High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 7
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | Last week |
| 1. St. Xavier (5-1) | 92.7 | 1 |
| 2. Boyle County (6-0) | 91.2 | 3 |
| 3. Frederick Douglass (7-0) | 89.4 | 2 |
| 4. Christian Academy-Louisville (7-0) | 88.8 | 5 |
| 5. Manual (6-0) | 87.9 | 6 |
| 6. Bowling Green (6-1) | 86.6 | 16 |
| 7. Lexington Catholic (5-1) | 86.2 | 7 |
| 8. South Warren (3-3) | 86.1 | 4 |
| 9. Covington Catholic (6-1) | 85.8 | 8 |
| 10. Pikeville (4-2) | 85.3 | 15 |
| 10. Male (3-3) | 85.3 | 10 |
| 12. Corbin (6-0) | 85.1 | 9 |
| 12. Trinity (4-3) | 85.1 | 12 |
| 14. Ballard (5-1) | 85.0 | 13 |
| 15. Beechwood (5-1) | 84.9 | 14 |
| 16. Woodford County (6-0) | 84.5 | 11 |
| 17. Highlands (5-2) | 83.9 | 17 |
| 18. Southwestern (6-0) | 82.0 | 18 |
| 19. Scott County (5-1) | 81.8 | 22 |
| 20. Central Hardin (6-1) | 81.1 | 21 |
| 21. Daviess County (5-2) | 80.7 | 20 |
| 22. Bullitt East (5-1) | 80.3 | NR |
| 23. Henderson County (5-1) | 79.3 | 23 |
| 24. Pulaski County (6-1) | 79.0 | 19 |
| 25. Mayfield (7-0) | 78.7 | NR |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | |
| 1. Pikeville | 85.3 |
| 2. Raceland | 77.8 |
| 3. Bethlehem | 61.5 |
| 4. Hazard | 59.1 |
| 5. Newport Central Catholic | 53.3 |
| 6. Louisville Holy Cross | 49.9 |
| 7. Paintsville | 48.4 |
| 8. Kentucky Country Day | 45.4 |
| 9. Sayre | 43.5 |
| 10. Pineville | 42.6 |
| 11. Crittenden County | 41.9 |
| 12. Williamsburg | 39.7 |
| 13. Campbellsville | 37.1 |
| 14. Nicholas County | 35.7 |
| 15. Bishop Brossart | 34.7 |
| 16. Frankfort | 33.1 |
| 17. Paris | 31.8 |
| 18. Russellville | 29.6 |
| 19. Dayton | 24.9 |
| 20. Bracken County | 24.5 |
| 21. Betsy Layne | 22.9 |
| 22. Harlan | 22.0 |
| 23. Ludlow | 21.7 |
| 24. Berea | 17.6 |
| 25. Fulton County | 16.5 |
| 26. Fort Knox | 9.3 |
| 27. Eminence | 9.1 |
| 28. Fairview | 0.6 |
| 29. Caverna | 0.5 |
| 30. Lynn Camp | 0.3 |
| 31. Bellevue | 0.1 |
| 31. Phelps | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Beechwood | 84.9 |
| 2. Mayfield | 78.7 |
| 3. Lexington Christian | 75.9 |
| 4. Owensboro Catholic | 65.8 |
| 5. Danville | 58.8 |
| 6. Lloyd | 54.5 |
| 7. Murray | 53.7 |
| 8. Shelby Valley | 52.3 |
| 9. Somerset | 51.3 |
| 10. Hancock County | 48.5 |
| 11. Breathitt County | 48.2 |
| 12. Metcalfe County | 45.5 |
| 13. Green County | 44.8 |
| 14. Middlesboro | 43.9 |
| 15. Butler County | 40.9 |
| 16. Caldwell County | 40.1 |
| 17. McLean County | 40.0 |
| 17. Walton-Verona | 40.0 |
| 19. West Carter | 34.1 |
| 20. Carroll County | 32.0 |
| 20. Martin County | 32.0 |
| 22. Newport | 31.4 |
| 23. Todd Central | 28.7 |
| 24. Covington Holy Cross | 28.4 |
| 25. Washington County | 24.9 |
| 26. Leslie County | 23.3 |
| 27. Prestonsburg | 21.2 |
| 28. Monroe County | 20.7 |
