{"id":421937,"date":"2026-08-31T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421937\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:22:08","slug":"how-did-dallas-area-teams-fare-vs-out-of-state-competition-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421937\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Dallas area teams fare vs. out-of-state competition in Week 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest moments from Week 1 of the Texas high school football season actually took place in Fort Lauderdale, where\u00a0DeSoto met Florida powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas in a battle of nationally-ranked teams.<\/p>\n<p>St. Thomas Aquinas, ranked No. 2 by MaxPreps and boasting several star recruits, has the chance to be the nation\u2019s top-ranked team after No. 1 Bishop Gorman (Nev.) lost 33-28 to Florida\u2019s Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-time state champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/article\/southlake-carroll-brody-knowles-jenks-comeback-win-22405534.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southlake Carroll edged Jenks<\/a>, an 18-time Oklahoma state champion, 34-33 after erasing a 27-point deficit.\u00a0Argyle fell to California\u2019s Oak Ridge 27-26 to open its season, but Melissa routed Arkansas\u2019 Pulaski Academy 63-21. Kimball shut out Oklahoma\u2019s Douglass 64-0.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more interstate matchups before Dallas-area teams begin district play.<\/p>\n<p>DeSoto also opened last season against a non-Texas team: Georgia\u2019s Creekside. After losing 70-0 to DeSoto in 2024, Creekside routed the Texas power 70-28 in 2025. Many Texas high school football fans wrote DeSoto off for the season after that loss, but the program went on to win its third state title in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest moments from Week 1 of the Texas high school football season actually took place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,300,126921,90417,105075,102406,108058],"class_list":["post-421937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-football","tag-tp-desoto-school","tag-tp-high-schools","tag-tp-argyle-school","tag-tp-melissa-school","tag-tp-southlake-carroll-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421937","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=421937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}