High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 9
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | LW |
| 1. Male (7-0) | 92.1 | 1 |
| 2. St. Xavier (7-1) | 90.3 | 2 |
| 3. Corbin (8-0) | 88.7 | 4 |
| 4. Frederick Douglass (8-0) | 88.3 | 5 |
| 4. South Warren (7-1) | 88.3 | 3 |
| 6. Manual (6-2) | 87.8 | 7 |
| 7. Boyle County (7-1) | 87.0 | 6 |
| 8. Lexington Christian (8-0) | 86.7 | 9 |
| 9. Beechwood (8-0) | 86.5 | 8 |
| 10. Trinity (2-7) | 84.3 | 11 |
| 11. Johnson Central (6-2) | 84.1 | 10 |
| 12. Ryle (6-2) | 83.9 | 12 |
| 13. Covington Catholic (5-3) | 83.0 | 13 |
| 14. Woodford County (8-0) | 82.4 | 18 |
| 14. Ballard (5-3) | 82.4 | 14 |
| 16. Central (6-3) | 81.3 | 16 |
| 17. Bryan Station (7-1) | 81.2 | 20 |
| 17. Lexington Catholic (6-2) | 81.2 | 15 |
| 19. Christian Academy-Louisville (7-1) | 81.1 | 17 |
| 20. Cooper (6-2) | 80.4 | 19 |
| 21. Bowling Green (4-4) | 79.8 | NR |
| 22. Scott County (5-3) | 79.4 | 25 |
| 23. Daviess County (7-1) | 79.2 | NR |
| 24. Dixie Heights (4-4) | 78.9 | 23 |
| 25. Southwestern (7-1) | 78.6 | 22 |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | |
| 1. Pikeville | 76.3 |
| 2. Raceland | 67.6 |
| 3. Bethlehem | 58.5 |
| 4. Paintsville | 55.9 |
| 5. Crittenden County | 53.3 |
| 6. Newport Central Catholic | 53.1 |
| 7. Russellville | 52.7 |
| 8. Hazard | 52.2 |
| 9. Kentucky Country Day | 51.8 |
| 10. Williamsburg | 49.5 |
| 11. Sayre | 44.4 |
| 12. Louisville Holy Cross | 43.9 |
| 13. Frankfort | 43.1 |
| 14. Bishop Brossart | 41.7 |
| 15. Campbellsville | 32.9 |
| 16. Nicholas County | 32.2 |
| 17. Pineville | 29.9 |
| 18. Eminence | 28.9 |
| 19. Dayton | 21.0 |
| 20. Ludlow | 20.3 |
| 21. Betsy Layne | 19.4 |
| 22. Paris | 15.8 |
| 23. Phelps | 13.3 |
| 24. Bracken County | 12.9 |
| 25. Fulton County | 12.2 |
| 26. Fort Knox | 11.6 |
| 27. Harlan | 9.6 |
| 28. Berea | 8.5 |
| 29. Caverna | 3.7 |
| 30. Lynn Camp | 2.5 |
| 31. Fairview | 0.6 |
| 32. Bellevue | 0.1 |
| 32. Jenkins | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Lexington Christian | 86.7 |
| 2. Beechwood | 86.5 |
| 3. Mayfield | 75.0 |
| 4. Danville | 61.0 |
| 5. Caldwell County | 58.6 |
| 6. Murray | 55.7 |
| 7. Owensboro Catholic | 55.1 |
| 8. West Carter | 51.0 |
| 9. Somerset | 49.4 |
| 10. Middlesboro | 49.0 |
| 11. Walton-Verona | 42.2 |
| 12. Hancock County | 42.0 |
| 13. Green County | 41.6 |
| 14. Breathitt County | 41.1 |
| 15. Metcalfe County | 39.6 |
| 16. Carroll County | 39.4 |
| 17. Lloyd | 37.8 |
| 18. Shelby Valley | 35.1 |
| 19. Martin County | 32.9 |
| 20. Newport | 31.1 |
| 21. McLean County | 30.4 |
| 22. Covington Holy Cross | 30.3 |
| 23. Butler County | 24.2 |
| 24. Todd Central | 24.1 |
| 25. Washington County | 23.8 |
| 26. Monroe County | 22.2 |
| 27. Edmonson County | 18.0 |
| 28. Prestonsburg | 16.5 |
| 29. Clinton County | 14.5 |
| 30. Leslie County | 14.1 |
| 31. Bath County | 11.8 |
| 32. Gallatin County | 8.8 |
| 33. Morgan County | 8.0 |
| 34. Owen County | 6.6 |
| 35. Knott Central | 4.5 |
| 36. Fort Campbell | 3.1 |
| 37. East Ridge | 1.8 |
| 38. Shawnee | 1.3 |
| 39. Ballard Memorial | 1.1 |
| 40. Trimble County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 81.1 |
| 2. Ashland Blazer | 68.9 |
| 3. Bardstown | 67.4 |
| 4. Belfry | 67.0 |
| 5. Mercer County | 65.3 |
| 6. Bell County | 64.0 |
| 7. Glasgow | 63.8 |
| 8. Elizabethtown | 62.5 |
| 9. Union County | 59.9 |
| 10. Russell | 59.7 |
| 11. Paducah Tilghman | 59.4 |
| 12. DeSales | 57.8 |
| 13. Lawrence County | 56.0 |
| 14. Taylor County | 54.1 |
| 15. Rockcastle County | 53.2 |
| 16. East Carter | 49.9 |
| 17. Estill County | 45.5 |
| 18. Adair County | 45.0 |
| 19. LaRue County | 43.1 |
| 20. Henry County | 40.6 |
| 21. Garrard County | 40.3 |
