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By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice DFW football fans, this is the week where a season can end in one bad quarter. The bi-district round starts Thursday night, and between the unbeaten teams protecting perfect records and the name programs with ugly records, there are a lot of ways for this weekend to go sideways. The facts Per the bi-district schedule compiled by Texas Football and distributed by the Associated Press through NBC 5, Allen (10-0) hosts Lewisville Hebron (5-5) in Class 6A Division I at 7 p.m. Thursday at Eagle Stadium. Allen Weekly reports the Eagles closed the regular season with a 62-7 win over Prosper Walnut Grove. Also Thursday, per VYPE's Cody Thorn, unbeaten Frisco Lone Star faces Birdville (7-3) at the Ford Center at The Star; VYPE notes Birdville started 5-0 before finishing as the fourth seed in District 6-5A Division I. Friday's 6A Division I Region I slate, per NBC 5, includes Prosper (9-1) at Lewisville (7-3) at G...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice DFW football fans, the regular season is done and the bracket is real. Bi-district opens Thursday night, and the schedule has a few games that could reshape the Class 6A field before Thanksgiving. The facts Per the schedule compiled by Texas Football and distributed by the Associated Press through NBC 5, Allen (10-0) hosts Lewisville Hebron (5-5) in 6A Division I Region I at 7 p.m. Thursday at Eagle Stadium. Allen Weekly reports the Eagles finished the regular season with a 62-7 win over Prosper Walnut Grove, leading 42-0 at halftime. On Friday in Region I: Prosper (9-1) at Lewisville (7-3), 7 p.m. at Goldsmith Stadium; Coppell (8-2) vs. South Grand Prairie (7-3), 7 p.m. at Mustang-Panther Stadium; Arlington Martin (10-0) vs. Northwest Nelson (6-4), 7 p.m. at Glaspie Field; Keller (7-3) vs. Arlington (6-4), 7 p.m. at Keller ISD Stadium; and Euless Trinity (9-1) vs. Plano East (6-4), 7:30 p.m. at Pennington Field....

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice DFW, the brackets are certified and the playoffs start Thursday. Saturday was district certification day across Texas, and now the first-round schedule is filling in. The opener is a heavyweight: Hebron at Allen on Thursday night. The facts Per HS Football Nation's bi-district breakdown, bi-district games run Nov. 12-14. Allen hosts Hebron at 7 p.m. Thursday in Class 6A Division I; the last time they met in a bi-district game, in November 2021, Allen won 59-30. Elsewhere in Region I of 6A Division I, Prosper visits Lewisville at Max Goldsmith Stadium, Plano East travels to Euless Trinity at Pennington Field, Coppell meets South Grand Prairie in Grapevine, Byron Nelson visits Arlington Martin, and Keller meets Arlington at Keller ISD Stadium. In Region II, Duncanville, last season's 6A Division I runner-up after a 10-7 loss to North Shore, opens against Waco Midway at Baylor's McLane Stadium. Rockwall ...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice DFW, the regular season is over and the real season starts Friday. The final week delivered a 66-7 statement from Duncanville, a 49-42 shootout in Mansfield, and bi-district pairings that put several big programs on the road right away. The facts Per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and GM Sports Media's Week 11 boards, Friday's finales included Aledo 28, Arlington Lamar 3 in District 3-6A; Keller Central 35, Justin Northwest 14 and Keller 35, Haslet Eaton 28 in 4-6A; South Grand Prairie 27, Grand Prairie 7 and Irving Nimitz 27, Irving 0 in 8-6A; and Duncanville 66, Dallas Skyline 7 and Mansfield Lake Ridge 49, Crowley 42 in 11-6A. In 3-5A Division I, Denton Ryan beat Fort Worth Chisholm Trail 42-6 and Denton beat Keller Fossil Ridge 42-12. Elsewhere, Prosper beat Princeton 45-7, Plano West beat Plano 28-14, Lake Highlands beat Richardson 38-7, Wylie beat South Garland 47-20 and Rockwall beat Rockwall-Heath 53-...

