The toughest Texas high school football schedules in 2019

In this edition of TXHSFB Inside The Numbers, we take a look at which Texas high school football teams faced the toughest challenge in 2019, including Texarkana Liberty-Eylau, Galena Park North Shore, and Katy.
Greg Tepper

Welcome to TXHSFB Inside the Numbers — where Dave Campbell's Texas Football take the data that makes up Texas high school football, and try to figure out what it means looking back and looking forward. Today: the toughest Texas high school football schedules in 2019.

By nature, coaches don't like excuses. If something happens, there is an expectation to own up to the consequences, to address shortcomings and to use the lessons to improve. That's one of the core principles behind coaching, and Texas high school football coaches — being leaders of young men — are particularly dedicated subscribers to this.

On counterbalance, though: there is the stark reality that teams have little control over the schedule they must face in a given year. So while Liberty-Eylau coach Klint King is unlikely to point to this article as an explanation behind his Leopards' winless season, it may serve instructive.

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