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Texas high school football scores: Austin-area UIL live updates from Week 1
Finally, it’s Week 1 of the Texas high school football season. Things kicked off around Central Texas with a pair of thrillers in the Austin area — Anderson’s 57-40 win over McCallum in the Taco Shack Bowl and Weiss’ 42-41 double-overtime win over McNeil. But tonight is the first Friday night of the season and there’s a full slate of games.
Follow this thread tonight for updates across Central Texas:
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Thrall 29, Thorndale 22
Lake Travis 17, Arlington Martin 10
Georgetown 47, Victoria East 0
Cedar Park 17, Harker Heights 7
Vandegrift 31, Dripping Springs 7
Glenn 7, Medina Valley 0
Rouse 36, Connally 3
Pflugerville 33, Leander 14
Hondo 29, Blanco 14
Lago Vista 14, Burnet 12
Victoria West 14, Lockhart 0
Johnson City 14, Granger 14
Round Rock Concordia 24, Leander Founders Classical 22
… and some 2nd quarter scores:
Cibolo Steele 35, Liberty Hill 14
Giddings 14, Jarrell 0
Marble Falls 29 Crockett 0
Travis 7, Akins 0
∙ Georgetown’s Jett Walker scored from 47 yards out to increase the Eagles’ lead over Victoria East to 47-0. Georgetown has scored on all seven possessions. Walker has rushed for 102 yards in the opening half on just seven carries.
∙ New Braunfels Canyon and Austin High are level at 14-14.
∙ They have reached the half at Vandegrift, as the Vipers hold a 24-point edge over Dripping Springs 31-7.
∙ Cedar Park leads Harker Heights 14-7 in the first.
From Jay Plotkin, who’s covering the Lake Travis-Arlington Martin game tonight. First-half update:
Walker Moore’s interception late in the second quarter kept the Cavs leading Martin at the half. Moore’s interception of Brooks Brigance and 80-yard return set up a short Braydon Doane field goal to give the Cavaliers a 17-10 lead. Martin’s Brigance kept the Lake Travis defense on its heels early, but the Cavaliers’ secondary found its footing in the second quarter. After starting out 4-of-5 for 61 yards and a touchdown, Brigance finished the half completing just one of his final six throws for no yards and and interception.
Vann Hopping has rushed for both Lake Travis touchdowns.
∙ Marble Falls has raced out to a 14-0 lead over Crockett in the first.
∙ Regents leads Lorena 9-0 in the second stanza.
∙ Austin High has taken a 14-7 lead over New Braunfels Canyon in the second quarter.
∙ Travis is up 7-0 over Akins in the second.
∙ Lake Travis answers an Arlington Martin touchdown with a touchdown of its own as Vann Hopping ran 19 yards up the middle for his second score of the night as the Cavs lead Martin 14-10.
∙ LBJ now leads San Antonio Houston 27-0 with 2:16 in the first.
∙ Hays leads Elgin 10-0 in the first.
∙ At Vandegrift, the Vipers have expanded their lead over Dripping Springs to 28-7 in the second quarter.
∙ Lago Vista is up 14-6 over Burnet in the first.
More Austin-area updates:
∙ Playing its first game as a Class 4A squad after two years in Class 5A, LBJ leads San Antonio Houston 14-0.
∙ The opening quarter up in Georgetown can’t end soon enough for Victoria East. There’s still 55 seconds to play and the Eagles have expanded their lead to 37 points after Max Muniz’s improbable touchdown catch off teammate Xavier Warren’s back at the goal line. (The Eagles had been called for an illegal formation penalty on their 41-yard field goal try on the previous snap, which forced them to go for it on fourth down.)
∙ Austin High and New Braunfels Canyon are tied 7-7 in the first.
∙ Rouse leads Connally 29-0 in the second quarter, while Glenn is leading Medina Valley 7-0 also in the second.
∙ Rouse has jumped out to a 15-0 second quarter lead over Connally.
