Highland Lakes football playoffs: Round 4
The Llano Yellowjackets are the final Highland Lakes area high school football team to be playing in the 2025 season. The Jackets take the field on Friday, Dec. 5 for a quarterfinals game against the Edna Cowboys.
Llano Yellowjackets neutral game Edna Cowboys
KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5
WHERE: Dub Farris Stadium, 8400 N. Loop 1604 West in San Antonio
LAST GAME: Llano 31, Goliad 7
Llano (12-1 overall, 5-0 district) has a storied game against Edna (10-3 overall, 6-1 district) on Friday night for the quarterfinals of the 2025 University Interscholastic League Football Conference 3A D1 Championship.
This will be the third time that the Jackets have taken on the Cowboys in the fourth round of the playoffs. On the previous two occasions, in 2022 and 2024, Edna came away with the win with scores of 40-21 and 41-14 respectively.
Llano head football Coach Matt Green is confident in his team.
“These kids want to leave their mark on the program,” Green told DailyTrib. “They want to be remembered as one of, if not the best Llano teams in the school’s history. This team can do that.”
Llano has only made it to the quarter finals or farther three times in the school’s 115 year history according to Green. Once, in 2020, they made it to the semi finals, and the others were in 2022 and 2024 when they were stopped by Edna.
“You talk about a goal? Beat Edna,” he said. “It pains me to say it, but they have just been better than us in the past. This is absolutely a winnable game, we just have to play our best brand of football.”
The location for the game was changed on Wednesday, Dec. 3 due to lighting issues at the previous venue. The accurate location for the Dec. 5 game is Dub Farris Stadium, as listed in the breakdown. Tickets purchased at the previous location will be honored at the new one.