| 22. Fleming County | 37.7 |
| 23. Mason County | 36.5 |
| 24. Greenup County | 35.7 |
| 25. Trigg County | 34.9 |
| 26. Casey County | 32.2 |
| 27. Hart County | 30.6 |
| 28. Western Hills | 29.3 |
| 29. Magoffin County | 28.0 |
| 30. Pike Central | 27.4 |
| 31. Thomas Nelson | 23.3 |
| 32. Nelson County | 20.1 |
| 33. McCreary Central | 16.1 |
| 34. Floyd Central | 16.0 |
| 35. Pendleton County | 9.1 |
| 36. Powell County | 6.5 |
| 37. Webster County | 4.3 |
| 38. Lewis County | 3.4 |
| 39. Jackson County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Corbin | 88.7 |
| 2. Boyle County | 87.0 |
| 3. Johnson Central | 84.1 |
| 4. Central | 81.3 |
| 5. Lexington Catholic | 81.2 |
| 6. Franklin County | 78.4 |
| 7. Hopkinsville | 71.8 |
| 8. Lincoln County | 66.1 |
| 9. John Hardin | 65.6 |
| 10. Letcher Central | 63.7 |
| 11. Logan County | 63.3 |
| 12. Spencer County | 56.5 |
| 13. Bourbon County | 55.7 |
| 14. Holmes | 54.3 |
| 15. Knox Central | 53.2 |
| 16. Wayne County | 52.4 |
| 17. Franklin-Simpson | 52.3 |
| 18. Madisonville | 49.9 |
| 19. Rowan County | 48.7 |
| 20. Warren East | 47.7 |
| 21. Allen County-Scottsville | 46.7 |
| 22. Scott | 46.0 |
| 23. Russell County | 45.1 |
| 24. Perry Central | 44.1 |
| 25. Calloway County | 42.8 |
| 25. Harlan County | 42.8 |
| 27. Shelby County | 41.3 |
| 28. Waggener | 40.9 |
| 29. North Oldham | 39.1 |
| 30. Moore | 38.4 |
| 31. Clay County | 38.2 |
| 32. Boyd County | 34.4 |
| 33. Anderson County | 32.8 |
| 34. Hopkins Central | 30.8 |
| 35. Harrison County | 27.6 |
| 36. Warren Central | 14.3 |
| 37. Marion County | 11.2 |
| 38. Valley | 7.0 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Frederick Douglass | 88.3 |
| 1. South Warren | 88.3 |
| 3. Covington Catholic | 83.0 |
| 4. Woodford County | 82.4 |
| 5. Cooper | 80.4 |
| 6. Bowling Green | 79.8 |
| 7. Scott County | 79.4 |
| 8. Southwestern | 78.6 |
| 9. Highlands | 77.8 |
| 10. Owensboro | 77.4 |
| 11. Pulaski County | 75.5 |
| 12. Graves County | 70.0 |
| 13. South Oldham | 68.3 |
| 14. Conner | 67.8 |
| 15. Collins | 62.8 |
| 15. Greenwood | 62.8 |
| 17. Great Crossing | 61.4 |
| 18. North Laurel | 58.6 |
| 19. Fairdale | 55.9 |
| 20. Madison Southern | 54.3 |
| 21. Bullitt Central | 51.4 |
| 22. Whitley County | 49.8 |
| 23. West Jessamine | 49.0 |
| 24. Boone County | 45.6 |
| 25. Christian County | 45.2 |
| 26. North Bullitt | 43.8 |
| 27. Grayson County | 41.6 |
| 28. Montgomery County | 41.4 |
| 29. Doss | 40.4 |
| 30. East Jessamine | 40.2 |
| 31. Atherton | 35.9 |
| 32. Western | 31.5 |
| 33. Grant County | 24.7 |
| 34. South Laurel | 19.0 |
| 35. Breckinridge County | 18.8 |
| 36. Ohio County | 15.8 |
| 37. Seneca | 14.6 |
| 38. Jeffersontown | 14.4 |
| 39. Muhlenberg County | 12.3 |
| 40. Iroquois | 11.9 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. Male | 92.1 |
| 2. St. Xavier | 90.3 |
| 3. Manual | 87.8 |
| 4. Trinity | 84.3 |
| 5. Ryle | 83.9 |
| 6. Ballard | 82.4 |
| 7. Bryan Station | 81.2 |
| 8. Daviess County | 79.2 |
| 9. Dixie Heights | 78.9 |
| 10. Bullitt East | 77.1 |
| 11. Madison Central | 73.9 |
| 12. North Hardin | 72.4 |
| 13. Oldham County | 71.8 |
| 14. Central Hardin | 70.5 |
| 15. Pleasure Ridge Park | 69.4 |
| 16. Henderson County | 69.0 |
| 17. Fern Creek | 67.0 |
| 18. Apollo | 63.8 |
| 19. Simon Kenton | 63.5 |
| 20. McCracken County | 62.0 |
| 21. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 61.3 |
| 22. Eastern | 57.8 |
| 23. Tates Creek | 55.7 |
| 24. Meade County | 54.1 |
| 25. Clark County | 53.0 |
| 26. Henry Clay | 50.6 |
| 27. Butler | 50.1 |
| 28. Campbell County | 49.9 |
| 29. Southern | 48.5 |
| 30. Lafayette | 44.6 |
| 31. Barren County | 40.0 |
| 32. Marshall County | 37.4 |