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Texas HS Football Team Makes Playoffs With 0-10 Record

By Ed Carroll

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Houston Scarborough, a Texas HS football team with a 0-10 record and a 57-game losing streak, will be in the Texas state playoffs thanks to realignment.

A high school football team will be in the Texas state playoffs despite not having a win this season, and boasting a 57-game losing streak.

Houston Scarborough doesn’t own the longest losing record in Texas high school football, but thanks to some realignment by the governing board at the state, they will play in the playoffs despite a 0-10 record.

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Scarborough was placed in a five-team division earlier this year by the state’s agency for public high school athletics, with four teams in the division making the Texas HS football playoffs.

Another school in the division saw its athletics program scrapped (and was almost completely shut down), leaving Scarborough with an automatic bid to the playoffs, regardless of what happened in the season.

Making the playoffs in Texas isn’t a massive deal when you look at how many high school football teams do.

Texas has six classifications, with two divisions in each classification, for 12 total state champions, and nearly half of the high schools in the state make the playoffs (672 schools make the playoffs of approximately 1,300 total schools).

I’m sure some jerks will be up in arms over a winless team getting a chance in the playoffs, and integrity of high school football or some other nonsense along those lines, but hey, good for Houston Scarborough. The Texas lawmakers/public school system messed up, so blame them, not the winless high school football team trying to play a game.

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