Cleat Cute meets Friday Night Lights, I'm sat. Ready to Score is fun, hot, and full of high school football charm.  Jade has spent her whole career trying to become head coach of the local high school football team; she's got a lot of slack from some parents for being a Black woman coach in an industry that is dominated by cis white men. Still, she fights and fights and fights until the current head coach announces that he's retiring and will name his replacement at the end of the season. She's really the only assistant coach in the running until Franny, the art teacher she's destests, joins the running. 

The book heavily focuses on this "competition" between Jade and Franny. Their rivalry is mostly one sided because we know almost immediatley that Franny is attracted to Jade and not even apart of the team like Jade is. Jade makes some risky calls and goes through a lot of growth in the second half of the book. As a character driven reader I ended up liking this more than the romance. 

Jade and Franny's romance takes a quick turn from one sided rivalry to essentially living together, but I still enjoyed it. There's this super obvious tension between them that Jade is scared of leaning into because it might ruin her chance to become the head football coach. Franny is really down bad from the start, but Jade takes some time. I, personally, would have liked a bit more time with them exploring their feelings, but I was plenty happy with what was there.