∙ Victoria West leads Lockhart 7-0 in the second quarter.
∙ Johnson City leads Granger 7-0 in the first.
∙ In a rivalry game, Thorndale has jumped out to a 15-8 lead over Thrall.
∙ Lago Vista strikes first as the Vikings lead Burnet 7-0 in the first.
∙ Cameron Yoe is up 7-0 over La Grange.
∙ Vandegrift has taken a 14-0 lead over Dripping Springs. That game’s at Vandegrift.
∙ In Arlington, Tristan Naifeh’s 38-yard field goal has pulled Arlington Martin to within 7-3 of Lake Travis toward the end of the opening quarter.
∙ Georgetown is rolling Victoria East 30-10, having forced three turnovers in the first three minutes.
∙ In private schools, New Braunfels Christian leads Austin achieve 7-0 in the opening stanza.
Remember when Georgetown was up 8-0. We’re still not even through the first quarter and the Eagles are up 22-0 over Victoria East. Georgetown has scored three touchdowns, and after the first two touchdowns the Eagles then recovered fumbles on the kickoffs.
How bad of a start is this for Victoria East? There’s 2:12 left in the opening quarter and the Titans have yet to run an offensive play.
Lake Travis punched in its opening possession, a 1-yard TD run by Vann Hopping. Chaston Ditta was 4 of 5 on the drive, completing short passes on the 47-yard drive. With 8:34 left in the 1st quarter, it’s Lake Travis 7, Arlington Martin 0.
Facing a third-and-21 on Georgetown’s own 29-yard line, Xavier Warren electrified the home crowd as he took a pass from Caleb McDougall 71 yards for a touchdown against Victoria East. With 10:56 left in the first quarter, Georgetown is up 8-0.
For the third consecutive season, Lake Travis will be opening the season with Arlington Martin. The Cavaliers will be looking to get their passing attack back on track after struggling throwing the ball last season (or at least struggled by Lake Travis standards).
The Cavs are coming off an 11-3 season in 2023 that included an upset over an undefeated Vandegrift squad in the area round of the Class 6A playoffs before bowing out of the postseason with a 21-14 loss to Westlake in the state quarterfinals. Here’s our preseason team glance, including three big questions the Cavs are facing this season.
Staff-wise, we all picked the Cavs this week.
Where Austin-area/Central Texas teams are ranked in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine preseason state rankings:
Class 6A: No. 5 Westlake, No. 8 Lake Travis, No. 24 Vandegrift
Class 5A DI: No. 11 Weiss, No. 18 Cedar Park
Class 5A DII: No. 8 Liberty Hill
Class 4A DI: No. 8 LBJ, No. 17 Lampasas
Class 4A DII: No. 5 Wimberley, No. 25 Lago Vista
Class 3A DII: No. 12 Blanco
Class 2A DII: No. 18 Granger
Anderson tops McCallum again: In a game that saw Anderson QB Max Gerlich throw for 7 TDs and run for another, Anderson outlasted McCallum 57-50 in the annual Taco Shack Bowl at House Park. Gerlich threw for 308 yards and added 138 on the ground, including the TD as the Trojans took their third straight Taco Shack win. We were there; here’s Rick Cantu’s game story.
Weiss survives McNeil without Brown: Playing without New Mexico State QB commit Jax Brown, Weiss edged McNeil 42-41 in overtime. Brown was lost for the season after suffering a season-ending injury in last week’s scrimmage against Waco University.
A shutout for the Hawks: Hendrickson posted its first shutout since 2019, as the Hawks clipped Belton 14-0.
Eight in a row: Stony Point opened its season with its eighth consecutive season opening win as the Tigers edged East View 28-22.
Westlake’s opening statement: Westlake, our No. 1-ranked preseason area team, trailed Prosper 14-13 at halftime before reeling off 22 unanswered points in the second half as the Chaps notched their 43rd consecutive regular-season win, 35-14. Here’s our takeaways from the game.
