FAYETTE — Last season, Jefferson County upset the No. 1 team in Region 7-3A at their opponent’s homecoming.

This year, No. 2 Franklin County wants revenge, and they want it on the Tigers’ home turf.

The Tigers won 24-21 last season, scoring 18 unanswered points and winning the game with less than four minutes left.

This year, Franklin County coach Trent Hammond will try to run hard and fast against Jefferson County.

“We have to play physical, hardnosed football,” he said. “If we don’t, we can’t stop them because they’re going to be a lot bigger than we are. They’re a lot faster, too.”

But the Tigers will be ready for the ground game.

Coach James Herrington said the Tigers will focus on Bulldog quarterback Jamie Collins, who had 19 carries for 141 yards this past weekend in a loss to Tylertown.

“They rally around him. He gets them up to play,” Herrington said of Collins, who also plays defensive back. “When he’s making plays you can see the difference in the ball club, both on offense and defense. We want to try to contain him and try to make other players contain us.”

On the other side of the field is the other Collins quarterback, Jeffery, who threw seven passes for 126 yards and carried 21 times for 129 yards for the Tigers in a loss to South Pike.

Herrington said Jefferson County is not still reeling from its 13-12 loss and is ready to move on to the Bulldogs.

But their plan of action this week will be the same.

“Control their running game, play solid defense, limit turnovers, and we can have success,” Herrington said. “Try to take a way what they want to do. They want to run the football, so we have to force them to do something they’re not comfortable doing, which is pass the football.”

Jamie Collins completed two of 10 passes for 16 yards with one interception in a 13-7 loss to Tylertown.

While Hammond said the Bulldogs will focus mainly on the ground game, for which they have many different formations, he will look for a bit of offense in the air.

“We know Jamie’s going to carry it a lot,” he said. “(The passing) is something you can’t fix in a week. We just have to be able to throw and catch a little bit better than what we do.”