The pool parties are dying out and school is starting up, which means fall is right around the corner. That means football -- NFL on Sundays, college football on Saturdays and high schools on Friday.
↵The Associated Press already has preseason polls out, and several Dallas-area schools are on it.
↵Checking in at No. 1 is Southlake Carroll, a perennial power that's sent both Chase Daniel and Greg McElroy to stardom in college and backup jobs in the NFL. They went 16-0 last year and have now won five of the last 10 5A state championships.
↵Dallas Skyline, which perennially churns out D1 prospects, is DISD's only representative in the poll, checking in at No. 3 overall. Euless Trinity, which benefits from a substantial Polynesian population due to its location near DFW, is at No. 6 while Desoto, one of the inner-ring suburbs, is at No. 7.
↵Allen, whose $60 million high school stadium you may have heard of, is right behind them at No. 8.
↵On the whole, if you follow college football, you'll recognize most of the schools in the Top 10 -- Lake Travis, Katy Cibolo Steele -- as producing high-level players throughout the Big 12. That's not a coincidence.