LOOK: 10 Amazing (And True) Facts about Texas Football

10 Amazing Wide We at Dave Campbell's Texas Football like to fancy ourselves Texas football experts, but every day, we find out something about football in Texas that surprises us. And we're going to bet that we can surprise you, too. Check out these 10 amazing — and absolutely true — facts about football in Texas. [caption id="attachment_22554" align="aligncenter" width="3000"]A&M (Will Leverett) Photo by Will Leverett[/caption] 1 -- On October 11, 2014, Texas A&M hosted Ole Miss at Kyle Field with 110,631 fans in attendance — the largest football game attendance in the state of Texas. At that moment, Kyle Field would’ve been the 29^th biggest city in the state of Texas, just a little big bigger than Wichita Falls and just a little bit smaller than Midland. 2 -- Speaking of college stadiums, Rice Stadium down in Houston has one of the most unique résumés in the Lone Star State. Aside from being the home of the eponymous Owls since its construction in 1950, it was also the home the rival Houston Cougars for 14 seasons, hosted the Bluebonnet Bowl 11 times, the Houston Oilers for three seasons in the AFL, and even hosted a Super Bowl — Super Bowl VIII, when the Miami Dolphins beat the Minnesota Vikings. [caption id="attachment_22555" align="aligncenter" width="3000"]Jacksonville (John Murphy) Photo by John Murphy[/caption] 3 -- On October 30, 2010, Nacogdoches and Jacksonville played the longest game in national high school football history, with Jacksonville pulling out an 84-81 win in a staggering 12 overtimes. If that weren’t crazy enough, four years later, Jacksonville beat Nacogdoches 85-79, this time in a miniscule five overtimes. So, in those two meetings, the teams combined for 329 points in 17 overtimes. 4 -- There are few names across the Lone Star State that draw reverence like Earl Campbell, and for good reason. A star for the John Tyler Lions, the Texas Longhorns and the Houston Oilers, he ran for 15,582 yards for teams in the state of Texas. Put another way: he ran for 8.8 miles across Texas. 5 -- Prairie Lea is a small high school in Caldwell County that plays six-man football. In 1960, the Indians discontinued their football program, only to revive it in 2001. But the long absence from football has the Indians on an inauspicious list — they haven’t made the playoffs since 1944, before World War II ended. It’s the longest playoff drought in Texas. 6 -- Ever heard of Johnny Manziel? Before he was a superstar Heisman winner at Texas A&M, he was a Mr. Texas Football Player of the Year winner at Kerrville Tivy outside San Antonio. On September 3, 2010, Manziel found his way into the Texas high school football record books when he threw the ball a staggering 75 times in a 39-34 win over San Antonio Madison. It remains the most passing attempts in a single game in state history. [caption id="attachment_22557" align="aligncenter" width="3000"]Celina (JD Bryant) Photo by JD Bryant[/caption] 7 -- On October 16, 1998, Pilot Point beat rival Celina, 24-13. The next time Celina would lose would be to Daingerfield, 21-20, on November 23, 2002. That was a state-record 68-game winning streak, and lasted 1,500 days — four years, one month and eight days. 8 -- Most people know that the 2013 Class 5A Division I state championship game between Allen and Pearland at AT&T Stadium set the national high school football attendance record when 54,347 watched the Eagles beat the Oilers. What you may not realize: 54,347 is larger than the capacity of 78 FBS college football stadiums in the nation, including Oregon’s Autzen Stadium, Colorado’s Folsom Field and Stanford Stadium. [caption id="attachment_22558" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Photo by Artie Guerrero[/caption] 9 -- At some point still to be determined in the 2016 Texas high school football season, the Christoval Cougars will travel to Anthony to take on the Wildcats in a District 3-2A Division I contest. That’s 426 miles away, and will take the Cougars six hours and five minutes to get there (if traffic behaves on Interstate 10). 10 -- According to the venerable TexasBob.com, there are 1,305 high school football stadiums in Texas, with a combined capacity of 4,130,440. That means that the entire population of the state of Oklahoma — or the entire population of the country of Panama — could fit in Texas’ high school football stadiums.