Tonight’s Austin-area high school football schedule
These are all nondistrict matchups tonight.
The best game around tonight: Dripping Springs at Vandegrift, 7 p.m. These are both top-10 area preseason teams heading into the season, and both have hopes and expectations of a district title and playoff run. The Vipers probably have the edge, but this should be a good one.
The second-best matchup: Liberty Hill at Cibolo Steele, 7:30 p.m. Too bad this one’s not at Liberty Hill. Both programs are traditional playoff powers, so this is a great first-week pairing. It’ll give us the first look at the Panthers’ rebuilt running game.
Other games on the schedule. We’ll publish finals as we get them later:
Lake Travis at Arlington Martin, 7
Victoria East at Georgetown, 7
Leander at Pflugerville, 7
Bowie at Manor, 7:30
San Marcos at Hutto, 7
New Braunfels Canyon at Austin High, 7:30
Killeen Shoemaker at Round Rock, 7:30
Waco Midway at Westwood, 7
Hays at Elgin, 7:30
Killeen Chaparral at Lehman, 7:30
Lockhart at Victoria West, 7
Vista Ridge at Killeen, 7
Johnson at Cedar Ridge, 7:30
Travis at Akins, 7:30
LBJ at San Antonio Houston, 7
Bastrop at Alvin, 7
Connally at Rouse, 7
Crockett at Marble Falls, 7:30
Navarro at Eastside, 7:30
Northeast at St. Andrew’s, 7:30
LASA at Manor New Tech, 7:30
Cedar Creek at Del Valle, 7:30
Cedar Park at Harker Heights, 7:30
Glenn at Medina Valley, 7
Gatesville at Taylor, 7:30
Canyon Lake at Wimberley, 7:30
Giddings at Jarrell, 7:30
Smithville at Rockdale, 7:30
Llano at Lytle, 7
Fredericksburg at Lampasas, 7:30
Troy at Salado, 7:30
Thorndale at Thrall, 7
Nixon-Smiley at Luling, 7:30
Florence at Rosebud-Lott, 7:30
Central Texas scores from Thursday night
Westlake 35, Prosper 14
Anderson 57, McCallum 40
Weiss 42, McNeil 41 (2 OT)
Stony Point 28, East View 22
Hendrickson 14, Belton 0
TEXAS — According to Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm, the top three most affordable cities for renters in the country are in Texas. The firm released its study in 2025, which also lists the median incomes needed to afford the average rent.
Renters living in the Sawyer Heights neighborhood near downtown Houston say apartments in that area come with a hefty price tag.
“It’s not cheap to live in this city, especially with income the way it is,” said Evan Camp, a renter.
Jacinto Cepeda shares his sentiment, adding you get what you pay for.
“It’s just increasing in price if you want to live somewhere nicer or a little bit safer, I would say, it’s definitely on the pricier side,” Cepeda said.
However, Redfin’s report ranking the top 10 most affordable metros for renters across the country shows renters in the Houston metro area may be better off compared to other Texans. Austin, Houston and Dallas took the top three spots, respectively.
The study analyzes Census Bureau data on median incomes and average rent costs, based on the affordability criteria of renters spending no more than 30% of their income on rent.
“In the most recent American Community Survey, we found that, for the first time, the majority of renters in Harris County in Houston are cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent,” said Dr. Stephen Sherman, an associate director of research at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
Sherman says while some may consider Houston rent as more reasonable than New York City and Los Angeles, Harris County incomes have not kept up with inflation.
“When you start to look at how that compares to people’s incomes, how high eviction rates are, the quality of multifamily building here, you start to see that that cheery story has some cracks and fissures,” he said.
The Redfin study shows the typical U.S. renter earns nearly $9,000 less than the income needed to afford the median apartment. It shows a median rent in the Houston metro of $1,239, meaning the affordability required for annual income needed is closer to $50,000. As of December 2024, Houston’s median renter income was roughly $58,000, which was nearly $9,000 more than needed to cover the rent. Sherman says that means nearly half of renters don’t make enough.
