{"id":459593,"date":"2026-10-08T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459593\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:18:08","slug":"everything-to-know-about-week-7-of-dallas-area-high-school-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459593\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything to know about Week 7 of Dallas-area high school football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find everything you need to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/article\/texas-high-school-football-week-7-picks-dallas-22465538.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Week 7<\/a> of the 2026 Texas high school football season.<\/p>\n<p>Find more HSFB coverage from The Dallas Morning News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With six weeks in the books and district play now in full swing across the state, it&#8217;s time to press pause and acknowledge some of the top performers of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>There are still 10 weeks left in the season, including up to six postseason games for the top teams in the state, so plenty can still change &#8211; and just about every coach in the state will give some sort of coachspeak answer when talking about hot starts, usually including some variant of &#8220;it&#8217;s not how you start, it&#8217;s how you finish.&#8221; Still, some of these starts simply cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>North Crowley and Waxahachie have been part of a season-long debate about who is truly the best team in Texas high school football.<\/p>\n<p>Waxahachie can claim that it is officially ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 6A by Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football. North Crowley can make the case that it belongs in the top spot because of dominant wins over 12-time state champion Aledo, eight-time state champion Southlake Carroll and three-time state champion Duncanville.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, they will decide the rankings argument on the field, as Waxahachie hosts state No. 3-ranked North Crowley at 7 p.m. in a matchup of 5-0 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Below you will find everything you need to know about Week 7 of the 2026 Texas high school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2291,125464],"class_list":["post-459593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-sports-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459593","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=459593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}