The Five Biggest Fallers in the DCTX TXHSFB Program Rankings
Blum Bobcats, McLean Tigers, Rice Consolidated Raiders, Van Vleck Leopards, and Woodsboro Eagles suffered the steepest drops in this year's TXHSFB Program Rankings
Those five categories are calibrated to a 100-point scale. A perfect six-year stretch — 96-0 (or 90-0 in 6-man) with six state titles — earns a perfect 100. A perfectly miserable six-year slog at 0-96 (or 0-90) nets a zero. Everyone else lands somewhere in between.
This year’s rankings reflect the 2020 through 2025 seasons; last year’s edition covered 2019 through 2024. As always, a program must have competed in six varsity seasons to qualify. That means emerging powers that haven’t completed a full six-year run — like Richmond Randle, San Antonio Davenport and Canyon West Plains — won’t appear just yet.
With that being said, here are the five fallers in the TXHSFB Program Rankings from 2025 to 2026 (1 being steepest drop).
2025 Rank: 694
2026 Rank: 1080
Woodsboro has not had a winning season since going 8-3 in 2017 and 12-1 in 2018 under Xavier Rangel. Current head coach Johnny Lesak inherited a 0-10 program in 2020 and has compiled a 19-41 record over six years. After making the playoffs in back-to-back years in 2023 and 2024, 2025’s 3-7 campaign was a slight step back.
2025 Rank: 419
2026 Rank: 812
Van Vleck made a stunning third-round playoff appearance in 2024 after finishing the regular season at 5-5. The late peak vaulted the Leopards to a preseason No.16 ranking in Class 3A DII. But Van Vleck’s 1-9 finish was the lowest win total since 2006, and head coach Shannon Permenter stepped down to pursue a job outside of coaching after the season.
The district promoted offensive assistant Cody Carney to head coach in late January. Carney is the son of longtime TXHSFB coach Gary Carney, whose 25-year career spanned Harmony, Port Lavaca, Santa Fe, and Hitchcock. The younger Carney won a district championship in 2017 at Hitchcock as the interim head coach.
2025 Rank: 435
2026 Rank: 833
After posting a 7-4 record in 2024, the first winning season in six years, Rice Consolidated skidded to a 1-9 finish in 2025. The one win total was the program’s lowest since 1996.
Rice Consolidated was the preseason No.25-ranked program in Class 3A DII despite graduating numerous three-year starters, largely because of dynamic junior QB Kordae Johnson. But those expectations did not materialize on the field.
2025 Rank: 265
2026 Rank: 857
In 2018 and 2019, McLean made back-to-back Class 1A State Championships behind superstar Ben Crockett, who scored a then-Class 1A record nine rushing touchdowns in a state championship game. But Crockett’s headlines sometimes distract from the depth those Clint Linman-coached McLean teams had with Chism Henderson, Kater Tate, and Bradley Hannon.
After posting a 39-3 record in three seasons, Linman took a job at Miami and then led Whiteface to the 2024 Class 1A DI State Championship. McLean, on the other hand, has not made the playoffs since Crockett and Co. left, despite having a winning record in the regular season in 2022 and 2023.
2025 Rank: 163
2026 Rank: 934
The Blum Bobcats had the steepest drop of any TXHSFB program in the rankings because their 2019 Class 1A DI State Championship season (when they pulled an all-time upset as 17-point underdogs to McLean) is now outside the past six varsity seasons factored in. Blum had 12 winning seasons from 2008 to 2020, but the Bobcats have missed the playoffs in each of the three years.
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