High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 10
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | LW |
| 1. St. Xavier (8-1) | 92.8 | 1 |
| 2. Frederick Douglass (9-0) | 89.7 | 2 |
| 3. Lexington Catholic (8-1) | 88.4 | 3 |
| 4. Christian Academy-Louisville (9-0) | 87.9 | 4 |
| 5. Highlands (8-2) | 87.7 | 8 |
| 6. Corbin (9-0) | 87.3 | 7 |
| 7. Bowling Green (8-1) | 87.2 | 6 |
| 8. Boyle County (8-1) | 86.8 | 10 |
| 9. Male (5-4) | 86.7 | 9 |
| 10. Trinity (6-4) | 84.9 | 13 |
| 11. Woodford County (9-0) | 84.7 | 14 |
| 12. Pikeville (7-2) | 84.5 | 17 |
| 12. Covington Catholic (7-2) | 84.5 | 16 |
| 14. Beechwood (8-1) | 84.4 | 15 |
| 14. Scott County (8-1) | 84.4 | 19 |
| 16. Bullitt East (8-1) | 83.8 | t23 |
| 17. Ballard (7-2) | 83.4 | 11 |
| 18. Henderson County (8-1) | 83.1 | 18 |
| 19. Central Hardin (8-1) | 82.8 | 20 |
| 20. Manual (8-1) | 82.3 | 5 |
| 20. Bryan Station (6-3) | 82.3 | 22 |
| 22. Southwestern (9-0) | 82.2 | 21 |
| 23. Owensboro (7-2) | 80.9 | 25 |
| 24. South Warren (5-4) | 80.3 | 12 |
| 25. Simon Kenton (6-3) | 80.2 | NR |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | |
| 1. Pikeville | 84.5 |
| 2. Raceland | 76.0 |
| 3. Bethlehem | 58.2 |
| 4. Newport Catholic | 56.4 |
| 5. Hazard | 55.7 |
| 6. Paintsville | 48.2 |
| 7. Kentucky Country Day | 48.0 |
| 8. Louisville Holy Cross | 47.9 |
| 9. Crittenden County | 45.6 |
| 10. Sayre | 44.8 |
| 11. Williamsburg | 43.3 |
| 12. Campbellsville | 42.7 |
| 13. Bishop Brossart | 36.7 |
| 14. Pineville | 33.0 |
| 15. Nicholas County | 32.3 |
| 16. Paris | 30.9 |
| 17. Frankfort | 29.6 |
| 18. Russellville | 29.0 |
| 19. Harlan | 28.3 |
| 20. Bracken County | 26.4 |
| 21. Dayton | 24.5 |
| 22. Betsy Layne | 22.8 |
| 23. Ludlow | 20.3 |
| 24. Berea | 18.3 |
| 25. Fulton County | 15.2 |
| 26. Fort Knox | 11.5 |
| 27. Eminence | 6.9 |
| 28. Caverna | 5.5 |
| 29. Fairview | 1.3 |
| 30. Lynn Camp | 0.4 |
| 31. Phelps | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Beechwood | 84.4 |
| 2. Lexington Christian | 78.6 |
| 3. Mayfield | 77.2 |
| 4. Owensboro Catholic | 67.3 |
| 5. Danville | 61.7 |
| 6. Lloyd | 56.6 |
| 7. Shelby Valley | 52.7 |
| 8. Murray | 50.1 |
| 9. Breathitt County | 48.0 |
| 10. Metcalfe County | 47.5 |
| 11. Somerset | 45.5 |
| 12. Middlesboro | 44.7 |
| 13. Hancock County | 43.8 |
| 14. Green County | 42.7 |
| 15. Caldwell County | 42.6 |
| 16. Butler County | 42.5 |
| 17. McLean County | 40.7 |
| 18. Walton-Verona | 37.5 |
| 19. Martin County | 36.9 |
| 20. Carroll County | 33.3 |
| 21. Todd Central | 31.2 |
| 22. Newport | 29.9 |
| 23. Covington Holy Cross | 28.8 |
| 24. Prestonsburg | 26.7 |
| 25. West Carter | 25.5 |
| 26. Washington County | 25.4 |
| 27. Leslie County | 23.9 |
| 28. Monroe County | 20.6 |
| 29. Edmonson County | 14.3 |
| 30. Fort Campbell | 13.4 |
| 31. Owen County | 11.7 |
| 32. East Ridge | 10.3 |
| 33. Gallatin County | 4.3 |
| 34. Knott Central | 3.5 |
| 35. Trimble County | 1.5 |
| 36. Ballard Memorial | 0.1 |
| 36. Bath County | 0.1 |
| 36. Clinton County | 0.1 |
| 36. Morgan County | 0.1 |
| 36. Shawnee | 0.1 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 87.9 |
| 2. Bardstown | 75.2 |
| 3. Union County | 69.7 |
| 4. Paducah Tilghman | 68.3 |
| 5. Elizabethtown | 67.4 |
| 6. Glasgow | 66.3 |
| 7. Bell County | 65.6 |
| 8. Belfry | 61.8 |
| 9. Ashland Blazer | 60.9 |
| 10. Lawrence County | 59.6 |
| 11. Mercer County | 59.0 |
| 12. Henry County | 55.6 |
| 13. Taylor County | 54.8 |
| 14. East Carter | 52.5 |
| 15. Mason County | 49.4 |
| 16. Casey County | 49.2 |
| 17. Russell | 48.3 |
| 18. Greenup County | 48.1 |
| 19. Hart County | 47.7 |
| 20. Estill County | 41.7 |
| 21. LaRue County | 41.3 |
