High School
These Texas high school football programs dominate the playoffs
Which Texas high school football programs excel most in the postseason? Teams like Lake Travis, Katy, Aledo, Southlake Carroll, Denton Ryan and Austin Westlake are among the best.
We take it for granted within the borders of the Lone Star State, but the Texas high school football playoffs are a pretty unmatched grind. With 64 teams in each 11-man bracket, a team must win six consecutive games to win a state championship — that's four more wins than it takes to win a College Football Playoff national championship, two more than it takes to win a Super Bowl, and one more than it takes to win an FCS national title or a state championship at the highest level in Florida or Georgia.
And that's not even to consider the mounting pressure that comes with each win-or-go home game, played in front of increasingly swelling crowds and ever-heightening hype on each play.
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