TXHSFB Regional Review: San Antonio

[caption id="attachment_29246" align="aligncenter" width="700"]Photo by John Hamilton Photo by John Hamilton[/caption] Throughout February, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football managing editor Greg Tepper is taking a look back at the 2016 Texas high school football season in each region of the state. For a detailed explanation of the regional breakdowns as well as the rankings methodology, read this piece.Previously... Big Country Super Centex Coastal Bend Dallas-Fort WorthEast TexasEl PasoGolden TriangleHill Country Houston North Texas Northeast Texas Panhandle Permian Basin Piney WoodsToday: San Antonio Alamo City fans may want to avert their eyes for the next paragraph. In the last ten seasons, there have been 40 state champions in the top two classifications — 6A Division I, 6A DII, 5A DI and 5A DII. Of those 40 state champs, would you care to guess how many have hailed from the greater San Antonio area? One. That's right: San Antonio has brought home just a single big-school state championship in the last ten seasons — Cibolo Steele's 2010 5A Division II title. And if you expand it back to the turn of the century, it doesn't get a whole lot better; you add Alamo Heights' 2006 title and Converse Judson's 2002 title, but in sum, San Antonio has just three of the 68 big-school state championships in this century. This isn't to pick on the Alamo City — far from it. If anything, the greater San Antonio area has been a haven of underrated small-school high school football. But the 2016 season was much like the 15 that preceded it in many regards. For the sake of clarity, here is a map of how we are defining “San Antonio." Now that we’ve set the boundaries, let’s break down the best of high school football in San Antonio in 2016. Top 20