AURORA – Move over Scott Yates, you have company near the top. And it’s a familiar face to us all.

On a spicy Thursday night, Dave Logan kicked off the 2025 high school football season with maybe the hottest storyline of the year.

With Cherry Creek’s 45-10 win over Regis Jesuit, Logan tied legendary Kent Denver coach Scott Yates with career win No. 342. For at least a week, Logan gets to stay even with a friend of his. One more win and Logan only stares up at one man. For now, and at least for a year years, West Grand’s Chris Brown will be the winningest coach in Colorado high school football, but don’t count Logan running down Brown the way Jayden Fox ran down a 94-yard touchdown in the first half of Creek’s season-opening win.

“I didn’t realize that’s what this was and I didn’t think about it one time,” Logan said. “But here we are.”

For those keeping track at home, before Thursday’s game Logan had 341 wins in 32 seasons. That amounts to an average of 10.7 wins per season. Teams in 5A play 10 regular season games.

Logan is in a class of his own as he has won 11 state championships, all of them at the 5A level. Total wins is the only major coaching record that eludes Logan to this point, but in the eyes of many, he is the greatest coach to ever step on the sidelines for Colorado high school football.

“I would be among those people that say he’s already there,” Mile High Sports Magazine editor-in-chief Doug Ottewill said on the Colorado Preps Show’s fall sports preview. “The most impressive part of Logan’s accomplishment, and that’s with all due respect to Scott Yates, is that Logan has done it at the highest classification his entire career.”

That career started when he grabbed win No. 1 at Arvada West in 1993. He got the Wildcats to the 1996 state title game where they lost to Cherry Creek 48-33. He moved over to Chatfield in 2000 and won his first state title as a coach in 2001. The Chargers beat Fairview 9-3. Logan then went to Mullen and won state titles in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

He joined the staff at Cherry Creek in 2012 and won his first state title with the Bruins in 2014 when they beat Valor Christian to end a run of two straight 5A titles and five straight overall titles for the Eagles.

Logan then got on a roll at Creek, winning five titles in six years from 2019-24.

Along the way, Logan has racked up win after win and creating memories for both himself and for the kids that have come through his programs. But they’re all memories that he doesn’t want to reflect on until his coaching career comes to an end.

“When it’s all said and done and I’m done doing this, I’ll probably sit back and reflect think about a few of these things,” Logan said. “Honestly, I don’t feel like I’m anywhere close to that right now.”

Logan has a chance to move into sole possession of No. 2 next week when Cherry Creek heads to Florida to take on Cardinal Mooney. Every win from this point forward only adds to Logan’s legacy, but the Bruins are dialed into the ultimate goal of going 1-0 each week from now until Dec. 6.

“As a team, we don’t think about that,” Fox said. “We just take it one game at a time. We win and we lose as a team.”

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