{"id":413193,"date":"2026-08-21T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413193\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:30:10","slug":"texas-high-school-football-2026-central-texas-preseason-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413193\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas high school football 2026: Central Texas preseason rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">High school<\/a> football season is back in central Texas this week!<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Here are your FOX 7 Friday Football preseason rankings for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>   2026 preseason rankings Class 6A  Westlake (2025: 7-4, lost in 1st rd of playoffs)Lake Travis (2025: 14-1, 6ADI State Semi-Finalist)Dripping Springs (2025: 12-2, 6ADII Regional Finalist)Vandegrift (2025: 12-3, 6ADII State Semi-Finalist)Round Rock (2025: 5-6, lost in 1st rd of playoffs) Class 5A Weiss (2025: 10-3, 5A DI Region Semi-Finalist) \u00a0Bastrop (2025: 11-2, 10-2, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs)Liberty Hill (2025: 9-3, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs)Connally (2025: 7-5, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs)Anderson (2025: 10-2, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs) Class 4A LBJ (2025: 9-3, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs)Wimberley (2025: 8-5, 4ADII Region Semi-Finalist)Lampasas (2025: 9-3, lost in 2nd rd of playoffs)Lago Vista (2025: 6-4, did not make post-season)Taylor (2025: 5-6, lost in 1st rd of playoffs) Class 3A Llano (2025: 13-2, 3ADI State Semi-Finalist) \u00a0Lexington (2025: 10-2, 3ADII Region Semi-Finalist)Blanco (2025: 10-3, 3A DII Region Semi-Finalist)Thrall (2025:2-8, did not make post-season)Rockdale (2025: 4-6, did not make post-season) Class 2A\/1A\/Others Mason (2025: 10-4, 2ADI Region Finalist)Granger (2025: 12-1, 2ADII Region Semi-Finalist)Thorndale (2025: 8-4, lost in 2nd rd of post-season)Johnson City (2025: 5-6, lost in 1st rd of post-season)Bartlett (2025: 4-6, did not make post-season) <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the FOX 7 Austin sports team.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/high-school\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; High school football season is back in central Texas this week! Here are your FOX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1725,154,216,393],"class_list":["post-413193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-high-school","tag-sports","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}