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 Tr...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Coaches, players, families: Thursday night in DFW is a playoff before the playoffs. Several districts will finish their business under the lights, and a few seasons will end before Friday even starts. The facts Dallas Jesuit (4-5, 4-3) visits Prosper Rock Hill (5-4, 3-3) tonight in a winner-take-all game for the final District 6-6A playoff berth, per People Newspapers. Allen, Prosper and Prosper Walnut Grove have already clinched. Jesuit is chasing an eighth straight playoff appearance after a 35-34 loss to McKinney. Senior Ty Daboub has 944 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns after a career-high 194-yard night in that McKinney game, per People Newspapers. In District 7-6A, Coppell (7-2, 5-1) hosts Plano East (6-3, 4-2) at Buddy Echols Stadium, per VYPE. Plano East went 3-7 a year ago, and a playoff spot is not locked without a win because Richardson Berkner and Plano sit at 3-3 in district. Also Thursday: Red Oak at...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Coaches, players, families: this is the week where a season becomes a playoff run or a banquet. For a lot of DFW programs, Thursday night is a one-game playoff before the real playoffs even start. The facts Dallas Jesuit (4-5, 4-3) visits Prosper Rock Hill (5-4, 3-3) on Thursday in a winner-take-all game for the final District 6-6A playoff spot, per People Newspapers. Allen, Prosper and Prosper Walnut Grove have clinched. Jesuit is chasing its eighth straight playoff berth after a 35-34 loss to McKinney, when a 2-point try with 16 seconds left just missed. "We just have to regroup and get ready on a short week," coach Brandon Hickman said, per People Newspapers. Senior Ty Daboub ran for a career-high 194 yards in that game and has 944 yards and 16 touchdowns this season. In District 7-6A, Coppell (7-2, 5-1) hosts Plano East (6-3, 4-2) Thursday at Buddy Echols Stadium, per VYPE. Plano East went 3-7 last ...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Coaches always tell kids to play for the name on the front of the jersey. This week, a handful of DFW programs get to play for their own history books, and most of the big ones are on Thursday night. The facts Arlington Martin (9-0, 6-0) already clinched the District 3-6A title with a 41-31 win over Arlington, and the Warriors are one win from the program's first undefeated regular season, per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Martin plays Granbury on Thursday at Pirate Stadium. The Warriors have won district titles in six of the past eight seasons, per the Star-Telegram. Hurst L.D. Bell (6-3, 5-1) clinched its first playoff spot since 2013 with a 64-10 win over Irving MacArthur, per the Star-Telegram. Now Bell faces HEB ISD rival Euless Trinity (7-2, 6-0) at 7 p.m. Thursday at Pennington Field. Trinity has clinched a share of the 8-6A title and wins it outright with a victory. Bell coach T.J. Dibble said the Blu...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Monday in North Texas means film, ice tubs and a whiteboard full of playoff math. Week 11 is the last week of the regular season for a lot of districts, and most of the big games are on Thursday, so coaches have one fewer day than usual to get ready. The facts Inside High School Sports DFW lists 71 games across North Texas on Nov. 5 and 6, with 38 on Thursday and 33 on Friday. Its Thursday headliners: Prosper Walnut Grove at 6A No. 1 Allen, Red Oak at 6A No. 2 North Crowley, Cleburne at 5A Division I No. 1 DeSoto, and 5A Division II No. 1 South Oak Cliff at Samuell. The Dallas Morning News' Week 11 storylines say Arlington Martin is chasing an undefeated season and that Jesuit and Prosper Rock Hill meet for District 6-6A's final playoff berth. The News also reports Flower Mound must beat Denton Guyer to keep its District 5-6A playoff chances alive, and L.D. Bell can win a share of the District 8-6A title ...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Sunday morning, North Texas. Week 10 is in the books, the film is getting broken down, and the playoff bracket is starting to take shape. Some programs spent Friday night clinching. Others spent it surviving. A few are still doing math. The facts Allen clinched the District 6-6A title and the No. 1 Division I seed with its 56-14 win at McKinney Boyd, per HS Football Nation. North Crowley clinched the District 11-6A title Thursday with a 72-10 win over Mansfield and is 9-0, per HS Football Nation, which projects the Eagles into Division II. Waxahachie won 34-0 at Crowley and Duncanville beat Mansfield Lake Ridge 35-16, results HS Football Nation lists as securing playoff berths. In Denton County, the Denton Record-Chronicle reports Aubrey clinched its first district title since 2023 and Lake Dallas secured a playoff berth. Some races go to the final week. The Record-Chronicle reports Denton Braswell can clinch w...