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3A DI - Half time: Malakoff 7, Franklin 0. Eat your heart out, defensive coordinators. It's a struggle out there for points today.

3A D1 - End 1Q: Malakoff 7, Franklin 0. Franklin was driving to tie the game, but a fumble in the endzone brings a painful ending to a promising drive.

2A DI Half time: Albany 21, Mart 3 - Albany really starting to take control of the game towards the end of the first half. Really have a hard time seeing Mart getting back into this one.

Got a defensive slugfest here in the first game of the day. Mart leads Albany 3-0 after one quarter in the rematch.

How dominant was Timpson last night? Well, Terry Bussey had a 97-yard touchdown pass to Dacorian Johnson (longest in state championship history in any classification), ran for a 93-yard touchdown (longest in 2A state championship history) and finished with 566 combined passing and rushing yards and six total touchdowns. Talk about putting your name into the UIL state championship history books! (Also, Timpson when 58-3 in the Terry Bussey era. Finally got over that last hurdle to win it all.)

You can probably say goodnight to this one. Timpson up 14-0 early in the second quarter, and Tolar is struggling to do anything with the football. That and Timpson has Terry Busey, who is basically a cheat code in 2A.

Second game to end with the 45-point mercy rule for six man. Grayson Rigdon now has three state titles ... as a junior — back-to-back with Benjamin and one with Strawn. And apparently that's par for the course for the Rigdon family. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/rigdon-family-six-man-football-benjamin-high-school/

1A D2 - End 1Q: Benjamin 28, Oglesby 20 These officials are ... something. Lot of questionable calls going Benjamin's way at the moment.

Forgot to mention that six man has a 45-point mercy rule in the second half. Rare mercy rule win for Gordon in the state title game. Also, the Longhorns are a young team, so expect to see them back in the title game next year.

State championships are underway with the 1A DI title game between Westbrook and Gordon. Six man is a wildly different game than the normal 11 man game, and I kind of like it.

Hey, stop me if you've heard this one before: Duncanville and Galena Park North Shore will play for the 6A DI state title. Third-straight year and fifth time in six years. Simply incredible run these two programs are on.

Conference and division cutoffs have been announced! Cutoffs: https://www.uiltexas.org/athletics/conference-cutoffs School Enrollment Numbers (from the UIL): https://www.uiltexas.org/files/alignments/Enroll_all_24_26_update_12_7.pdf

And then there were none. Cedar Park got dismantled 44-20 by A&M Consolidated. And Celina fell to Stephenville in a 7-3 defensive slugfest. So no Texas Double this year. Will likely go through the candidates who might contend for this feat in 2024 when I get the time.

Thanks! I completely forgot to update this thread over the weekend. As mentioned, Cedar Park advances to the regional semis. Celina also advanced in 4A DI Region II where they will play Stephenville in what should be a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend battle. We did, however, lose 3A champ Whitesboro who fell 60-19 to Bushland. Bonus fun fact: if Celina and Frisco Panther Creek win this weekend, we'll have a battle between 1st and 2nd place in 4A state marching band for the Region II title. In fact, the top 3 in 4A are 3 of the 4 remaining teams in Region II.

Welp, kiss of death from me, apparently. Lake Travis knocks off Vandergrift 13-10 on a last-second field goal. Elsewhere, Cedar Park comes back to beat New Braunfels Canyon 20-16. Celina rolled over Paris 49-14. And Whitesboro comes back to beat Tuscola Jim Ned 35-34.