Best Football Player Texas: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best Football Player Texas ballot is and who runs it

Best Football Player Texas is a statewide public-vote award run by Texas HS Football, the Texas high school football site at texashsfootball.com. The ballot asks a single question with obvious appeal to anyone who follows the sport in the state: who is the best football player in Texas right now? Because the organizer doubles as the publisher, the vote sits on the publisher's own domain rather than a standalone contest microsite, and the surrounding page is ordinary football editorial.

The coverage around the ballot is written by Brian DeMarco, and it sits inside a broader fan-vote lineup the site maintains. The same page introduces a partnership with XENITH, the equipment brand, supporting what the site calls its "first ever 'Player Of The Month' Award", handed out each month of the season to the best and most impactful players on offense and defense. The best-player ballot is the fan-facing extension of that coverage: where the monthly award is an editorial pick, this program hands the question to the audience.

The market is the whole state. There is no city or region attached to the program, and that statewide reach is the trait that distinguishes it from the weekly player ballots run by Texas newspapers and local outlets. The table below gathers the fixed points a supporter or a nominee's camp needs before doing anything else.

The dated history of the Texas best-player vote

Two editions of the program are on file: 2024 and 2025. Both are anchored to the same month, September, which is when the site's own coverage frames the question of who the best player in Texas is for that season. The 2025 page carries the XENITH partnership and the monthly award language, so the most recent confirmed cycle is also the one with the richest published context around it.

The September anchor is the only timing detail the ballot page gives. Texas HS Football leaves the opening day, the closing day, the list of divisions and any ceiling on votes off the ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. For a single-question ballot that silence matters less than it would on a multi-division slate, but it does mean a nominee's supporters cannot plan a push around a published deadline.

What the published history does support is recurrence. The program has run in back-to-back years on the same URL, under the same organizer, with the same September framing, which is the pattern of a fixture in the site's season rather than a one-off promotion. A supporter checking the page at the start of a new football season should expect either a live ballot or a pointer to the current cycle's voting page, and should treat whatever dates the live page prints as the operative ones for that year.

How a supporter votes on the Texas HS Football ballot today

The mechanic is as plain as public votes get. A supporter opens texashsfootball.com/best-football-player-texas, finds the voting element on the page, picks a player, and submits. No third-party platform stands between the supporter and the ballot, there is no separate contest domain, and no login step is described, because the vote lives inside the organizer's own football coverage.

Three practical points follow from that setup. First, the ballot shares a page with editorial content, so a supporter arriving from a social post may need to scroll past the article to reach the vote; sending people the direct URL removes that friction. Second, the page does not state whether one person may vote more than once, so a campaign that assumes a daily return is assuming something the organizer has not published. Third, because the vote sits on the organizer's own infrastructure, any change the site makes between cycles, from layout to eligibility, lands on the same page without notice.

The result side follows the same pattern. The site's coverage points to an announcement after the September window, when the best player in Texas for that cycle is named on the site rather than on a separate results platform. A supporter who wants to follow the outcome should bookmark the ballot page or the site's football section, since that is where the announcement is framed to appear.

How this ballot sits beside its Texas neighbours

Texas is unusually crowded with high school football fan votes, and this program's neighbours make its shape clear. The Austin American-Statesman Athlete of the Week runs a recurring weekly ballot tied to one metro paper's coverage area. The CenTex weekly player ballot does the same for the central Texas corridor, while the Dallas / North Texas weekly ballot and the DFW Star Local Media weekly athlete ballot split the Dallas / North Texas market between them. The East Texas weekly player ballot covers the eastern part of the state, and Dave Campbell's Texas Football runs a Quarterback of the Year fan vote with a position-specific twist.

Against that field, Best Football Player Texas is the broadest question on the list. It is statewide rather than metro, it asks about the best player rather than a weekly performer, and it does not restrict the answer to one position the way the Dave Campbell's quarterback ballot does. It is also the only one of the group hosted entirely on its organizer's own domain, where the weekly ballots are tied to newspaper and local-media brands.

For a nominee's camp, the practical difference is audience shape. A weekly metro ballot renews attention every seven days across a concentrated market; this one concentrates attention into a single September question with the whole state as the eligible answer, which makes early and broad mobilization matter more than steady weekly rhythm.

Strengthening support in the September statewide vote

Because this ballot is a single public vote on Texas HS Football's own page, support work is mostly about turnout to one URL during one month. The organizer has published no rule on outside help, vote exchanges, or automated voting for this program, so a campaign should keep its methods inside what any public poll plainly allows: real people, voting because a real community sent them there. That means the player's school community, alumni networks, and local football social groups are the assets that matter, aimed at the texashsfootball.com ballot early in September rather than late.

Two cautions follow from the page's silence. With no published per-supporter rule, a push that leans on repeated voting by the same people is betting on an unstated allowance. And with no published deadline, a campaign that waits for a final-week sprint may find the window already shut. Spread the ask across the month, verify the mechanics on the live page each cycle, and for a fuller treatment of methods, our guide to getting more votes online is the place to start.