3A District Champions 1980-2007

[WOS87]

I finally updated my 3A District Champion graphics to be color-coded like the 4A and 5A ones are.... here is the new, updated version with the 2007 Champs added in. This season Abilene Wylie notched their 9th consecutive #1 Playoff seed, tying the 3A record set by Vernon from 1989-1997.

I realize that there are many districts and many years in which there were 2, 3 or even 4 district co-champs, tri-champs, etc. officially proclaimed but this is a table of the team that got the top seed for each district going in to the playoffs, or in other words, this is a table of teams that would have qualified for the playoffs if the 1 team per district rule (pre-1982) was still in effect.

Please let me know if you see any obvious errors and I will correct them...

The color coding is indicative of the general location of the entire district for each particular year, not the individual team listed, thus for example, Madisonville could possibly be dark blue when part of a district including mainly CenTex area teams, in brown when in a district of primarily DFW area teams and light blue when in a district primarily of East Texas teams.

Region I-3A District Winners (1980-2007)

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Far West Texas - dark Red
Panhandle - Green
West Central Texas - Purple
North Central Texas/DFW area - Brown
Central Texas/Austin area - dark Blue

Region II-3A District Winners (1980-2007)

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North Central Texas/DFW area - Brown
Central Texas/Austin area - dark Blue
East Texas - light Blue
Southeast Texas/Greater Houston area - Light Red

Region III-3A District Winners (1980-2007)

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Region IV-3A District Winners (1980-2007)

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Southeast Texas/Greater Houston area - light Red
Central Texas/Austin area - dark Blue
South Texas/San Antonio-Corpus-Rio Grande Valley - Orange

[luvhoops34]

This would great if the Regional Editors incorporated each graphic on their pages!:D

[oldcrow]

Nice post

[WOS87]

A question for anyone up around the Vernon/Wichita Falls area...


I had a difficult time deciding in which portion of the state to place you guys when color coding the above graphics....


do you consider yourself North Texas? West Texas? Southern Panhandle? or something else?

:confused:

[kepdawg]

Originally posted by WOS87
A question for anyone up around the Vernon/Wichita Falls area...


I had a difficult time deciding in which portion of the state to place you guys when color coding the above graphics....


do you consider yourself North Texas? West Texas? Southern Panhandle? or something else?

:confused:

I've seen several heated discussions on multiple message boards over the years trying to figure out where west Texas starts! Abilene was usually in the middle of the discussions! That and where the mall is in Abilene!

I hope you have better luck getting an answer to your question!

[sicem74]

won 13 district championships in the past 27 years...not bad

[WOS87]

One thing I did notice compiling this is that 3A sure has changed a lot since 1980.... only 11 of the 32 district champs from 1980 are still aligned to the 3A Classification

14 are 2A

5 are now 4A

and

2 are now 5A

[WOS87]

The teams who have been the #1 seed from their district in the playoffs the most times since the shift in classifications in 1980 is as follows:

15 times
Crockett
Port Isabel
Cuero

14 times
Newton

13 times
Cameron Yoe
Littlefield
Abilene Wylie

12 times
Daingerfield

11 times
Forney
Sinton
Gilmer
Vernon

10 times
Ballinger
Commerce
Medina Valley
Perryton

9 times
Alvarado
Atlanta
Burnet
Childress
Sweeny
Tatum


Abilene Wylie has the longest active streak currently with 9 in a row (1999-2007) tying Vernon (1989-1997) for the most consecutively in 3A.

The statewide record prior to 1982 was Gregory-Portland's 12 consecutive district titles and playoff appearances from 1969-1980 and the record in the largest classification was 10 consecutive for Highland Park from 1941-1950. Since 1982 both Pilot Point (1979-1990) and Austin Westlake (1991-2002) have equalled Gregory-Portland's streak of 12 consecutive district titles but no one has yet to surpass it....

[Ranger Mom]

It is amazing to see the changes!!

In 4-3A, out of the 15 different district champs listed...only 5 are still in 3A.

Most have moved to 2A and two I have never heard of before; Boyd and Springtown!!

[kepdawg]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
It is amazing to see the changes!!

