{"id":417218,"date":"2026-08-26T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:52:15","slug":"ranking-the-top-100-dallas-area-high-school-football-teams-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417218\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the top 100 Dallas-area high school football teams for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 20 high school football teams in Texas can claim a state championship each year, including 12 public schools, four 11-man TAPPS teams and a pair of SPC programs.<\/p>\n

It can be a lot, and fans are often left wanting one last game between Division I and II champions to see who can lay claim as a classification’s best.<\/p>\n

While that isn’t likely to happen, there’s plenty of debate about what would happen when teams from different classes face off.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News’<\/a> coverage area has about 150 schools, which includes most 6A and 5A programs within about 40 miles of downtown Dallas and more than two dozen private and smaller-classification teams.<\/p>\n

For the third straight year, The News’ high school sports staff has compiled Power Rankings of what we deem are the top 100 teams ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

It isn’t necessarily a list of which team is better, since we know many programs might miss the playoffs in one class but make a run at a title in another, but we hope it provides a snapshot of a team’s rating. There isn’t much daylight between many of the teams, especially the deeper the list goes.<\/p>\n

Factors that went into the ratings include classification, last year’s record, historic success and 2025 preseason ranking.<\/p>\n

We’ll revisit the list midway through the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 20 high school football teams in Texas can claim a state championship each year, including 12 public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-417218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417218","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=417218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}