There is one week left in the regular season, but there are a couple of first-round playoff matchups that are already set. Here is a preview.
Lewisville at Allen
7 p.m. Thursday Nov. 13 at Allen’s Eagle Stadium
This will be the fourth straight season that five-time state champion Allen has played Lewisville in the first round, and the winner each time went on to advance to the regional final. Lewisville won 43-18 in 2022 and Allen won 18-17 in 2023 and 17-3 last year.
Allen takes a 9-0 record into Thursday’s game against Plano East and has outscored the opposition 484-78. Allen is trying for its 11th undefeated regular season in the last 15 years.
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Cedar Hill at Killeen Harker Heights
7 p.m. Friday, November 14 at Buckley Stadium in Killeen
Cedar Hill is back in the playoffs after missing last year, when it was 3-7. This is Cedar Hill’s 18th playoff appearance in 21 years, and it is looking for a repeat of 2023.
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That year, Cedar Hill finished fourth in District 11-6A but won three playoff games and reached a regional final before losing to rival DeSoto. This year, Cedar Hill has already clinched a playoff spot and the No. 2 seed from 11-6A in the Division II playoff bracket, but it will finish fourth in 11-6A unless it can upset three-time state champion Duncanville on Thursday.
Harker Heights won the District 12-6A title and has won five in a row after nondistrict losses to Dripping Springs and Midlothian. Harker Heights has been eliminated from the playoffs by a team currently in District 11-6A each of the last five years, losing first-round games to Duncanville in 2020, to DeSoto in 2021 and 2023 and to Lancaster last year and falling in a regional final to DeSoto in 2022.
Lovejoy at Argyle
7 p.m. Friday Nov. 14 at Argyle’s Eagle Stadium
Argyle won its fourth consecutive district title since moving up to Class 5A starting with the 2022 season. The District 3-5A Division II champion is headed to the playoffs for the 22nd straight season and has won at least eight games for the 17th year in a row.
Argyle is used to long playoff runs, winning a state title in 2020 and reaching the state semifinals in 2022 and 2024. Argyle beat Lovejoy 42-17 in a regional final last year.
Todd Dodge, a seven-time state champion, has now made the playoffs in each of his first two years at Lovejoy and has reached the playoffs in each of his last 10 seasons as a head coach. Since 2000, the only two years he missed the playoffs were in 2012 and 2013 at Marble Falls, and he won all seven of his state titles from 2002 to 2021 before retiring for two years.
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