Juggernauts will collide in Week 2 of DFW’s 2020 high school football season
Week 2 of the 2020 high school football season is going to be epic in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Denton Ryan head coach Dave Henigan confirmed on Twitter Tuesday that Ryan will face Denton Guyer while Frisco Lone Star will travel to Aledo that week next season.
Lone Star coach Jeff Rayburn also confirmed his game on Twitter.
Guyer and Aledo were originally set to face off for the second straight season.
Guyer won at Aledo, 60-57, in last season’s opener.
“They hung 60 on us last year. I really wanted to play them again,” Aledo coach Tim Buchanan said.
The switch means Guyer and Ryan will play in a non-district football game for the first time. The game will be at C.H. Collins Complex in Denton with a day and time still to be determined.
According to Reece Waddell of the Denton Record Chronicle, the two schools haven’t met since 2015, when Guyer gave Ryan its last regular season loss, 52-7. Ryan has won 50 straight regular season games.
According to Waddell, Ryan and Lone Star had tentatively planned to play in Week 2 before the UIL realigned them into a nine-team district. Ryan was set to play Lancaster, but Lancaster backed out during UIL realignment day on Feb. 3.
Meanwhile, Aledo, which won its UIL 11-man state record ninth football championship, will host Lone Star. The one thing Buchanan wanted was a home game.
“We’ll find out a lot about our team when we play them,” Buchanan said. “That’s the one thing I wanted, to play at home. Lone Star is a good football program. We watched them beat Highland Park. Great players and Jeff Rayburn is a helluva football coach.”
Ryan defeated Lone Star in the 5A Division I state semifinals last season before falling in the state title game to Alvin Shadow Creek. Guyer finished 6A D2 state runner-up to Austin Westlake.
Aledo defeated Fort Bend Marshall, 45-42, in the 5A D2 title game for its eighth championship in 11 seasons.
