The 2020 UIL Realignment is in the books, with the new districts drawn for the 2020 and 2021 Texas high school football seasons. So what are the toughest districts in this new-look Texas high school football world?
With help from our data partner Jerry Forrest at PigskinPrep.com, Dave Campbell's Texas Football is proud to unveil its Texas High School Football District Power Rankings — a look at each of the 192 newly drawn UIL Texas high school football districts. The goal here is simple: identify how the new district alignments stack up, and which are truly the most treacherous.
What's the process? The Dave Campbell's Texas Football computer rankings — produced by Jerry Forrest at PigskinPrep.com — assign each Texas high school football team a rating, ending with their final post-2019 rating. With the new districts set by the UIL, we take the average of the postseason ratings for the teams that comprise the newly drawn districts — that gives us our district rating. Then, we rank the districts by district rating from highest to lowest for our District Power Rankings.
A small caveat for the truly wonky: there are few teams aligned in UIL districts who did not get a rating in 2019, almost all of which are new schools. Instead of factoring in a 0.00 rating for those teams — which would severely drag down a district's rating — our formula assigns them a rating equal to the lowest-rated team in their new district. For example: Prosper Rock Hill — now in District 7-5A Division II — technically has a 0.00 rating for 2019, but will instead be counted as having a rating the same as Frisco Memorial, the lowest-rated team in 7-5A DII. Is it perfect? Admittedly, no; but it should help to keep new schools from adversely affecting the district ratings too much.
Here are the 2020 Dave Campbell's Texas Football district power rankings!