Texas high school football rankings: AP vs. DCTF

[caption id="attachment_24417" align="aligncenter" width="640"]Photo by Gary Sanderson Photo by Gary Sanderson[/caption] We’re just 15 days out from the start of the 2016 Texas high school football season, and the excitement is palpable across the Lone Star State. Fans are hungry for anything even resembling football, so the release of the Associated Press’ preseason Texas high school football rankings are a welcome bit of nip to the state’s hungry paws. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, as you probably know, also does Texas high school football rankings. So let’s take a look at where the AP’s rankings stack up against DCTF’s. Before we begin, a caveat: the AP’s rankings are sometimes (OK, often) a bit wonky, in large part because it is a poll of writers across the state. Those writers are as plugged-in to their area’s teams as anyone, but by their very nature, they are focused on their area’s teams as opposed to the statewide perspective. A writer in Houston, for example, probably knows a ton about what Katy has coming back but may not know how Allen’s team should fare this year. As a result, you see a lot of the blue-bloods — the traditional powers — as the default teams in the rankings, because they’re always good. That’s not to say that our rankings are right and their rankings are wrong, or vice versa; simply to illustrate that major discrepancies can and will occur. So, let’s dive in. CLASS 6A