2015 Dragon Football Captains Montana Murphy, Lucas Tribble, Lil' Jordan Humphrey and Obi Eboh meet with Austin Westlake before the kickoff of the 2015 season opener. Photo by John Gutierrez.
Southlake Carroll is one of the top high school football teams in Texas, after coming in at No. 8 in "USA Today’s" Preseason Rankings.
USA Today divided the country into regions to rank high school football teams: Florida, Texas, California, Southeast, Midwest, East, Plains and West.
Duncanville and Denton Guyer were also ranked within the top 10. Duncanville beat Southlake Carroll in the playoffs last season and the Dragons are set to face Denton Guyer team this season on October 16 at home. Other North Texas high school football teams mentioned include DeSoto, Allen and Denton Ryan.