UIL State Championships: Day 4 Takeaways

The 2022 Texas High School Football season concluded on Saturday with a magical run for the DFW area, specifically the Southern sector of Dallas County as DeSoto and Duncanville joined South Oak Cliff who won the state title Friday night as champions. Aledo, from west of Fort Worth took home the 5A-Division I title as well giving DFW a sweep of state title in the state’s four largest classifications.

Aledo, the most dominant TXHSFB program of the last twenty years put on their most emphatic display of dominance in a state title game in school history as the Bearcats absolutely demolished College Station 52-14 to win the 5A-Division I state championship, their eleventh in school history, a UIL record. Aledo WR Jalen Pope set a UIL 5A receiving record in the title game with eight catches for 223 yards and three touchdowns, while QB Hauss Hejny finished the afternoon with 321 yards of total offense, two passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns. HC Tim Buchanan earned his eighth state championship as a head coach at Aledo.