2013 Preseason Games of the Year

With the 2013 high school football season about to start, we've consolidated just about all of our preview material into this post.

If this year's clash between District 16-4A rivals John Tyler and Whitehouse is anything like last season's classic, it would be hard to argue with its preseason billing as game of the year in East Texas.

The 2012 District 16-3A championship game down to the final minute of the regular-season finale in a showdown at Gilmer's Buckeye Stadium.

One of the fiercest rivalries in East Texas resumes Sept. 20 when "the Pack" travels north to the land of the "Rockin' L."

One of the biggest non-district matchups of the 2013 East Texas football season happens Sept. 27 at Whitehouse's Wildcat Stadium.

Mesquite Horn and Longview have had some great battles over the last several years, but the 2013 installment of this budding rivalry could be one of the best yet.

Once upon a time, John Tyler and Lufkin shared the same district. Then, Lufkin was sent south to join a Houston-area district. After that, JT dropped in classification to 4A, creating further separation between the longtime rivals.

Two of East Texas' most successful small-school programs meet Sept. 13 in a cross-divisional clash of perennial Class A powerhouses.

District 8-2A Division I rivals New Boston and Daingerfield played two classics in 2012 and split the decisions.

The Woodlands traveled to Abe Martin Stadium last fall and pushed around the Lufkin Panthers, but a year stronger and wiser could have the Pack primed for payback.