dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Since the season is rapidly approaching, and the high school football buzz is getting around I got a topic for y’all. We all talk about our schools best teams, winning state titles, etc. BUT Whose y’all’s schools best team that fell short of the state championship? a lot of y’all will disagree with me on this but speaking for my CC dogs I think the 2013 team was the best CC team that didint bring home the title. A truly once in a generation backfield with Mitchell and Johnson, and a monstrous duo at fullback that rushed for I don’t even know how many thousands of yards that season and consistently hung 50-60 points on teams with the vicious wing T attack… fell short to Waskom in the 4th round 24-22 on a botched 2 point conversion and plenty of horrible officiating to the benefit of the wildcats (it happened I was there that night in Carthage in the snowstorm). I believe that team goes on to beat Refugio the next week and give Cisco a run for their money in the state game. Anyways what you guys got? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWBears01 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2014 Gladewater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackflag79 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 21 minutes ago, GWBears01 said: 2014 Gladewater Ditto, and probably before your time, 1984 Gladewater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion7000 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2016 Henderson Lions . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattStepp Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 GJ Kinne's Gilmer team that got upset by L-E in bi-district 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, MattStepp said: GJ Kinne's Gilmer team that got upset by L-E in bi-district Still can’t hardly believe that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastTexasKnowItAll Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 5 minutes ago, dawgs.swarm said: Still can’t hardly believe that one Not that hard to believe when you look at the actual rosters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattStepp Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 7 minutes ago, EastTexasKnowItAll said: Not that hard to believe when you look at the actual rosters. Liberty-Eylau was loaded...crazy those two played in the first round 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeelee05 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) Lindale in 2020. They had a heck of a team that year led by Jordan Jenkins. Just couldn’t get past Argyle. Edited July 25, 2023 by Jakeelee05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jubilant Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2005 Gilmer that lost to Canton in the craziest game I ever saw and 2006 Gilmer team that lost to LE. We should have won 3 in a row. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBigBlue Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) My 88 Daingerfield team lost to this little 2A team that had moved up to 3A named Southlake Carroll. Coach Alexander told us we were his only team that could have played with the legendary 83 team. I took that as the greatest compliment. Edited July 25, 2023 by GoBigBlue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 As far as small school ball goes Crockett in 2015 was absolutely loaded. Case Robinson at QB along with lucky daniels and Aj Phillips at wideout and a host of other athletes. Probably the best Crockett team ever assembled in recent years. Probably could’ve beaten anybody but Franklin that season. And Newton but they had a path to get to state and avoid them in the playoffs… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBigBlue Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Pewitt's 2010 team is another one. If our QB hadn't of broken his ankle on the last play of the first half they would have won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobo97 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 '97 Lobos '04 Lobos '09 Lobos '19 Lobos '22 Lobos 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattStepp Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 I didnt see them but I bet the 1984 Daingerfield team is up there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) 2006 Groveton with lane Johnson was a stout team. Probably would have had a good run at it if they would’ve met anyone but the monstrous Alto yellowjackets that go round Edited July 25, 2023 by dawgs.swarm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 Talking small school (3a and under) here’s a few good ones from off the top of my head 97 CC 87 CC 00 CC 06 Groveton 14 Newton 16 Arp 08 Kirbyville 09 Kirbyville 15 Franklin 15 Crockett just a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackflag79 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, MattStepp said: GJ Kinne's Gilmer team that got upset by L-E in bi-district I wasn't really "shocked" that Gilmer lost that game. They were overrated simply because they were very porous defensively. I told a friend after the Daingerfield game that year (second game of the season, Gilmer won 62-42) that if anybody could hold Gilmer under 40 points we would likely lose. Sure enough... I'm not taking anything away from L-E that year because they were loaded as well. It was just that our defense never gelled. I would go out on a limb and say that if Gilmer would've focused a little more on the defensive side of the ball all those years, we would have more state titles than we already do. Just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackflag79 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 25 minutes ago, MattStepp said: I didnt see them but I bet the 1984 Daingerfield team is up there I think they were a little overconfident going into the title game that year, JMO. I was telling my brother while listening to that game on the radio, that if Daingerfield won it, they would lose in the title game, but if Gladewater won it, they would win state. We will never know about the latter, but that was, and still is, my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionpride08 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2018 Franklin lost to state champion Grandview in 3rd round 24-21. 2020 Franklin lost to Canadian 35-34 in championship game. I don't need to go into detail there. Waskom 2020 2021 Teague in 2014 2015 East Bernard 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centex1 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) Waskom 2020 and 21 was pretty solid. Franklin 2015 2020 Idalou 2015 East Bernard 2015 Sonora 2014 Wall 2013 were all pretty solid as well Edited July 25, 2023 by centex1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 16 minutes ago, centex1 said: Waskom 2020 and 21 was pretty solid. Franklin 2015 2020 Idalou 2015 East Bernard 2015 Sonora 2014 Wall 2013 were all pretty solid as well I forget about East Bernard in 15 that was a good one. They also had a good team in 13. That was a good year for 2a-1 ball lots of good teams and football was played that season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawgs.swarm Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 CC also had a solid squad in 2006. Mart handled us pretty good in the 4th round though… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujoforlife Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 John Tyler 09 10 11 12 14 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldognation1 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) For Cooper The 1989 12-0 Bam Morris led team that was dismantled by Rodney Thomas & Groveton @ Tyler Rose in 3rd rd 1996 Dawgs had size & speed but lost a nail biter against Grand Saline in the 2nd rd. Grand Saline lost in the next round to Groveton in a pretty close game… Groveton went on to play Iraan for state. That 96 team was probably Coach Joey Florence’s best Cooper team. 2000 Dawgs went 10-3 & lost to Celina in rd 3. Celina was in the middle of their big streak. Cooper was up 14-13 at half but Celina pulled away in the second half to win 41-14. The Dawgs were one of the few teams to even maybe put a little doubt in Celina during their run. 2004 Dawgs ran into eventual state champ Crawford in the 3rd round 2013 Dawgs that went 13-1 & lost in a ridiculous upset to Leonard. Would've like to have seen undefeated Cooper & Cisco in that semi-final game. Nobody was beating that 2013 Cisco team though. 2022 Dawgs that went 13-1 & bowed out to Timpson in the quarter-finals. Edited July 31, 2023 by Bulldognation1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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