Some football teams are traveling the distance of entire countries for Texas state championships

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Letter jackets will be folded into makeshift pillows and Gatorade bottles will be nestled into crevices so they don't roll to the back of the bus as football teams across the state prepare for hours-long drives to Houston for the UIL state championships this week.

At least for some.

While teams at Katy, North Shore and George Ranch high schools will "travel" less than 35 miles to get to NRG Stadium, at least eight of the 20 qualifying teams will drive more than 200 miles. One school from the Panhandle will travel about 600 miles one way.

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To put those distances in perspective, we've looked at how many miles each team will drive to NRG Stadium and compared it with trips across various countries. For example, Albany High School could travel the entire length of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the distance it will take the team to get to NRG.

Click the slideshow above to see the schools traveling the farthest in each game of the Texas state championships and the countries the could travel across in that distance.