Day 4 of Texas high school football state championships: Dallas beats Houston — PHOTOS
The UIL Texas high school football state championships have concluded.
See a roundup of results from the last day of action Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington as Dallas-area schools took on the Houston area:
Duncanville-North Shore VI goes to the Mustangs
For six out of the past eight seasons, Duncanville and Houston North Shore have played for the Class 6A Division I state championship.
From the first meeting in 2018 when North Shore won on a “Hail Mary” on the final play, the games have been special. Duncanville-North Shore VI was no different.
Defenses ruled the day, but North Shore receiver Jaylen Bocard hauled in a 44-yard scoring pass from quarterback Kaleb Maryland with 4:12 left in the third quarter to break a scoreless tie and the Mustangs made it stand up in a 10-7 win over Duncanville before 39,436 in attendance at AT&T Stadium.
It was the lowest-scoring 6A state final since the classification was started in 2014.
North Shore (14-2), No. 15 in the final Dave Campbell’s Class 6A state poll, followed up the Bocard touchdown by holding No. 8 Duncanville (12-2) to a three-and-out. The Mustangs then marched 48 yards in 11 plays and got a 27-yard Daniel Cruz field goal to make it 10-0 with 9:53 left in the game.
Bocard was the game’s Offensive Most Valuable Player, catching four passes for 79 yards.
Duncanville finally got some urgency on offense, scoring on its next possession on a 32-yard pass from wide receiver Trenton Yancey, who lined up in a Wildcat, to Zach Turner that cut the lead to 10-7 with 5:33 left.
The Panthers got the ball back with 2:47 left and drove from their own 30 to the North Shore 25. But on fourth-and-3, a pass in the flat from quarterback J’Coryon Rivers went off the fingertips of an open Leon Wood, turning the ball over on downs.
The teams played to a scoreless draw in the first half with both defenses taking center stage. Duncanville took the opening kick and drove from its own 25 to the North Shore 14, but an interception by Mustangs’ defensive back Tony Guillory killed the drive.
Guillory was named the Defensive MVP with the pick and a team-high 10 tackles, four solo.
Late in the first quarter the Panthers drove from their 20 to the North Shore 16, but lost the ball on downs on fourth-and-4. North Shore never made it past the Duncanville 37 before the intermission.
Neither team reached 300 yards of total offense as Duncanville managed 297 to North Shore’s 275.
North Shore won the first three meetings between the two teams in 2018, 2019 and 2021, but Duncanville had rebounded with wins the past two times the teams met in 2022 and 2023.
Duncanville defeated Converse Judson for its only other state title in 1998. North Shore added state titles in 2003 and 2015.
DeSoto blows out Houston King for 6A DII crown
DeSoto has reached the Class 6A Division II football state championship game four times. And four times the Eagles have come away champions.
DeSoto jumped out to a big lead in the first quarter and ran away from Houston King 55-27 on Saturday before 31,578 at AT&T Stadium.
DeSoto (13-3) got big play after big play, starting with running back SaRod Baker, who scored on a 2-yard run and then got loose on an electrifying 53-yard scamper on the Eagles’ first two drives. Ayden Marshall blocked a King punt and Bryson Briscoe picked it up at the 3 and ran it in to give DeSoto a 20-0 lead with 3:54 left in the first quarter.
DeSoto quarterback Legend Howell then got in on the fun, tossing a 65-yard scoring pass to Ethan Feaster with 12 seconds remaining in the first quarter. The teams started trading scores from that point with Howell throwing scoring passes of 70 yards to Courtly’on Jackson and 47 yards to Feaster.
Feaster, a five-star USC signee, earned Offensive Most Valuable Player honors with 10 catches for 167 yards, with 142 yards coming after the catch.
A 79-yard kickoff return by Panther wide receiver/return man Dillon Mitchell cut the DeSoto lead to 41-21. King (13-3), No. 16 in the state in Class 6A according to the final poll by Dave Campbell’s, then got a key stop on a fourth-down gamble by the Eagles at their own 38.
The Panthers, making their first appearance in a state championship game, were moving the ball to try to cut the lead to two scores, but an interception by senior safety Damarion Ross was returned 94 yards for a TD to up the lead to 48-21 with 44 seconds left in the half. The pick, in addition to four tackles, two solo, earned Ross the Defensive MVP award.
Howell capped the scoring with a 17-yard TD pass to Antron Edmundson with 4:31 left in the third quarter. Howell completed 19 of 25 passes for 280 yards.
Baker was incredible this season, especially in the playoffs. The junior scored 45 touchdowns this year with 21 coming in the playoffs and had 1,628 rushing yards in the postseason after a 24-carry, 125-yard performance in the title game.
Baker ran for 346 yards and four TDs in the Eagles’ 57-44 state semifinal victory over Southlake Carroll.
DeSoto has now won state titles in three of the past four seasons, just missing out last season to Southlake Carroll in the state semifinals. The Eagles’ first title came in 2016.
The total attendance for all 12 championship games this season was 191,815.
South Oak Cliff dominates Randle to win third state title
After three-point losses in the 2023 and 2024 state championship games, South Oak Cliff had another shot to get back on top of Texas high school football in its fifth consecutive state title game appearance.
This time, the Golden Bears capitalized and left no doubt, dominating Richmond Randle for an 35-19 victory in the Class 5A Division II state championship Saturday in front of 22,578 fans. SOC lost to Randle 38-35 in the 2024 title game.
SOC, No. 1 in the final Dave Campbell’s 5A DII state poll, won its third state title since 2021, the year the Golden Bears broke a championship drought for Dallas ISD that started in 1958.
SOC has gone 69-11 during the five-year stretch of dominant seasons that saw the team become one of eight schools in the UIL’s history to appear in five straight title games. The Golden Bears did while taking on a typical tough non-district slate; in 2025, SOC took down Class 6A powers North Shore and Longview.
To cap of its championship season, the Golden Bears held Randle to 3.6 yards per carry while tallying 257 rushing yards, establishing an advantage in the trenches on both sides.
SOC (15-1) set the tone with an early interception from Xavier Mayfield that set up a 7-yard touchdown strike from Jayden Williams to Torrin Teague. Behind a defense that laid several big hits, the Golden Bears got the ball back and capitalized with a 30-yard TD rush from Mikail Trotter.
Trotter, the Offensive Most Valuable Player, finished with 143 yards and three TDs in the contest, running all over the defense for Randle (15-1) with an average of 13 yards per carry.
No. 2 Randle was able to respond with a 100-yard kick return from Landen Williams-Callis, a junior five-star recruit, but Teague made it a three score game once again with a 38-yard TD rush.
SOC’s defense kept stuffing the Randle run, and Trotter notched the Golden Bears’ fourth TD of the contest in a highlight reel caliber 40-yard TD that saw him shed several tackles.
Randle was able to muster a field goal ahead of the half against SOC’s smothering defense that stopped the Lion offense four of five times facing third down in the first half. The Golden Bears set the tone in the trenches, averaging 11.2 yards per carry en route to building a 28-10 halftime lead.
Trotter continued the dominance in the third quarter with a breakaway 44 yard TD to give his team a 25 point lead. Facing a sizable SOC lead, Randle was able to add another field goal and a 7-yard scoring run by Williams-Callis with 2:37 left.
Williams-Callis paced Randle with 258 all-purpose yards, including 121 rushing on 32 carries.
South Oak Cliff linebacker Jamarion Phillips, a Baylor signee, earned Defensive MVP honors with 13 tackles, five solo, an interception and 2.5 tackles for a loss.
PHOTOS — South Oak Cliff trounces Richmond Randle
This story was originally published December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM.
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