TXHSFB: Top DFW high school football matchups of the week

DALLAS — Three weeks of Texas high school football are in the books and the top-tier matchups proceed to grace the schedule.

Throughout the season, WFAA will stream broadcasts of native high school football video games. WFAA sports activities anchor Mike Leslie will as soon as once more function the play-by play announcer all season. Former Lincoln High School and Kansas State linebacker Hek’ma Harrison will function shade commentator. 

This week, Leslie and Harrison can be calling a matchup of two of the hottest groups in the state: Prosper and Denton Guyer. You can watch that broadcast on WFAA’s YouTube channel and WFAA+ on Saturday:

For a full schedule of the video games referred to as by Leslie and Harrison, click on right here.

Now, listed below are WFAA’s prime 5 DFW matchups this week

Denton Guyer has dominated its slate so far, outscoring its opponents 141-55 by way of three video games. And that is towards formidable opponents in area-ranked Rockwall-Heath, 10-time state champion Aledo and state-ranked Lancaster. Denton Guyer is led by its five-star Oklahoma commit quarterback Jackson Arnold, who has thrown for 869 yards, 10 touchdowns and no interceptions.

Prosper boasts one of the space’s prime quarterbacks, as effectively. Arnold and Prosper’s Harrison Rosar – who has thrown for 740 yards – each rank in the prime 10 amongst Class 6A space quarterbacks in passing yards.

Against Rockwall, ranked No. 8 in the state, Prosper allowed solely 230 complete yards, together with 22 dashing yards on 26 makes an attempt, in a 19-11 victory final week to enhance to 3-0.

This sport will kick off at 7 p.m. Friday at C.H. Collins Athletic Complex. You can watch the sport on WFAA’s YouTube channel or on WFAA+.

Defending TAPPS Division I state champion Parish Episcopal began off the 12 months sturdy, upsetting 10-time UIL state champion Aledo in week one and grabbing a giant highway win over 2021 4A Division I state runner-up Austin LBJ. 

Now, Parish Episcopal provides one other juggernaut to its schedule: defending 5A Division II state champion South Oak Cliff (SOC). SOC has began off the 12 months 0-3, however as a consequence of a monstrous non-district schedule, that includes the likes of Duncanville, Lancaster and DeSoto.

Parish Episcopal quarterback Sawyer Anderson has thrown for 644 yards and 9 touchdowns so far, however can be examined by a SOC secondary led by four-star Texas Longhorns commit Malik Muhammad.

This matchup will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Gloria H. Snyder Stadium.

An undefeated McKinney North squad takes on Lancaster, who simply knocked off defending state champ South Oak Cliff. Lancaster’s solely loss this season got here at the fingers of Denton Guyer, who could also be one of if not the prime group in Texas by the finish of the 12 months.

McKinney North made some noise with a ranked win over Justin Northwest in Week 2. McKinney North quarterback Colin Hitchcock ranks as one of the space’s prime 10 5A quarterbacks.

This sport kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Beverly D. Humphrey Tiger Stadium.

This is a marquee matchup between two prime Class 4A squads. You’ve received No. 1 Celina versus No. 2 Anna, each of that are undefeated.

Anna’s quarterback – who transferred from powerhouse Allen and is dedicated to Louisiana Tech – leads the space in passing yards (1,138) and landing passes (15). Conversely, Celina leads space 4A/3A groups in scoring (56.7 factors per sport) and ranks third in dashing (262.7 yards per sport).

This sport will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Coyote Stadium.

Don’t let Brock’s 0-3 document idiot you. All three of their non-district opponents have been top-10 ranked groups one classification degree up in 4A (Pleasant Grove, Hirschi and Wimberley). 

Brock will nonetheless have its fingers full, nonetheless, ending the non-district slate towards the prime ranked group in 3A Division II with Gunter. Brock was a state runner-up final season (3A Division II) after falling to Moody 35-18.

Gunter has three wins after enjoying two video games (opening sport was gained by way of forfeit), defeating Trinity Leadership, 67-6, and Trinity Christian, 41-0. Gunter additionally completed a state-runner up final season, falling to Franklin in the title sport in 2021 (3A Division I).

This sport will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at Eagle Stadium.

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