<Li> On the playoff brackets it shows just the word "Baytown". There were two high schools in Baytown in 1988 (there are now three), the team in the playoffs was Baytown Lee . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Since 1982, the UIL Class 5A (now 6A) football playoffs have had six rounds (though a second, parallel playoff bracket of five rounds was added in 1990, later also expanded to six rounds in 2006), so while Permian played Dallas Carter in the fifth round, it was a semi-final and not a final . In the Texas playoffs, a team from North or Western Texas always plays a team from the Houston area or Southern Texas in the final, so the Carter vs Permian final was not possible . The real - life final featured Carter versus Converse Judson (which defeated Permian in the 1995 state championship). The Carter - Permian game was played in front of 10,000 people in a heavy downpour at The University of Texas at Austin's Memorial Stadium, not in front of 55,000 in the Astrodome in Houston . While the game in the movie was a high - scoring affair (34 - 28), the real score was 14 - 9 in favor of Carter . In real life, Permian held a 9 - 7 lead for most of the game and Carter made the dramatic fourth quarter comeback to win . On the last play of the game, Winchell threw the ball incomplete, rather than running it himself close to the goal line . </Li> <Li> The meeting between officials from Permian and Carter at the Midland airport occurred the Sunday prior to the game . Not shown in the movie was the Carter officials changing their minds about a home site from Texas Stadium in Irving to the Cotton Bowl within the Dallas city limits . Under UIL rules, if the schools cannot agree to a neutral site, each side picks a "home" site and a "neutral" site, and two coin tosses are conducted . The first was to determine whether a "home" or "neutral" site will be used, and the second to determine which team's site will be used . After a tense battle between the sides, they agreed to play the game at Austin . </Li> <Li> In the movie, Gaines suggested at first suggests San Antonio as a potential neutral site, which would have meant playing the game at Alamo Stadium, since the Alamodome did not open until 1993 . The other neutral site suggestion in the movie was College Station, presumably meaning Kyle Field at Texas A&M . </Li> <Li> The revocation of Carter's state championship following their use of an academically ineligible player was never mentioned, nor was the prolonged legal battle that Carter went through to enable them to play in the playoffs . Officially, the 1988 state champions were Converse Judson, which lost 31 - 14 in the final to Carter . Furthermore, Carter was portrayed in the movie as a stereotypical "inner city thug" team (likely due to the shocking series of armed robberies committed by several players after the season ended); Carter at the time was located in a middle - class African - American neighborhood and was not known for dirty play . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Since 1982, the UIL Class 5A (now 6A) football playoffs have had six rounds (though a second, parallel playoff bracket of five rounds was added in 1990, later also expanded to six rounds in 2006), so while Permian played Dallas Carter in the fifth round, it was a semi-final and not a final . In the Texas playoffs, a team from North or Western Texas always plays a team from the Houston area or Southern Texas in the final, so the Carter vs Permian final was not possible . The real - life final featured Carter versus Converse Judson (which defeated Permian in the 1995 state championship). The Carter - Permian game was played in front of 10,000 people in a heavy downpour at The University of Texas at Austin's Memorial Stadium, not in front of 55,000 in the Astrodome in Houston . While the game in the movie was a high - scoring affair (34 - 28), the real score was 14 - 9 in favor of Carter . In real life, Permian held a 9 - 7 lead for most of the game and Carter made the dramatic fourth quarter comeback to win . On the last play of the game, Winchell threw the ball incomplete, rather than running it himself close to the goal line . </Li> <Li> The meeting between officials from Permian and Carter at the Midland airport occurred the Sunday prior to the game . Not shown in the movie was the Carter officials changing their minds about a home site from Texas Stadium in Irving to the Cotton Bowl within the Dallas city limits . Under UIL rules, if the schools cannot agree to a neutral site, each side picks a "home" site and a "neutral" site, and two coin tosses are conducted . The first was to determine whether a "home" or "neutral" site will be used, and the second to determine which team's site will be used . After a tense battle between the sides, they agreed to play the game at Austin . </Li>

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