After an exciting week of regional semifinal action, only 12 Houston-area high school football teams remain alive in the UIL playoffs. Here’s some notes and observations from the third round.

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Westlake and Lake Travis will clash in the 6A Division I Region IV final at 7 p.m. Friday from Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex, highlighting Austin-area teams still vying for a spot in the state championships.

Now Keeler, who brings a career mark of 271-112-1 to North Broad, will become Temple’s 18th football coach after going 97-39 in 10 seasons at Sam Houston State. He will lead an Owls program that has finished 3-9 in each of the last four seasons, and will succeed Stan Drayton, who was fired on Nov. 17. Temple’s last winning season came in 2019.

Sam Houston head football coach K.C. Keeler is expected to become the next head coach at Temple, as first reported by The Athletic.

Temple is expected to hire Sam Houston coach K.C. Keeler to fill its open position, sources tell CBS Sports and 247Sports. Keeler, 65, is a two-time national championship-winning coach at the FCS level and the only coach in FCS history to win a national title at two different stops,