Top 25 Games of 2014

What better way to begin the season than having longtime East Texas rivals Longview and Lufkin open against one another?

It hasn't taken very long, but the rivalry between John Tyler and Whitehouse has rapidly developed into one of East Texas' very best over the last couple of seasons.

Texas High and Kilgore have not been strangers up to this point on the countdown of ETSN.fm's top 25 games of 2014. That has to do with their traditions and what the two squads will be bringing to Texarkana for the No. 13 game of 2014 on Sept. 19. It's a heavyweight fight at Tiger Stadium between two squads that appear to have the tools needed to make a nice postseason runs in their respective cla

Lufkin and Nacogdoches need no introduction to each other. It's no secret both schools are looking forward to settling a year's worth of talk on Sept. 26 in the two squads' District 16-5A opener. One of the most heated rivalries in the region, Lufkin at Nacogdoches is No...

When Longview makes the trip north to Texarkana's Tiger Stadium to take on Texas High on Oct. 17, it will be a matchup of 2013 district champions. And this year's encounter could ultimately decide which team's streak of league supremacy continues.

In what's become one of the highlights of the East Texas non-district schedule in recent years, the Lake Tyler rivalry between Whitehouse and Chapel Hill will take center stage on Sept. 5 at Tyler's TMF Rose Stadium.

Nacogdoches tailored a tough non-district schedule to supplement one of the roughest district slates in the State of Texas this season. The fun begins Aug. 29 with its season-opener against Kilgore, the 2013 Class 3A Division II state runner-up, at Dragon Stadium...

When it comes to football on the small-scale level in East Texas, you won't find too many programs more elite than Alto or Tenaha. Between the two of them, they have three state championships since 2006.

East Texas, or "Beast Texas" as it were, takes on the state of Louisiana the weekend of Sept. 12-13 at Shreveport's Independence Stadium in the annual Battle on the Border.

Carthage loves to do it big. Hosting Nacogdoches on Sept. 12 ought to draw a crowd when the two teams square off at one of the most modern stadiums in all of Texas high school football. This is a risky game for the Dragons. For starters, the Carthage Bulldogs are the defending Class 3A Division I state champions and return a few important pieces from that spectacular team...