Coin flips at a catfish restaurant: How 3 Oklahoma football teams learned playoff fates
If you're a fan of high school football movies, then you know the famous scene from “Friday Night Lights,” when the coaches meet at a gas station and flip coins to decide a district tie breaker. Like a scene ripped straight from that movie, a similar situation happened Friday night, Nov. 6, in Oklahoma — not at a gas station, but at a catfish restaurant. The meeting occurred at the Catfish Round Up, located off Interstate 40 at Exit 200 in Seminole, Oklahoma. A three-way district tie between Gore, Liberty and Central was the cause of the meeting. According to OSSAA, its tiebreakers involving district records, head-to-head results and point differentials was not enough to determine a sure-fire third-place finishers in the district Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association Associate Director Trinity Johnson met with the head coaches from each school at midnight following Friday night's games for the fateful coin flip 🚨THE COINS HAVE SPOKEN🚨 Liberty and Central (Sallisaw) advance. Gore is the odd man out. #OKPreps pic.twitter.com/MSFOiyB7oT — TJ Eckert (@TJEckertKJRH) November 7, 2026 Each of the teams finished the year with a 6-4 record and 4-3 record in district play. They swapped wins over each other with Central
