The Texas high school football season has concluded now, with the state championship games all played this week at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.  We got out the Texas Football Magazine, published in July of this year, and checked their predictions versus who actually won.

In each of the twelve classifications (1A through 6A, with Division One and Division Two in each classification) there were five predictions:  the four Regional champions and the State Champion.  That’s sixty predictions by Texas Football Magazine, and they got 36 correct for a 60% rate.  That’s not bad!  How much of that is Texas Football being smart, and how much is some football programs being so strong as to make the prediction easy, I don’t know.  Probably a little of both.

Interestingly, Texas Football did the worst in Brownwood’s classification of 4A Div 1, where they got right only one out of the five predictions.  They did the best in Classes 1A Div. 1, 2A Div. 2, 3A Div. 2, and 5A Div. 2, where they correctly predicted four out of five.

So here are the actual Region winners and the State Champions.  The names in bold means Texas Football got it right.  If not, the Texas Football prediction is in parentheses.

CLASS 1A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  Whitharral (TFM prediction:  Balmorhea)

Region 2:  Benjamin

Region 3:  Oakwood (TFM: Oglesby)

Region 4:  Loraine (TFM: Richland Springs)

State Champion:  Benjamin

CLASS 1A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Happy

Region 2:  Westbrook

Region 3:  Abbott

Region 4:  Irion County (TFM:  May)

State Champion:  Westbrook

CLASS 2A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  New Home (TFM:  Wellington)

Region 2:  Albany

Region 3:  Mart

Region 4:  Burton

State Champion:  Albany

CLASS 2A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Hawley

Region 2:  Crawford (TFM:  Marlin)

Region 3:  Timpson

Region 4:  Refugio (TFM:  Shiner)

State Champion:  Hawley (TFM:  Shiner)

CLASS 3A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  Canadian

Region 2:  Gunter

Region 3:  Harmony (TFM:  Newton)

Region 4:  Poth

State Champion:  Gunter

CLASS 3A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Brock

Region 2:  Malakoff (TFM:  Mount Vernon)

Region 3:  Franklin

Region 4:  Edna

State Champion:  Franklin (TFM:  Brock)

CLASS 4A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  Glen Rose (TFM:  Wichita Falls Hirschi)

Region 2:  Carthage

Region 3:  Cuero (TFM:  West Orange-Stark)

Region 4:  Wimberly

State Champion:  Carthage

CLASS 4A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Decatur (TFM:  Dumas)

Region 2:  China Spring (TFM:  Stephenville)

Region 3:  Tyler Chapel Hill

Region 4:  Boerne (TFM:  Corpus Christi Calallen)

State Champion:  China Spring (TFM:  Stephenville)

CLASS 5A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  Argyle

Region 2:  South Oak Cliff

Region 3:  Port Neches-Grove (TFM:  Fort Bend Marshall)

Region 4:  Liberty Hill

State Champion:  South Oak Cliff

CLASS 5A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Aledo (TFM:  Denton Ryan)

Region 2:  Longview

Region 3:  College Station

Region 4:  Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial

State Champion:  Aledo (TFM:  Longview)

CLASS 6A, DIV. 2

Region 1:  Denton Guyer (TFM:  Southlake Carroll)

Region 2:  DeSoto

Region 3:  Katy

Region 4:  Austin Vandegrift

State Champion:  DeSoto (TFM:  Southlake Carroll)

CLASS 6A, DIV. 1

Region 1:  Prosper (TFM:  Allen)

Region 2:  Duncanville

Region 3:  Galena Park North Shore

Region 4:  Austin Westlake

State Champion:  Duncanville (TFM:  Austin Westlake)