Every Texas high school football team shares the same dream — to win a state championship. But before teams can even consider playoff glory, they have to navigate the regular season.
Perfect regular seasons are relatively rare: fewer than 5 percent of Texas high school football teams accomplished an undefeated regular season in 2023 (just 70 our of 1,501 teams). And to be clear, making it through the regular season unscathed is no guarantee of playoff success — just ten teams finished a true perfect season, winning a state championship without a loss. And on the flip side, finishing with a loss is no guarantee of playoff failure — of the 19 UIL and TAPPS state champions in 2023, nine of them finished with at least one loss.