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Friday night lights, North Texas. Week 10 had a one-point upset, a one-point escape, an 80-point night and more running clocks than I can count. With playoff spots on the line, this is when districts get decided, and a few of them got shaken up. The facts Unranked McKinney beat 6A No. 16 Jesuit 35-34, and 6A No. 19 Hebron held off Flower Mound 42-41, per Inside High School Sports DFW's Week 10 scoreboard. Top-ranked Allen won 56-14 at McKinney Boyd. Those results join Thursday's upset, when 6A No. 21 Wylie East beat No. 12 Sachse 21-16. Across Dallas and the suburbs, Lake Highlands won 45-24 at Plano West, Prosper beat Prosper Walnut Grove 52-10, Rockwall beat Royse City 42-22, and North Forney edged Rockwall-Heath 38-35, per Inside High School Sports DFW. Plano won 22-20 at Richardson Berkner, and Anna beat Celina 35-28. DeSoto, No. 1 in 5A Division I, shut out Mansfield Legacy. On the Fort Worth side,...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice Friday night in North Texas, coaches and fans. Week 10 started on Thursday, and two games already shook up the district picture before tonight's full slate kicks off. The facts No. 1 North Crowley beat Mansfield 72-10 on Thursday at Newsom Stadium to clinch at least a share of the District 11-6A title, its fifth straight district crown, per the Star-Telegram. The Panthers (9-0) led 30-0 at halftime. Quarterback Jacob Torres went 14-of-15 for 268 yards and two touchdowns, and four-star receiver Damarion Mays caught nine passes for 219 yards. North Crowley has outscored opponents 454-139 and is likely headed for the Class 6A Division II bracket, the paper reported. Coach DeMarcus Harris said: "It feels real good to go into the district of doom and win district." In the game we previewed Thursday, MaxPreps lists a 21-16 Wylie East win over Sachse, with both teams now 8-1. That result was reported to Ma...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school football voice Friday night lights start a day early this week, DFW. Thursday night in Wylie has a district championship feel, and there is plenty more on the slate around the Metroplex. The facts Sachse and Wylie East meet tonight at 7 at Wylie ISD Stadium, with the winner clinching at least a share of the District 9-6A title, per the Murphy-Wylie-Sachse Courier. Sachse is 8-0 and Wylie East is 7-1, and both are 5-0 in district. The game airs on FOX 4 Plus (KDFI 27) and the FOX Local app as the Sonic Game of the Week, according to Wylie ISD via the Courier. The big question is Sachse quarterback Christian McCaffrey. He left the Oct. 16 win over North Garland with an apparent injury and did not play in the 36-10 win over Lakeview Centennial, and his status for tonight has not been confirmed, per the Courier. Austin Taylor stepped in and hit Brendon Quinn for a 51-yard touchdown before halftime in that game. Receiver DJ...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school football voice Friday night folks, I have been around this game a long time, and there's nothing like a brand-new rivalry between kids who grew up playing on the same youth teams. That is what we get in Prosper on Friday night. The facts No. 6 Prosper and Walnut Grove, two Prosper ISD schools, both 7-1 and 4-1 in district play, meet for the first time on Friday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. at Children's Health Stadium, per the Prosper-Celina Journal, citing MaxPreps. Walnut Grove is the home team. Prosper is second in the district, and Walnut Grove is third. Prosper has won four straight, including a 64-7 rout of McKinney Boyd on Oct. 22, and has outscored opponents 420-247. Its only loss was 51-21 to Allen on Sept. 17. Walnut Grove beat Princeton 49-14 on Oct. 23, and its only loss was a 50-49 overtime game against Dallas Jesuit on Oct. 8. The Wildcats have outscored opponents 361-165. Walnut Grove moved up to Class...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio high school football voice Friday night faithful, the new state rankings are out, and North Texas is sitting at the top of the biggest classification in the state. Two weeks from the end of the regular season, that is a statement about where Texas football power lives right now. The facts In Dave Campbell's Texas Football's Week 10 state rankings, the official Associated Press poll, North Crowley (8-0) is No. 1 in Class 6A after beating Dallas Skyline 75-3, and Allen (8-0) moved up from No. 3 to No. 2 after beating Dallas Jesuit 77-14. Galena Park North Shore fell from No. 2 to No. 8 after losing to Sheldon C.E. King. Other DFW teams in the 6A top 25: Lewisville (5-3) at No. 7 after beating Flower Mound 28-18, Waxahachie (7-1) at No. 11 after a 35-28 win over Duncanville, Denton Guyer (6-2) at No. 13, Prosper (7-1) at No. 14 after a 63-12 win over McKinney Boyd, Southlake Carroll (6-2) at No. 18 and Arlington Martin (8-0) at ...