March Madness had us thinking... which TXHSFB programs have experienced the best Cinderella playoff runs? Here are our picks presented in chronological order from earliest to latest.

1961 Donna Redskins

Donna is the only football program from the Rio Grande Valley to win a state championship, besting Quanah 28-21 in the 1961 Class 2A final. The 18-player squad wasn't the most talented team, but they were the most disciplined and conditioned, running a 100-yard sprint for every penalty yard the day after a game. The Donna championship's Cinderella status has grown the more years pass - a Valley team hasn't reached the championship game since 1963.

1968 Lubbock Estacado Matadors

Lubbock Estacado opened in 1967 as the city's first integrated school, then won the 1968 Class 3A State Championship over Refugio. Their biggest accomplishment, however, was uniting a community in the midst of turbulence within the country brought upon by Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Robert F. Kennedy's assassinations, coupled with Vietnam War protests. The Matadors shut out 10 of their 14 opponents that fall and outscored teams 552-32 in an undefeated season.

1982 Beaumont West Brook Bruins 

In a story that mirrors "Remember the Titans", the all-black Hebert and all-white Forest Park high schools merged into Beamont West Brook in 1982, and the football team won the Class 5A State Championship 21-10 over Hurst L.D. Bell that fall. The team united after a legendary preseason scrimmage when head coach Alex Durley had the former Hebert offense square off against the former Forest Park defense. After an hour, he brought the boys together and said, 'You ain't Hebert and you ain't Forest Park anymore. You're one team. You're West Brook now.'"

1984 Medina Valley Panthers

Jack Narrell, Medina Valley's head coach in 1984, said after his program's shocking upset over Daingerfield in the 1984 Class 3A State Championship that, "If we had played them 10 times, that year, we wouldn't have won but one of them. But this was the one." Daingerfield was a juggernaut in the early 80s. The 1983 Daingerfield Tigers are widely considered the greatest Texas high school football team of all time, and the 1985 team won a state championship itself. But the three-peat bid was already spoiled in 1984 by Medina Valley's shocking 21-13 win, aided by five Daingerfield turnovers.

1991 Killeen Kangaroos

Killeen's first and only state championship in school history came a couple months after a gunman killed 23 people in a Luby's, which was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States at the time. The Kangaroos had to overcome two regular season losses to sneak into the playoffs, then advanced after tying their first-round game against Austin Johnston because they had more penetrations inside the opponent's 20-yard line. Killeen beat Sugar Land Dulles in the Class 5A Division I state championship 14-10.

1992 Euless Trinity Trojans

The Trojans made their first state championship appearance in coach Ed Hickman's first season despite finishing the regular season 5-5. The magic ran out in the Class 5A Division I State Championship game when Euless Trinity lost 52-0 to Converse Judson.

2002 Midland Bulldogs

Midland reached the playoffs for the first time since 1951 and then stormed all the way to the Class 5A state semifinals before falling to Converse Judson 33-32 after Judson quarterback Dustin Quinney threw a 76-yard touchdown pass to Andre Williams with seven seconds remaining.

2003 North Crowley Panthers

Before 2003, North Crowley hadn't made the playoffs in any of its first six seasons as a varsity program. The Panthers were coming off three consecutive three-win seasons, and 2003 didn't look any more promising after a 1-4 start. After head coach Mike Papas called a closed door meeting, North Crowley rattled off 10 straight wins, capping the Cinderella run with a 20-6 victory over Bay City in the Class 4A Division I title game.