In 4-3A, out of the 15 different district champs listed...only 5 are still in 3A.

Most have moved to 2A and two I have never heard of before; Boyd and Springtown!!

You've never heard of Boyd or Springtown? :confused:

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by kepdawg
You've never heard of Boyd or Springtown? :confused:

Nope...where are they and what class are they now??

[kepdawg]

Boyd is 2A just south of Decatur and won the D1 championship over Newton in 2004

Springtown is 4A just southwest of Boyd

[SUPERMANN5107]

District 4-3A was a three way tie in 04 and 05. Snyder lost to Sweetwater, who lost to Wylie, who lost to Snyder.

[Rattlesnake_08]

Navasota and Rice Consol. also won D20 in 2004. It was a three way tie between Bellville, Navasota, and Rice Consol.

[kepdawg]

Are we going to have people post telling us every time there were co-champs, tri-champs, etc...?

[Rattlesnake_08]

Originally posted by kepdawg
Are we going to have people post telling us every time there were co-champs, tri-champs, etc...?

Probably.

[WOS87]

In response, I must admit that Sweetwater actually did win the tiebreaker in 2004 so Vernon still holds the record of 9 consecutive years as the top playoff seed....

However, Wylie did win the 3-way tiebreaker in 2005 and Bellville won the 3-way tiebreaker in 2004.

2004 District 20-3A

Bellville beat Rice by 28 pts
Rice beat Navasota by 36 pts
Navasota beat Bellville by 3 pts

Bellville +28 - 3 = +25 (although I'm sure there had to be a cap on points that was lower than 28 but it doesn't matter)
Rice +36 - 28 = +8
Navasota +3 - 36 = -33

Bellville is the 2004 District 20-3A Top Seed

2004 District 4-3A

Sweetwater beat Snyder by 10 pts
Snyder beat Wylie by 4 pts
Wylie beat Sweetwater by 6 pts

Sweetwater +10 - 6 = +4
Wylie +6 - 4 = +2
Snyder +4 - 10 = -6

Sweetwater should be the 2004 District 4-3A Top Seed.. my mistake

2005 District 4-3A

Wylie beat Sweetwater by 23 pts
Sweetwater beat Snyder by 11 pts
Snyder beat Wylie by 3 pts

Wylie +23 - 3 = +20
Snyder +3 - 11 = -8
Sweetwater +11 - 23 = -12

Wylie is the 2005 District 4-3A Top Seed

[Rattlesnake_08]

Originally posted by WOS87
In response, I must admit that Sweetwater actually did win the tiebreaker in 2004 so Vernon still holds the record of 9 consecutive years as the top playoff seed....

However, Wylie did win the 3-way tiebreaker in 2005 and Bellville won the 3-way tiebreaker in 2004.

2004 District 20-3A

Bellville beat Rice by 28 pts
Rice beat Navasota by 36 pts
Navasota beat Bellville by 3 pts

Bellville +28 - 3 = +25 (although I'm sure there had to be a cap on points that was lower than 28 but it doesn't matter)
Rice +36 - 28 = +8
Navasota +3 - 36 = -33

Bellville is the 2004 District 20-3A Top Seed

2004 District 4-3A

Sweetwater beat Snyder by 10 pts
Snyder beat Wylie by 4 pts
Wylie beat Sweetwater by 6 pts

Sweetwater +10 - 6 = +4
Wylie +6 - 4 = +2
Snyder +4 - 10 = -6

Sweetwater should be the 2004 District 4-3A Top Seed.. my mistake

2005 District 4-3A

Wylie beat Sweetwater by 23 pts
Sweetwater beat Snyder by 11 pts
Snyder beat Wylie by 3 pts

Wylie +23 - 3 = +20
Snyder +3 - 11 = -8
Sweetwater +11 - 23 = -12

Wylie is the 2005 District 4-3A Top Seed

So, does that mean niether Rice or Navasota has a share in the title?