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW High School Football voice Football families, we are down to the last two weeks of the regular season, and this is when district races get decided and playoff seeding gets settled. Week 10 has a district title game on Thursday night and a couple of Friday matchups I have circled in red. The facts The Dallas Morning News laid out the Week 10 storylines. Start with the District 9-6A title, which will be decided Thursday at 7 p.m. when Sachse (8-0, 5-0) plays at Wylie East (7-1, 5-0). Wylie East went 8-0 in 9-6A last year, including a 38-7 win over Sachse. Sachse quarterback Christian McCaffrey has 23 touchdown passes for an offense that averages 42.9 points, and receiver DJ Doyle has 37 catches for 888 yards and 10 touchdowns. Wylie East leans on its running game, led by Victor Ekpo's 559 yards. Allen is 8-0, has outscored opponents 465-107 and is winning by an average of 44.8 points, per the News. MaxPreps ranks the Eagles No...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW High School Football voice DFW high school fans, Week 9 is in the books, Saturday's games are final, and the calendar is not your friend anymore. There are two weeks left in the regular season, and the district races around the Metroplex are starting to separate the contenders from the hopefuls. The facts Start in District 6-6A, where Allen beat Dallas Jesuit 77-14. Per HS Football Nation's Week 9 recaps, the Eagles entered 7-0 with wins over Duncanville, DeSoto, Southlake Carroll and Prosper, and they have scored 65 or more points in four straight district games . Prosper routed McKinney Boyd 64-7 on Thursday. Allen closes at McKinney Boyd on Friday, Oct. 30, and against Prosper Walnut Grove on Thursday, Nov. 5, with the district title in its own hands. In District 11-6A, Waxahachie's 35-28 win over Duncanville avenged last December's 35-27 regional final loss , per HS Football Nation. The Indians built a 35-14 ha...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW High School Football voice DFW high school fans, the UIL gave Laykon Brassfield his eligibility back on Thursday. On Friday night, he needed every one of the final 91 seconds to make it count. The facts Lewisville scored 14 points in the final 91 seconds to beat Flower Mound 28-18 in a District 5-6A showdown at Neal E. Wilson Jaguar Stadium, per Star Local Media's Lewisville Leader. Brassfield, reinstated a day earlier by the UIL State Executive Committee, totaled two touchdowns in his return. Flower Mound led 6-0 after a quarter on Coy Dowell's 5-yard run, and Lewisville led 14-12 at halftime after Brassfield touchdown passes to Landon Brazzell and Kason Crumpton. The Dallas Morning News reports the Farmers stayed unbeaten in district play, while Flower Mound was chasing its first win over Lewisville since 2019. "We played all 48 minutes, and the guys just never gave up," coach Michael Odle said. In 11-6A, Waxa...

By Brooke Calloway , RF Sports Radio SMU voice Pony Up. All week we have talked about revenge for last November in Berkeley. Here is the twist: the guy who scored the touchdown that ended SMU's ACC title hopes now wears red and blue, and he might be the most important player on the field Saturday. The facts On Nov. 29, 2025, Kendrick Raphael ran in from 2 yards out with 43 seconds left to give Cal a 38-35 win over No. 25 SMU, per the AP recap on SMU Athletics' site. It was his 12th rushing touchdown of that season and it knocked the Mustangs out of the ACC Championship Game race. In January, Raphael transferred to SMU after a 2025 season with 943 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns, per On3. Raphael ran for 119 yards in last week's 23-13 win over Virginia, his second 100-yard game this season, per Roundtable's Timothy Hamm. With Dramekco Green out with a hand injury, he figures to carry an even bigger load. Cal allows 181.4 rushing yards per game, which ranks 111t...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW High School Football voice DFW high school fans, Week 9 starts tonight, and it starts with the best team in the area hitting the road. Then Friday brings the matchup I have been waiting on all fall: one of the stingiest defenses in the area against one of the most productive offenses in Dallas. The facts North Crowley (7-0) plays at Dallas Skyline (2-5) tonight, Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. , per MaxPreps. The Panthers are coming off the 76-point night we covered Tuesday and have been the standard in the area all season. On Friday, Allen hosts Dallas Jesuit at 7 p.m. at Eagle Stadium, per Star Local Media's Pick-It Line. Allen is 7-0 with an average margin of victory of 30.1 points , has beaten four straight state-ranked opponents, and has scored more than 50 points in the first half against each of its last three district foes. The Eagles allow 241.6 yards and 13.3 points per game. Jesuit is 3-1 in district play and averag...