Texas High School Realignment

The Texas UIL published their bi-annual realignment for Football and Basketball today.  The committee did DFW no favors by moving the Allen/Plano district back into Region 1.  Allen will go from one of the state's smallest districts to one of the largest which will now include Plano ISD, Lewisville ISD (Hebron, Marcus, etc.) and McKinney Boyd.  They will only have room for 2 non-district games.  Region 1 will now sport these recent state winners and powerhouse programs:

District 3 - Abilene, Odessa Permian
District 5 - Denton Guyer, Denton Ryan
District 6 - Allen, Hebron, Marcus, Plano
District 7 - Coppell, Euless Trinity, Southlake
District 8 - Cedar Hill, Desoto

Someone will have to navigate that Region just to make it to the state semi-finals.  The new District 7 jumps out with Coppell, Southlake, and Trinity thrown together for the 1st time.  The interesting thing is that if all 3 make the playoffs, which is likely, then Southlake will fall to Division II because they have the lowest enrollment of the 3.  There is no other Region with anything close to the depth of programs found in Region 1.

The new enrollment figures now place Allen as the largest school in the state, followed closely by all 3 Plano schools, and Dallas Skyline.  Among the schools moving up to the biggest class (now 6A) are Denton Guyer and Highland Park.  Moving down are Longview and Lufkin.  There are 1,121 high schools in Texas playing 11-man football, including 245 at 6A and 253 at 5A.

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