“Apartment rents and home prices, as well, have stabilized, but when you look at incomes, especially after adjusting for inflation, they’ve actually gone down,” said Sherman, adding this is while expenses like groceries and gas have gone up. “Everything is a trade-off. You can find affordable places to live in Houston, but it might be in an older building in dire need of repairs.”
Cepeda said walkability is one thing he appreciates about the Heights area.
“It’s just a matter of where you’re willing to live where you’re willing to live, and how you’re willing to live is the most important thing,” he said.
An outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness that can cause explosive diarrhea, has been confirmed in Texas, prompting health officials to urge extra precautions when handling fresh produce.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed 48 cases of cyclosporiasis across 10 Texas counties. State health officials say there have been no deaths linked to the outbreak so far.
There are no reported cases in Southeast Texas at this time, and Port Arthur officials say they have not received any reported cases from area hospitals or health care providers. Still, health officials say now is the time to take extra precautions.
Judith Smith, Port Arthur’s director of health services, said cyclosporiasis is caused by “a microscopic parasite that is usually found in contaminated food and contaminated water.”
Smith said contamination typically stems from floodwater or sewage water when produce is harvested, allowing parasites to transfer to produce long before it reaches consumers.
“I have not heard of an outbreak like this. It’s been a while. It might have been 2023, 2024, and so, you know, and of course, Texas is not immune,” Smith said.
Smith said foods that are eaten raw can pose a higher risk. “Those foods that are not cooked are the ones that really make you more at risk,” she said.
Health officials recommend washing raw produce, including lettuce, cilantro, raspberries and basil. They also recommend cleaning cutting boards, refrigerating fresh goods and throwing away any remaining produce after experiencing symptoms.
Symptoms can include watery diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and a low-grade fever. “Those individuals that may have that watery diarrhea or really just more than two to three days should seek medical attention,” Smith said.
Testing can confirm the parasite, and early treatment can help prevent more serious complications, especially for children and elderly relatives. Health care experts recommend contacting a health care provider as soon as possible if persistent stomach cramps and other symptoms develop after eating fresh produce.
The Texas Longhorns are less than two months away from starting their regular season slate of the 2026 schedule.
Just like last season, the Longhorns have been given unrealistic expectations by some, but will look to avoid the slow start that had everyone counting them out in September. On paper, the Longhorns should be a lot better than they were last season.
A national championship run should be on the table for head coach Steve Sarkisian and his team. One of the reasons that is a possibility is due to the Longhorns have something in common with previous national championship winners.
Legacy Year
Last season, the college football world was enamored by the Indiana Hoosiers. A program that no one saw ever winning the national championship, was hoisting the trophy at the end of the season.
Now, the Hoosiers had a talented roster from top to bottom. But the play of starting quarterback Fernando Mendoza was the leading factor in this team reaching the mountaintop.
Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning has the chance to make that same impression this season. After his first full season as the starting quarterback in Austin last year, there is a growing confidence that Manning is going to be on another level in 2026.
Last season, Manning threw for 3,163 yards and 26 touchdown passes. If you were to compare those numbers to Mendoza’s last season, the Hoosiers quarterback threw for 3,535 yards and an impressive 41 touchdown passes.
Those numbers make it clear that Manning will have to elevate his performance this season. With a revamped offensive line, the Longhorns quarterback may have the time to rival the numbers of Mendoza from this past season.
But another key piece to the Longhorns’ 2026 roster is a massive wide receiver addition.
It’s going to take the whole village, and Coach Sarkisian went out and got one of the most talented wide receivers in the transfer portal with Cam Coleman.
Coleman had two solid years with the Auburn Tigers and now will look to be the deep field threat for Manning and the Longhorns. The junior receiver’s addition to the roster could take this offensive unit to being one of the top units in the country.
All championship teams have a quarterback who could lead them to victory. Manning could very well be the next elite quarterback to hold a national championship trophy.
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