There are only two weeks left in the regular season for Texas high school football. There are still a lot of playoff spots up for grabs, but it\u2019s not too early to look ahead to the playoffs that begin Nov. 12-14.<\/p>\n
Here are predictions for what the first-round matchups will look like in Class 6A, broken down by Division I and Division II.<\/p>\n
District 3-6A vs. 4-6A<\/p>\n
Arlington Martin vs. Trophy Club Byron Nelson<\/p>\n
Keller vs. Arlington High<\/p>\n
Southlake Carroll vs. Arlington Bowie<\/p>\n
Best first-round matchup: Aledo vs. Keller Central. Twelve-time state champion Aledo moved up from 5A to 6A in realignment and is 5-3. That\u2019s the same number of losses Aledo had the past three years combined. Could a Keller Central team led by four-star recruits Isaiah Taylor and Jeremiah Taylor pull off an upset?<\/p>\n
5-6A vs. 6-6A<\/p>\n
Prosper Walnut Grove vs. Flower Mound<\/p>\n
7-6A vs. 8-6A<\/p>\n
Coppell vs. South Grand Prairie<\/p>\n
Euless Trinity vs. Plano East<\/p>\n
Lake Highlands vs. Haltom<\/p>\n
Hurst L.D. Bell vs. Richardson Berkner<\/p>\n
Best first-round matchup: Coppell vs. South Grand Prairie. Coppell four-star quarterback Carter Zingelmann would be going against an SGP defense that allows just 20.9 points per game \u2014 15th best among area 6A schools.<\/p>\n
9-6A vs. 10-6A<\/p>\n
Sachse vs. Rockwall-Heath<\/p>\n
Wylie East vs. North Forney<\/p>\n
Best first-round matchup: Sachse vs. Rockwall-Heath. Both of these teams are in the 6A area rankings, with Sachse No. 9 and Rockwall-Heath No. 18. This matchup would feature the top two 6A receivers in D-FW for yardage \u2014 Rockwall-Heath\u2019s Christian Contreras (1,082 yards and 12 touchdowns) and Sachse\u2019s DJ Doyle (880 yards and 10 touchdowns).<\/p>\n
11-6A vs. 12-6A<\/p>\n
Waxahachie vs. Copperas Cove<\/p>\n
Waco Midway vs. Duncanville<\/p>\n
North Crowley vs. Lake Belton<\/p>\n
Killeen Harker Heights vs. Red Oak<\/p>\n
Best first-round matchup: Waco Midway vs. Duncanville. Midway is 8-1 and has won six in a row behind running back Lathan Whisenton (1,118 yards and 21 touchdowns). But three-time state champion Duncanville would be the favorite here, despite currently owning a 4-4 record \u2014 the first time it has lost four games in a season since going 2-8 in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are only two weeks left in the regular season for Texas high school football. There are still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-478569","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\/478569","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=478569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}