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Offenses exploding with 7-on-7 competition in Texas

By Jeff Miller
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Monday, July 13, 2009

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- In Texas, the adoption of 7-on-7 high school summer football in 1998 is considered one of the great liberating acts in the history of offensive football. The birthplace of the triple option has since begun churning out some of the country's top passers. The NFL's No. 1 Draft pick in 2009, Georgia's Matthew Stafford, played his high school ball at Highland Park (Dallas), soon after Texas' University Interscholastic League relaxed its rules prohibiting organized athletic ...

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