Sonny Dykes has a stack of bibles on a shelf behind his desk. Texas bibles, that is. Also known as Dave Campbell’s Texas Football yearbooks.
They are grassroots cultural touchstones, these thick annual magazines devoted to covering college and high school football in the state that loves college and high school football the most. DCTF has been published every year since 1960, and says it has a circulation of 100,000. When the yearbooks begin appearing in stores in June, previewing teams of all levels across the massive state, word spreads like a High Plains sandstorm.
“We always used to run to the grocery store and get it in high school,” Dykes says. “You always wanted to see, hey, did they mention me in the article?”
