The five biggest games in DFW this week

These are the five DFW games this week with the most Division 1 talent on the field, and the players to watch in each one. We ranked every matchup by how many players on the two current rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, FBS or FCS, with total offers as the tiebreak. Across the five games, 111 players hold a Division 1 offer and 1579 Division 1 offers sit between them. Every figure here comes from our canonical database.

1. Southlake Carroll at North Crowley

Played in Fort Worth, TX. 27 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 421 Division 1 offers between them.

North Crowley players to watch:

  • Elijajuan Houston, ATH, class of 2027, 44 offers.
  • Damarion Mays, WR, class of 2028, 42 offers.

Southlake Carroll players to watch:

  • Brody Knowles, WR, class of 2027, 34 offers.
  • Tristan Dare, OL, class of 2027, 34 offers.

2. Cedar Hill at Duncanville

Played in Duncanville, TX. 27 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 376 Division 1 offers between them.

Duncanville players to watch:

  • Trenton Yancey, WR, class of 2027, 42 offers.
  • Kendrick Harris, WR, class of 2028, 34 offers.

Cedar Hill players to watch:

3. DeSoto at Allen

Played in Allen, TX. 21 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 279 Division 1 offers between them.

Allen players to watch:

  • Ty Snell, QB, class of 2029, 35 offers.
  • Dominic Butler, ATH, class of 2028, 25 offers.

DeSoto players to watch:

  • SaRod Baker, RB, class of 2027, 43 offers.
  • K'Adrian Redmond, DL, class of 2027, 23 offers.

4. Denton Guyer at Melissa

Played in Melissa, TX. 21 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 278 Division 1 offers between them.

Melissa players to watch:

  • Zane Rowe, DL, class of 2027, 49 offers.
  • Khyren Haywood, DL, class of 2027, 36 offers.

Denton Guyer players to watch:

  • Special Henry, ATH, class of 2027, 19 offers.
  • Jeremiah Tabor, RB, class of 2028, 15 offers.

5. Byron Nelson at Lewisville

Played in Lewisville, TX. 15 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 225 Division 1 offers between them.

Lewisville players to watch:

  • Taelyn Mayo, CB, class of 2027, 27 offers.
  • Landon Bogany, TE, class of 2027, 15 offers.

Byron Nelson players to watch:

  • William Green III, RB, class of 2029, 25 offers.
  • Nolan Hawkins, ATH, class of 2028, 13 offers.

How we picked these

Two top-10 DFW programs, South Oak Cliff and Frisco Lone Star, are not on the board because neither plays on 2026-09-04 or 2026-09-05. Three of the five games, Southlake Carroll at North Crowley, Denton Guyer at Melissa and Byron Nelson at Lewisville, were added from a visiting program's published schedule after no schedule row was on file. Three players were removed before the counts were set because their team history did not place them at the listed school for 2026, which is why Southlake Carroll at North Crowley leads Cedar Hill at Duncanville on the tiebreak at 27 players apiece.

The ranking counts only Division 1 offers, FBS or FCS. Each player's own figure above is their total verified offers on file, so a player's number can sit a notch above the Division 1 count when a school outside that group has also offered. Offer counts and roster attribution were pulled on 2026-09-04, the day this ran, from our own offer feed. Kickoff times are left off on purpose: no source we read published a time we could corroborate, so each game line prints the home city and state rather than an unverified time or an invented stadium. Home sites and dates come from each school's published schedule.

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