This is Tepper’s Take, the weekly offseason column from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football managing editor Greg Tepper. Let him know what you think on Twitter or via e-mail.

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Every summer, we at Dave Campbell’s Texas Football put out a 400-page magazine (perhaps you’ve heard of it). It’s chock-full of analysis and compelling reads, but it’s also got a ton of the thing people love the most: predictions.

We predict everything — college football conference finishes, college football records, who’s going to win the Heisman, who’s going to win every Texas high school football district. It’s essentially a 400-page book of predictions for the upcoming season.

There’s only one thing people love more than predictions: proving predictions wrong.

Together with our partner Jerry Forrest, we crunch the numbers before the season and rank every Texas high school football team as part of our comprehensive computer rankings. Then, we use that data — and our own intuition — to come up with district rankings, state rankings and, eventually, our state championship picks.

And while we do a pretty good job overall of predicting Texas high school football — we correctly nailed 84% of the UIL playoff teams, and 67% of the district champions — we definitely have our swings and misses.

BIG misses.

My parents taught me that when you get something wrong, you own up to it. Here are the teams in each classification that made us look the silliest in 2018.