Rock Hill Punches In, Coppell Rolls, and Friday Night Finishes the Regular Season Across DFW

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RF Sports Radio branded title card with generic football icon: Rock Hill in, Friday finales

By Coach Terrence Booker, RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice

DFW, Thursday night settled the bubble and Friday night closes the book. Prosper Rock Hill is in. Dallas Jesuit is out. Coppell grabbed the top seed out of 7-6A. Now the regular-season finales finish what the district races started.

The facts

Per GM Sports Media's Week 11 scoreboard and the Dallas Morning News, Prosper Rock Hill beat Dallas Jesuit 45-28 on Thursday to claim the final playoff berth in District 6-6A. Rock Hill improved to 6-4 and clinched; Jesuit fell to 4-6. MaxPreps confirmed the 45-28 final. The News noted Rock Hill scored on six of nine drives and piled up 513 yards in its third straight game with at least 38 points.

In District 7-6A, Coppell beat Plano East 48-15 at Buddy Echols Field, per the Murphy Monitor. Coppell (8-2) earned the No. 1 Class 6A Division I playoff seed from the district. Plano East (6-4), already playoff-bound for the first time since 2023, will travel to face Euless Trinity in bi-district after Coppell scored 28 points in the final 5:21. Elsewhere Thursday: North Crowley 62, Red Oak 3; Allen 63, Prosper Walnut Grove 7; Southlake Carroll 54, Boswell 7; Euless Trinity 17, L.D. Bell 14; Braswell 20, Hebron 19; Arlington Martin 70, Granbury 14; DeSoto 83, Cleburne 0, per Star-Telegram and GM Sports boards.

Friday's finale slate, per Star-Telegram scheduling, includes Arlington Lamar at Aledo, Keller Central at Northwest, Crowley at Mansfield Lake Ridge, Denton Ryan at Fort Worth Chisholm Trail and Keller Fossil Ridge at Denton around 7 p.m., plus Duncanville at Skyline at 7:30 p.m. Official playoff brackets are due over the weekend, with bi-district games expected to begin around Nov. 12.

Thursday also reminded everyone that districts still reward finishing. Allen and Southlake looked like November teams. Braswell surviving Hebron by one is the kind of result that becomes a playoff seed story later. Coaches hate moral victories; they love clean special teams and short fields. That is the tape worth keeping.

RF Sports Radio's take (opinion)

My take: Rock Hill earned the spot the hard way, and Jesuit's season ends with a lesson about finishing district nights. Coppell's late surge was ruthless and seed-worthy.

Friday is for the teams still playing for seed math and pride. Duncanville-Skyline always feels bigger than a Week 11 line. Aledo and Lamar will tell you something about November readiness. Do not treat finales like exhibitions.

Opinion: the teams that travel clean into bi-district are the ones that practiced Thursday's film like it was already the playoffs.

What to watch next

Watch Friday's finales and Saturday's bracket drop, then bi-district pairings. For Thursday's winner-take-all preview, read our Nov. 5 winner-take-all Thursday preview, and follow the metro on our DFW High School Football page.

Radio question: after Rock Hill punched its ticket, which Friday finale will decide the most important seed in DFW?

Sources: GM Sports Media - DFW Football Scores Week 11; Dallas Morning News - Rock Hill downs Jesuit to clinch playoff berth; Murphy Monitor - Coppell beats Plano East 48-15; Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Week 11 scores and Friday schedule.

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