[WOS87]

One thing that made it easier to figure out this year was that there was an outright undefeated district champion in 28 of the 31 districts which is a huge percentage relative to how it usually is...

there was one 2-way tie in 24-3A between Columbus and Sealy with Columbus winning the head-to-head

there was one 3-way tie in 8-3A between Bridgeport, Decatur and Argyle with Bridgeport winning the point differential

and there was one 4-way tie in 14-3A between Chapel Hill, Canton, Athens and Van with Chapel Hill and Canton having 2-1 records against the other 3. Athens and Van having 1-2 records against the other 3. Chapel Hill beat Canton head-to-head so Chapel Hill gets the top seed. Van lost to Athens, so Van gets the 4th place spot and has to sit out from the playoffs despite being an "official" district co-champ

[Rattlesnake_08]

Originally posted by Rattlesnake_08
So, does that mean niether Rice or Navasota has a share in the title?

???

[WOS87]

Originally posted by Rattlesnake_08
So, does that mean niether Rice or Navasota has a share in the title?

No, it means Rice, Navasota and Bellville are tri-champs for that season... however, they couldn't all play the runnerup from the neighboring district in the Bi-district round of the playoffs. They had to be seeded to determine which team went in to which playoff slot. As it mentions at the very beginning of the original post, I realize that there were many districts every year, in which there were co-champs, tri-champs, 4-way champs and even 5-way champs in rare cases. The only team listed above for each district is the team that got the #1 seed from their respective districts that year, OR, if it were prior to 1982, the team that would be the one and only playoff representative from the district.

[Rattlesnake_08]

Originally posted by WOS87
No, it means Rice, Navasota and Bellville are tri-champs for that season... however, they couldn't all play the runnerup from the neighboring district in the Bi-district round of the playoffs. They had to be seeded to determine which team went in to which playoff slot. As it mentions at the very beginning of the original post, I realize that there were many districts every year, in which there were co-champs, tri-champs, 4-way champs and even 5-way champs in rare cases. The only team listed above for each district is the team that got the #1 seed from their respective districts that year, OR, if it were prior to 1982, the team that would be the one and only playoff representative from the district.

Ok, kool.

[Rattlesnake_08]

Maybe there should be an actual disctrict championship game in districts with co-champs.

[TOPS1435]

I do not know if any other team has bounced around the districts as much as Gilmer.

Way back in 1981 when we went to the state final, we were District 16-3A, but now days that is for the totally northeastern teams, Liberty-Eylau, Atlanta, Texarkana Pleasant Grove, and acouple of other teams, some times Daingerfield, sometimes others.

Since Coach Traylor has been hired, Gilmer was 16-3A in 2000-01 when he got his first district title ('01). Predicted 4th in Dist 11-3A, he won district two years in a row.

Predicted 4th in 2004 in District 13-3A, he won state.

For the last two years we have been district 15-3A.

UIL keeps dividing the districts by running a line just north or east or south or west of Gilmer so we get a new bunch of "pals" and places to go for two years. I wonder where we will go after this year............. Ummmmmm

[sweetwater07]

i'm wondering if Wylie, Sweetwater, Snyder, Clyde and Brownwood are all gonna be in the same district..hmmm..talk about a super district

[orangeblood]

Hey in 2005 Cameron and Caldwell shared the district Championship Co-Champions

[WOS87]

Originally posted by kepdawg
Are we going to have people post telling us every time there were co-champs, tri-champs, etc...?

Looks like it...

[WOS87]

It took quite a while but I've expanded the District Champions chart back to the beginning of the 5 classification system in 1951 as I did for 4A and 5A a couple of years ago. Only Region I is completed and presentable but the remainder of the regions will be up soon.... Not one of the 8 district champs from 1951 are currently aligned to the 3rd largest classification.

Region I District Winners in the 3rd Largest Classification (1951-2007)


Region I-3A District Winners (1980-2007)/Region I-2A District Winners (1951-1979)

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http://idisk.mac.com/cboehme69-Public/district/2a1bdistchamps.gif

[zebrablue2]

nice post, THANKS..

[Big_Tymer]

Dont Forget about that Caldwell and Cameron Split.

[Ranger Mom]

WOW!! Lamesa was district champs in 2000 and 2001...how far they have fallen.

I remember when Greenwood/Lamesa was a huge rivalry game!!