It's been more than three decades since the Collinsville and Maud football teams have met on the gridiron.

Pirates head coach Garrett Patterson was a freshman on the 1994 team that defeated the Cardinals, 39-0, in the area round of the Class 2A state playoffs.

Patterson, now the head coach of Collinsville (10-0), led his team into battle against Maud (4-6) Thursday night in Paris in a Class 2A-Division II bi-district playoff contest.