Playoff Watch

An interactive UIL 2026 bracket explorer for every Texas high school football classification, 1A six-man through 6A.

Read this first Scenario tool, not official results or a forecast. Alignment 2026-28, rules verified Oct 31.

Every control you need to run the playoff picture yourself

The Roundup bracket tool is not a static PDF. Filter down to the exact classification, district or school you follow, then play the postseason forward week by week.

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Class & Division Filter

Isolate a single classification in one click so you are never scrolling past brackets you do not care about.

  • 1A six-man, Division I and II
  • 1A eleven-man brackets
  • 2A through 6A, DI / DII split
Filter brackets
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Region & District Search

Narrow the field to any district in the state and see exactly which region it feeds once seeding is locked.

  • All four regions, side by side
  • District 1 through 32 lookup
  • Bi-district pairings in view
Search a district
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Team Finder

Type any UIL football school and pull its full postseason identity, plus the path it has to walk to reach AT&T Stadium.

  • District, region and division
  • Current eligibility status
  • Jump straight to its bracket slot
Find a team
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Scenario Tools

Pick your projected winners and watch the bracket rebuild. Change your mind and every downstream matchup clears itself.

  • Auto-reset of later rounds
  • Saved locally in your browser
  • One-click reset to blank
Build a scenario

Picks are stored on your own device only. Nothing is published, nothing is shared, and clearing your browser data wipes the slate clean.

The bracket logic, spelled out before you touch it

Every pairing the explorer draws comes straight from UIL's published structure for each classification. No house rules, no invented tiebreaks. Here is exactly what the tool enforces.

6A FIELD

32 districts, four out of each

All 32 6A districts send their top four finishers to the postseason. The enrollment split then routes the two highest official enrollments in each district into Division I and the other two into Division II.

6A SEEDING

W and R are earned, not assigned

Within each division pair, the higher district finisher takes the W seed and the other takes R. The explorer never splits a district by rank before the district race is actually finished.

2A-5A

Sixteen districts per division

Classes 2A through 5A run 16 districts inside each predetermined division with four qualifiers apiece. Bi-district pairs lock in as W vs F, R vs T, T vs R, F vs W across neighboring districts.

1A / SIX-MAN

Two qualifiers, six-man kept separate

1A runs 16 districts in each of DI and DII with only the top two advancing and a straight W vs R bi-district. Six-man stays distinguished as its own structure, including 2A-enrolled schools that play six-man.

LATER ROUNDS

UIL's blank bracket ordering holds

Past bi-district, the explorer follows the fixed blank bracket order: adjacent winners advance into one another, and the semifinals resolve as Region I vs II and Region III vs IV.

TIEBREAKERS

Ties belong to the district

When teams finish level, the district's adopted tiebreaker and certification settles the seed. This tool does not invent a statewide tiebreak, it shows the scenarios and waits for the district to certify.

Scenarios shown here are projections built on these published rules. Final placement is whatever the district executive committee certifies.

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Texas high school football players watching from the sideline

Week 9 in a 6A district race. Two teams on this sideline are still playing for the fourth seed.

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Playoff spots per district
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Wins from a regional collision

The storylines the bracket tool will not tell you

The bracket builder shows you where teams land. This is where we explain why it matters: the seeding fights, the bubble spots, and the collision paths that decide how a region actually plays out in November.

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The fight for fourth

One bubble team can reshape an entire 6A bracket. When the final playoff spot goes to a Division I enrollment school instead of a Division II school, the split shifts, a top seed inherits a different first-round opponent, and half the region re-sorts behind it. We track the specific games that flip it.

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District seeding battles

Finishing first is not always the kinder road. Depending on how the neighboring district sorts out, the number two seed can draw a softer opener and a cleaner path to the third round. We lay out the crossover math week by week so you can see which seed a program should actually be chasing.

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Regional collision courses

Two wins away, the rivalries start reappearing. We flag the quarterfinal and regional-final matchups that would put old district opponents, or two unbeaten programs from the same county, on the same side of a bracket long before anyone is talking about it.

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How the week moves

Every Saturday morning the picture changes. Tiebreakers resolve, a forfeit reorders a standings table, and a bracket that looked settled on Thursday no longer is. Commentary here is rewritten against the new results, not left to go stale.

Coverage note: all analysis is built on verified UIL alignment and enrollment data, and on completed district results only. Nothing here is based on rumor, projected transfers, or unconfirmed scores. Pages are updated as district races resolve.

How the bracket math works, and where it stops.

Every matchup on this page follows UIL's published rules. When the rules run out, we say so instead of guessing.

Alignment and enrollment data current as of October 31. Nothing here is an unofficial prediction dressed up as a result.

01How are 6A divisions actually determined?

The top four finishers in each 6A district advance, then they are split into Division I and Division II by official UIL enrollment numbers, not by seed, record, or ranking. A district champion with a smaller enrollment can land in Division II while the fourth-place team from the same district plays Division I. We apply the enrollment cut exactly as UIL publishes it.

02What happens if district standings change?

Change a finish position and every downstream matchup recomputes from that point forward. Bi-district pairings, the Division I and Division II split, and the regional path all update together, so you are never looking at a half-stale bracket. Flip one team on a Friday night and watch the next three rounds reshuffle.

03Why are some bracket slots empty?

An empty slot means a district still has a live tie or an unresolved standing. Rather than fill it with a coin-flip guess, we leave it unassigned until the district certifies its finishers. A blank line is honest. A wrong name is not.Unassigned until certified

04Does this include TAPPS or SPC schools?

No. TAPPS and SPC run their own classification systems, their own playoff formats, and their own enrollment rules. Those programs are never mapped into UIL districts here, even when a school sits two miles from a 6A campus. This tool covers UIL member schools only.

05Where does the data come from?

District assignments and enrollment figures come straight from UIL's official 2026-28 realignment and the enrollment filings that drive it, current as of October 31. Weekly results are entered by hand against district reporting. If a filing is amended, the bracket is rebuilt on the amended numbers.

06Can I save my bracket picks?

Yes. Scenarios save locally in your own browser, so your what-if bracket is still there when you come back Saturday morning. Nothing is uploaded and no account is required. A reset button clears everything back to the certified standings whenever you want a clean slate.