The Texas high school football playoffs are a tough tournament to survive, no matter the classification. Going into round three, the regional semifinals, there were nine Texas Longhorn football commits from the state of Texas whose teams were still alive and three wins away from reaching a state championship game. Five of those recruits turned in their equipment after that week, and one more joined them after last weekend’s round four (aka, the regional finals, aka the state quarterfinals) action.
There was a definite pattern to the four games last week involving UT commits. Each game was close for at least the first half, and three of the games were far from decided going into the 4th quarter, but in each game one team made enough plays in the final quarter to earn a fairly decisive win, and Caden Sterns’s Cibolo Steele team ended up on the losing side in one of those matchups.