Friday Night Lights-Reading Skills

The book I am currently reading is Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. I just started reading the book and it seems to be almost exactly the same as the movie so far (which I really enjoyed). I predict through out the rest of the book it will be very similar to the movie with a few differences here or there. One thing I am looking forward to is how the characters are portrayed and how they develop over the course of the story. I think the way the author describes the football games will be similar to that of The Blind Side by Michael Lewis which i read over the summer. So far it seems like a great book!