors. For their accomplishments, Spiro Lagóza was a finalist for both the Qorbins Award and the Sawall Trophy, and Coach Kendrick was named the OCFCA Coach of the Year and was a semifinalist for the Alstin Post Coach of the Year.

Twenty-seven Topakees from the national title team have gone on to play professional football with twenty-one players going on to play in the [[Orixtal Football League|OFL]], including league-record seven first round picks, four players in the CFL, and two players in the UFL. Nine players have been named consensus All-Orixtals. Since the National Championship, numerous players have gone on to win a Pro football championship, including Nolan Qaldetti, Talon Ward, Iaqób Kolaxa, Alex Adona, Qam Čusan, and Spiro Lagóza. On the season, the Topakees outscored their opponents by a combined total of 634 to 173. Owing to their dominant performance against a historically difficult schedule, several pundits have called the team one of the greatest in college football history.