Some of the area winners include teams in our preseason top-10 countdown, such as Westlake, LBJ, Dripping Spring and Lake Travis. But the competition should be tougher in the area playoffs next round.

Another week of Texas high school football is officially in the books, and there were plenty of standout performers across the Lone Star State. Here are SBLive/SI’s Texas Defensive Football Player of the Week nominees for Nov.

Texas high school football Class 4A area playoff sites and times from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com, distributed by The Associated Press: Canyon West Plains (8-3) vs Brownwood (6-4), 7 p.m. Friday at Snyder’s Tiger Stadium