Realignment Central presented by James Hardie: Class 6A Winners and Losers from 2020 UIL Realignment

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UIL Realignment’s bi-annual festivities provide plenty of fireworks that reverberate across the Lone Star State.

Despite all the guesswork that’s done by many (yours truly included), the UIL always manages to throw a few curveballs our way every time.

Let’s take a look at Class 6A and see who won the day and who came away from realignment shaking their head.

Winners

District 7-6A: If you can find a district where EVERYONE is happy with how things played out, it’s this one. Dallas Jesuit avoids some of the powerhouses to the north, east and south and gets a district that it feel like it should be able to win. Richardson ISD could easily secure three playoff spots in this district as well with Lake Highlands and Pearce both getting playoff wins recently. While Berkner, Richardson and Irving ISD, who have struggled recently, all will have a reasonable shot to battle it out for a playoff spot. This, especially for Irving ISD’s schools, is a best-case scenario.

Bryan: The Vikings move back west into much more familiar surroundings, going from a meat grinder that featured Cy-Fair ISD into a more traditional alignment in Central Texas with Killeen ISD, Temple, Copperas Cove and Belton. The added bonus for Bryan is Waco Midway is off to a brutal DFW-area district, thus opening the door for Bryan to put themselves in the playoff mix.

District 25-6A: Hello Region IV!! Austin’s two districts are now in Region IV and for Round Rock ISD, Austin Vandegrift, Hutto and Cedar Park Vista Ridge this is good news, indeed. First round travel is now limited and although two teams in this loop have to deal with Lake Travis and Westlake, the flip side is if you can get out of bi-district, the bracket in Region IV is much more manageable in the middle rounds.

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Losers

Waco: For Lions head coach Kwame Cavil, this UIL Realignment has been a forgettable one. The Lions, who ended up in Class 6A by a mere four students, have gone 1-9 the past two seasons. A drop to 5A Division I certainly had the potential for more competitive days ahead, but when the class cutoffs were released in December it wasn’t meant to be. Adding insult to injury is an absolutely brutal alignment in District 11-6A that features Duncanville, DeSoto and Cedar Hill, along with always tricky Mansfield and Mansfield Lake Ridge AND power Waco Midway.

Little Elm: The Lobos are making their debut in Class 6A and it couldn’t have been much tougher as Little Elm joins District 5-6A with Allen, Denton Guyer, Prosper, McKinney, McKinney Boyd and fellow 5A move-up Denton Braswell. It’s going to be tough sledding and a major adjustment for Kendrick Brown’s squad in 2020.

San Antonio Area Teams: Most, including myself, thought that with the Rio Grande Valley losing a district in 6A, that the splitting of Northside ISD would result in the San Antonio area picking up a fourth district in Region IV. The math made sense as there are 26 schools in the immediate Bexar County area, which, if you add in San Marcos, Del Rio and Eagle Pass, puts you at 29 schools and the fourth district is justified. Instead, San Marcos was sent north into Austin, while Eagle Pass and Del Rio remained with Laredo, leaving the 210 with two districts of nine and one with eight along with possible area round matchups against the Austin area for 27 and 28-6A.

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Visit the UIL Realignment landing page - presented by James Hardie - for all of our coverage leading up to and after Feb. 3's festivities!

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