| 21. Rockcastle County | 41.3 |
| 23. Trigg County | 40.1 |
| 24. Nelson County | 38.6 |
| 25. Fleming County | 38.2 |
| 26. Garrard County | 37.5 |
| 27. DeSales | 36.1 |
| 28. Adair County | 29.1 |
| 29. Magoffin County | 23.2 |
| 30. Western Hills | 23.0 |
| 31. Webster County | 20.4 |
| 32. Powell County | 19.0 |
| 33. Floyd Central | 18.1 |
| 33. Pike Central | 18.1 |
| 35. Thomas Nelson | 16.2 |
| 36. McCreary Central | 15.7 |
| 37. Lewis County | 13.3 |
| 38. Jackson County | 0.1 |
| 38. Pendleton County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Lexington Catholic | 88.4 |
| 2. Corbin | 87.3 |
| 3. Boyle County | 86.8 |
| 4. Central | 79.8 |
| 5. Johnson Central | 79.0 |
| 6. Franklin County | 74.5 |
| 7. Logan County | 70.1 |
| 8. Spencer County | 69.5 |
| 9. Letcher Central | 65.8 |
| 10. Hopkinsville | 64.0 |
| 11. Madisonville | 61.6 |
| 12. Warren East | 60.4 |
| 13. Wayne County | 55.4 |
| 14. Franklin-Simpson | 54.9 |
| 15. Holmes | 52.9 |
| 16. Bourbon County | 51.2 |
| 17. Boyd County | 51.0 |
| 18. Shelby County | 50.1 |
| 19. Lincoln County | 49.7 |
| 20. Knox Central | 46.1 |
| 21. North Oldham | 44.8 |
| 22. Allen County | 44.6 |
| 23. Rowan County | 43.9 |
| 24. Clay County | 43.0 |
| 25. John Hardin | 42.6 |
| 26. Scott | 41.4 |
| 27. Harlan County | 40.9 |
| 28. Perry Central | 39.4 |
| 29. Hopkins Central | 34.1 |
| 30. Warren Central | 33.3 |
| 31. Harrison County | 27.9 |
| 32. Anderson County | 27.6 |
| 33. Russell County | 25.0 |
| 34. Valley | 24.8 |
| 35. Calloway County | 19.8 |
| 36. Waggener | 17.2 |
| 37. Moore | 16.9 |
| 38. Marion County | 14.3 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Frederick Douglass | 89.7 |
| 2. Highlands | 87.7 |
| 3. Bowling Green | 87.2 |
| 4. Woodford County | 84.7 |
| 5. Covington Catholic | 84.5 |
| 6. Scott County | 84.4 |
| 7. Southwestern | 82.2 |
| 8. Owensboro | 80.9 |
| 9. South Warren | 80.3 |
| 10. Pulaski County | 79.9 |
| 11. Greenwood | 78.3 |
| 12. Cooper | 74.9 |
| 13. South Oldham | 69.4 |
| 14. Fairdale | 65.8 |
| 15. North Laurel | 64.7 |
| 16. Collins | 62.3 |
| 17. Great Crossing | 61.2 |
| 18. Madison Southern | 60.3 |
| 19. Graves County | 56.2 |
| 20. Conner | 53.3 |
| 21. Atherton | 51.7 |
| 22. West Jessamine | 50.3 |
| 23. Whitley County | 48.5 |
| 24. Christian County | 45.6 |
| 25. Boone County | 43.4 |
| 26. Seneca | 39.8 |
| 27. Bullitt Central | 38.2 |
| 28. Montgomery County | 37.9 |
| 29. East Jessamine | 34.0 |
| 30. Grayson County | 30.8 |
| 31. Doss | 29.8 |
| 32. North Bullitt | 29.7 |
| 32. Western | 29.7 |
| 34. Grant County | 19.6 |
| 35. South Laurel | 17.8 |
| 36. Ohio County | 16.9 |
| 37. Jeffersontown | 6.2 |
| 38. Muhlenberg County | 5.4 |
| 39. Iroquois | 4.9 |
| 40. Breckinridge County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. St. Xavier | 92.8 |
| 2. Male | 86.7 |
| 3. Trinity | 84.9 |
| 4. Bullitt East | 83.8 |
| 5. Ballard | 83.4 |
| 6. Henderson County | 83.1 |
| 7. Central Hardin | 82.8 |
| 8. Bryan Station | 82.3 |
| 8. Manual | 82.3 |
| 10. Simon Kenton | 80.2 |
| 11. Ryle | 78.1 |
| 12. Daviess County | 76.2 |
| 13. Pleasure Ridge Park | 73.7 |
| 14. Madison Central | 71.9 |
| 15. North Hardin | 69.0 |
| 16. Clark County | 66.6 |
| 17. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 62.9 |
| 18. Meade County | 61.8 |
| 19. Campbell County | 60.9 |
| 20. Dixie Heights | 57.6 |
| 21. Fern Creek | 57.4 |
| 22. Eastern | 57.1 |
| 23. McCracken County | 56.5 |
| 24. Butler | 55.2 |
| 25. Tates Creek | 55.0 |
| 26. Henry Clay | 52.8 |
| 27. Apollo | 50.4 |
| 28. Barren County | 46.4 |
| 29. Oldham County | 42.5 |
| 30. Marshall County | 33.8 |
| 31. Southern | 33.2 |
| 32. Lafayette | 32.2 |