Katy and Jordan both earned a spot in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Class 6A Preseason Rankings, which came out in July. Katy eunded up just outside the top 10 and Jordan snuk in as one of the final teams.

Katy led the way for Katy ISD, coming in at No. 11 overall in the preseason rankings, one of the lower rankings the Tigers have been given in many years.

The Tigers come off a season where they went 10-2 and won district for the third year in the row, but were ousted in the second round of the playoffs by Cy-Fair, the Tigers earliest playoff exit since 2001.

Katy returns five starters on offense and three on defense, but have plenty of talent coming back. Offensively, Tremayne Hill leads the way coming back stronger and faster at running back in his junior year and the duo of Israel Olotu-Judah and Cade McCall are playmakers at wide receiver. Gunner Nelson showed some strong flashes at quarterback as a junior and is back to lead things as well. Defensively Katy returns named like Jeremiah Smith, Jacob Hilton and Adam Carter and there will be high expectations for the unit.

Jordan came in at No. 40 in Class 6A, being ranked in the preseason for the first time.

The Warriors come off the best season in their young history. The Warriors went 7-4 overall and 5-3 in district play, finishing fourth and clinching a playoff appearance for the first time in history, making the bi-district round before falling to Fort Bend Hightower, a team that four rounds deep in the playoffs.

Jordan returns some big players, including six starters on offense and seven on defense. The Warriors should have one of the most high powered offenses in the area, led by Andrew Marsh, one of the best receivers in the state, along with a duo of Chad Gasper and Tanner West in the backfield and Domenic Cangolosi stepping in at quarterback. The teams defense has talent all around the field as well, including Brayden Coffie, Zion Jones, Jimmy Phrisco Phillips, and Zach Taylor.

Katy was the fourth highest ranked Houston area team, behind North Shore, Summer Creek and Atascocita. In total there were 17 Houston area teams ranked in the preseason top 50.

DeSoto earned top honors, followed by Duncanville, North Shore, Westlake and North Crowley to round out the top five.

Following is the top 10 of the Dave Campbell Texas Football Class 6A Preseason Rankings

1. DeSoto
2. Duncanville
3. North Shore
4. Austin Westlake
5. North Crowley
6. Summer Creek
7. Southlake Carroll
8. Lake Travis
9. Humble Atascocita
10. Cibolo Steele