For the first time since 2005, the Southside Panthers have a winning record as a football program. The Panthers hadn’t been on the good side of the win/loss column since Oct. 21, 2005, following a 20-7 win over Bibb County.

Southside finished that season 6-5, losing in the first round of the playoffs. The school hasn’t played in a playoff game since, but following Friday’s win over Selma, Southside is thinking bigger picture.

While the rest of the city may still be talking about Friday’s Southside win — the Panthers first over Selma since 2004 — Southside’s players have already moved on.

“We’ve got bigger games in sight,” said Southside senior Ke’Andrae Rutledge. “After 24 hours, it’s over with. Time to move on. We are trying to get to the playoffs.”

Southside head coach Daniel Flowers said his team understands the 48 hour rule after games, which gave them two days to think about Friday’s game. He said he was already looking ahead to Prattville Christian Saturday morning.

“I told my guys before the game started that it was a one game season. Once you play Selma High, [that part of the] season is over with,” Flowers said.

After watching the tape from the Selma High game, Flowers knew he had plenty to critique his team on.

Southside committed seven turnovers and made numerous other mistakes by way of penalties or missed assignments.

“It wasn’t pretty. I’m an offensive guy and we only score 24 points. To me, that’s horrible,” Flowers said. “I felt like we could’ve scored 30 or 40. The boys know we left a lot of points on the board. I don’t think I did a good job of managing the game as far as the play calling.”

Rutledge said the team took a lot of confidence from Friday’s win, especially on defense. Selma moved the ball inside the Southside 22-yard line three teams, but only scored on two of those drives.

“Now our defense is going to be extremely confident knowing they can stop anybody, no matter where they are at on the field,” Rutledge said. “We’ve done it multiple times already on the biggest stage of the regular season.”

Flowers said Prattville Christian runs a spread offense similar to Selma’s. Prattville (1-1) lost to Catholic Montgomery Friday.