Orange Lutheran took home the No. 1 spot in our look at the top 10 toughest schedules to start the year and faces its fifth opponent that has appeared in the MaxPreps Top 25. The Lancers, looking for their first win over Mater Dei since 2011, are 1-3 in those matchups against ranked teams.<\/p>\n
In Florida,\u00a0No. 6\u00a0Columbus (Miami)<\/a>\u00a0closed out its regular season with a 30-7 win over\u00a0Northwestern (Miami)<\/a>. The win guarantees the Explorers a spot in the Columbus was led by quarterback Christopher Barrow<\/a> throwing a pair of touchdown passes.<\/p>\n The Panthers improved to 8-0 with a 75-3 win over\u00a0Skyline (Dallas)<\/a>. It was the second straight game they scored at least 75 points and are averaging 47.7 points per game. They close out the regular season with\u00a0Mansfield<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Red Oak<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n MaxPreps Top 25 National Scoreboard<\/p>\n Friday, 7:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Idle<\/p>\n Friday, 7:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Idle<\/p>\n Friday, 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday, 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Idle<\/p>\n Idle<\/p>\n Friday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n Friday, 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday, 7:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange Lutheran took home the No. 1 spot in our look at the top 10 toughest schedules to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-475182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475182","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=475182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ninaugural FHSAA Open Division playoff bracket.\u00a0<\/p>\n