16 Texas high school football teams with shots to win unbeaten titles

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As daunting a task as an undefeated season might appear at the outset, a look back over the past five seasons indicates that perfection happens more often than a casual observer might think.

Each season, the UIL crowns 12 Texas state champions spread over six classifications with two divisions in each classification.

Over the last five years, over half of the state champions have finished with undefeated records.

Last season, undefeated teams won nine of the 12 titles, tying with the 2011 season for the highest number of perfect records in the five-year sample.

Five state champions finished with unbeaten records in 2013, the fewest in the last five years.

Going into this weekend's 11-man state semifinal games, 16 schools (13 in 11-man, three in six-man) still have yet to lose a game. That number is guaranteed to drop to at least 14 by weekend's end because unbeaten teams will oppose each other in two games, Allen vs. The Woodlands in Class 6A Division I and Navarro vs. West Orange-Stark in Class 4A Division II.

Here is the rundown of the unbeaten teams by classification and division and its closest call so far:

CLASS 6A
Division I
Allen 14-0: 38-31 over Plano East in Week 10
The Woodlands 14-0: 23-20 at Cy-Fair (Cypress) in season opener
Division II
DeSoto 14-0: 49-45 over Abilene in third-round playoff

CLASS 5A
Division I
Foster (Richmond) 14-0: 34-28 at A&M Consolidated (College Station) in Week 2
Ryan (Denton) 14-0: 24-13 over Poteet (Mesquite) in Week 2
Division II
Aledo 14-0: 41-36 at Heritage (Colleyville) in season opener
College Station 14-0: 17-16 at Temple in Week 10 CLASS 4A
Division II
Navarro (Geronimo) 14-0: 14-6 at Refugio in Week 5
West Orange-Stark (Orange) 14-0: 45-21 over Kennedale in Week 6

CLASS 3A
Division I
Malakoff 14-0: 37-34 (OT) over Cameron Yoe (Cameron) in fourth-round playoff
Division II
Gunter 14-0: 27-21 at Pilot Point in Week 4

CLASS 2A
Division II
Bremond 14-0: 29-10 over Whitewright in season opener
Iraan 14-0: 24-21 over Mason in Week 4

CLASS 1A
Division I
Jonesboro 14-0: 40-32 over Lometa in first-round playoff
Division II
Balmorhea 14-0: 45-35 at Garden City in Week 4
Richland Springs 14-0: 92-62 over Crowell in fourth-round playoff1