ETBLITZ POWER PICKS! | Week two of picks from the ETBlitz staff! (w/VIDEO FROM COLLEGE STATION – DO NOT MISS)

We won’t beat around the bush: two of our 12 area high school football teams play tonight: that’d be Tatum, taking on Daingerfield in Daingerfield, and Overton, facing archrival Carlisle at Carlisle.

Tatum, coached by Whitney Keeling, is playing for the second straight Thursday night. The Eagles took down state-ranked Winnsboro last Thursday after sitting around for 2 1/2 hours of a lightning delay, then played only a half, making it count. It wasn’t a beat-down; the final score was 29-14, and Winnsboro did get in their licks. But Tatum sent a message, and Cayden Tatum (yeah, same name as his school) put the exclamation point on it with a 100-plus-yard return of a missed field goal for a touchdown on the game’s final play.

Daingerfield is also playing for a second straight Thursday, after being knocked off by another ETBlitz-area team, Gladewater, in another lightning-delayed game last week, 21-13. The Tigers are hosts this time out, though, and only dropped one spot — from second in the state in the Dave Campbell’s Class 3A, Division II poll to third — after the loss to the Bears. Tatum is the road team this time out. The game kicks off at 7 p.m.

Overton, meanwhile, will try to get back on the right track after opening the season at home with a somewhat surprising 17-12 loss to Alba-Golden last Friday night. They’ll have to do it on the road at one of their most, well, hated rivals, Carlisle, tonight, a 7 p.m. kickoff there as well.

Here’s the complete schedule for the weekend in high school football and high school volleyball, as well as some games of local interest in college and NFL football; the NFL’s opening weekend begins tonight, with Whitehouse High School’s own Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in action against Baltimore. The Dallas Cowboys open on the road Sunday at Cleveland.

By the way, Kilgore College is open again; they’re back in action next Saturday at home against New Mexico Military Institute, and that’s KC’s Southwest Junior College Football Conference opener.

Here is the schedule; scroll down below for the picks grid, who we believe will win the games. And don’t get too upset if one of us picks against “your” team. It’s all in good fun.

ETBLITZ.COM POWER PICKS!

WEEK TWO – Thursday, Sept. 5-Monday, Sept. 9, 2024

HIGH SCHOOL GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Tatum (1-0) at Daingerfield (0-1; 7 p.m.)

Overton (0-1) at Carlisle (0-1; 7 p.m.)

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Heritage (0-0) at Leverett’s Chapel (1-0; six-man; 7 p.m., LCISD Stadium)

Harmony (0-1) at Sabine (1-0; 7 p.m., James Bamberg Stadium, Liberty City)

Gladewater (1-0) at New Diana (1-0; 7 p.m.)

White Oak (1-0) at Paul Pewitt (1-0; 7 p.m.)

Arp (1-0) at Garrison (1-0; 7:30 p.m.)

Gilmer (0-1) at Chapel Hill (1-0; 7:30 p.m.)

Liberty-Eylau (1-0) at Henderson (1-0; 7:30 p.m.)

Troup (0-1) at Edgewood (0-1; 7:30 p.m.)

Diboll (1-0) at West Rusk (0-1; 7:30 p.m., Bruce Bradshaw Stadium)

Whitehouse (1-0) at Kilgore (1-0; 7:30 p.m., R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium)

COLLEGE GAMES

FRIDAY’S GAMES

BYU at SMU, 6 p.m. ESPN2

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Texas at Michigan, 11 a.m., FOX

Arkansas at Oklahoma State, 11 a.m., ESPN

Baylor at Utah, 2:30 p.m., FOX

Texas Tech at Washington State, 9 p.m., FOX

NFL GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAME

Baltimore at Kansas City, 7:20 p.m., NBC

FRIDAY’S GAME

Green Bay at Philadelphia, 7:15 p.m., PEACOCK

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Houston at Indianapolis, noon, CBS

Dallas at Cleveland, 3:25 p.m., FOX

L.A. Rams at Detroit, 7:20 p.m., NBC

MONDAY’S GAME

New York Jets at San Francisco, 7 p.m.. ABC / ESPN

MITCH LUCAS	DENNIS JACOBS	JOE HALE	DERECK BORDERS	JENNA LUCAS	JACOB LUCAS	ASHTYN LUCAS	ALEX NABOR	CLAYTON FLETCHER	RONNIE SARTORS
Tatum	Tatum	Daingerfield	Tatum	Daingerfield	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum
Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton
LC	LC	Heritage	LC	LC	LC	LC	LC	LC	LC
Sabine	Harmony	Harmony	Sabine	Sabine	Sabine	Sabine	Sabine	Sabine	Sabine
Gladewater	Gladewater	New Diana	Gladewater	New Diana	Gladewater	Gladewater	Gladewater	Gladewater	Gladewater
White Oak	Paul Pewitt	Paul Pewitt	White Oak	Paul Pewitt	Paul Pewitt	White Oak	Paul Pewitt	Paul Pewitt	White Oak
Arp	Garrison	Garrison	Arp	Arp	Garrison	Garrison	Arp	Garrison	Garrison
Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	Gilmer	Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	Gilmer	Chapel Hill
Henderson	Henderson	L-E	Henderson	L-E	L-E	L-E	Henderson	Henderson	Henderson
Troup	Troup	Edgewood	Edgewood	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup
West Rusk	Diboll	West Rusk	West Rusk	Diboll	Diboll	Diboll	Diboll	West Rusk	West Rusk
Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore	Kilgore
SMU	SMU	SMU	SMU	SMU	SMU	BYU	SMU	SMU	SMU
Texas	Texas	Texas	Michigan	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas
Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Arkansas	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State
Utah	Baylor	Utah	Utah	Utah	Utah	Baylor	Baylor	Utah	Baylor
Wash. State	Wash. State	Wash. State	Wash. State	Tech	Wash. State	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech
Kansas City	Kansas City	Kansas City	Kansas City	Kansas City	Baltimore	Kansas City	Kansas City	Kansas City	Kansas City
Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Green Bay	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Green Bay
Houston	Indianapolis	Houston	Indianapolis	Houston	Houston	Houston	Houston	Houston	Houston
Dallas	Cleveland	Dallas	Cleveland	Dallas	Dallas	Dallas	Dallas	Dallas	Dallas
Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	L.A.	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit
SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF