Games of 2012

Sixty-three fourth-quarter points. Two successful onside kicks. A 22-point run in a span of less than 2 1/2 minutes.

After an up-and-down, 3-3 start to their first season without the late John Outlaw as head coach since 1995, few expected the Lufkin Panthers to reach the third round of the postseason.

Just like the No. 10 game on the ETSN.fm countdown of the best games of 2012, No. 3 featured district foes fighting for a regional championship.

Several people probably expected a fierce battle between Lufkin and A&M Consolidated when the two met on Sept. 28 in College Station for their District 14-5A openers.

You know it was a great season when this classic, heavyweight showdown for the District 16-4A championship on the regular season's final night only checks in at No. 5.

The two teams expected to decide the District 10-A Division I championship didn't disappoint when they met Nov. 2 in San Augustine County.

In the preseason, ETSN.fm named Gilmer and Kilgore's Nov. 9 meeting as the No. 1 game in East Texas in the 2012 season. It lived up to the hype.

Overtime was unkind to Palestine in 2012, especially in one of the Wildcats' biggest games of the year.

Neither team may have made the playoffs out of District 16-3A, a.k.a. the "District of Doom," but that didn't stop Bullard and Chapel Hill from putting on quite the show on Oct. 19 in Bullard. Bullard's 42-41, double-overtime win over defending state champion Chapel Hill checks in at No...

After Hughes Springs' 55-14 regular-season win over Elysian Fields, it was hard to imagine back on Oct. 26 that EF would even make it far enough in the playoffs for a rematch.