"We kept telling ourselves we're going back to state," said Houston wide receiver Andre Allen, who had three touchdown catches, including the go-ahead score, an 8-yard TD catch from Chandler Day, with 4:01 left. "We just kept repeating it throughout the playoffs. We were trying to speak that into existence. I guess it worked."

The USA TODAY Sports Network's high school writers break down every state semifinal game of the TSSAA football playoffs in Division I.