| 29. Edmonson County | 14.9 |
| 30. Fort Campbell | 12.7 |
| 31. Owen County | 12.4 |
| 32. East Ridge | 10.3 |
| 33. Gallatin County | 6.0 |
| 34. Trimble County | 2.3 |
| 35. Ballard Memorial | 0.4 |
| 36. Bath County | 0.1 |
| 36. Clinton County | 0.1 |
| 36. Knott Central | 0.1 |
| 36. Morgan County | 0.1 |
| 36. Shawnee | 0.1 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 88.8 |
| 2. Bardstown | 75.7 |
| 3. Glasgow | 69.8 |
| 4. Paducah Tilghman | 69.6 |
| 5. Union County | 67.3 |
| 6. Belfry | 65.1 |
| 7. Elizabethtown | 64.5 |
| 8. Bell County | 63.2 |
| 9. Mercer County | 62.3 |
| 10. Lawrence County | 59.7 |
| 11. Ashland Blazer | 59.3 |
| 12. East Carter | 57.8 |
| 13. Henry County | 52.2 |
| 14. Casey County | 49.7 |
| 15. Mason County | 49.6 |
| 16. Hart County | 49.4 |
| 17. Greenup County | 46.5 |
| 18. Russell | 46.0 |
| 19. Taylor County | 45.5 |
| 20. LaRue County | 45.0 |
| 21. Rockcastle County | 42.0 |
| 21. Trigg County | 42.0 |
| 23. Estill County | 39.5 |
| 24. Garrard County | 37.5 |
| 25. DeSales | 37.2 |
| 26. Fleming County | 36.9 |
| 27. Adair County | 34.3 |
| 28. Nelson County | 33.8 |
| 29. Magoffin County | 25.2 |
| 30. Western Hills | 20.9 |
| 31. McCreary Central | 19.7 |
| 32. Webster County | 19.0 |
| 33. Floyd Central | 18.8 |
| 34. Thomas Nelson | 17.6 |
| 35. Pike Central | 16.0 |
| 36. Powell County | 14.7 |
| 37. Lewis County | 13.5 |
| 38. Pendleton County | 2.8 |
| 39. Jackson County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Boyle County | 91.2 |
| 2. Lexington Catholic | 86.2 |
| 3. Corbin | 85.1 |
| 4. Johnson Central | 77.6 |
| 5. Franklin County | 77.2 |
| 6. Central | 72.1 |
| 7. Logan County | 71.7 |
| 8. Spencer County | 67.1 |
| 9. Hopkinsville | 64.8 |
| 10. Madisonville | 63.2 |
| 11. Letcher Central | 62.1 |
| 12. Warren East | 58.2 |
| 13. Franklin-Simpson | 57.5 |
| 14. Lincoln County | 55.3 |
| 15. Holmes | 52.1 |
| 16. Wayne County | 50.5 |
| 17. Bourbon County | 48.7 |
| 17. Shelby County | 48.7 |
| 19. Knox Central | 48.3 |
| 20. Scott | 47.8 |
| 21. North Oldham | 46.3 |
| 22. Allen County-Scottsville | 44.4 |
| 22. Perry Central | 44.4 |
| 24. Rowan County | 43.9 |
| 25. Boyd County | 43.2 |
| 26. Clay County | 42.8 |
| 27. John Hardin | 41.4 |
| 28. Harlan County | 39.1 |
| 29. Harrison County | 30.7 |
| 30. Hopkins Central | 30.0 |
| 31. Warren Central | 29.5 |
| 32. Russell County | 27.2 |
| 33. Moore | 25.9 |
| 34. Anderson County | 24.7 |
| 35. Valley | 23.1 |
| 36. Waggener | 21.8 |
| 37. Calloway County | 20.2 |
| 38. Marion County | 15.4 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Frederick Douglass | 89.4 |
| 2. Bowling Green | 86.6 |
| 3. South Warren | 86.1 |
| 4. Covington Catholic | 85.8 |
| 5. Woodford County | 84.5 |
| 6. Highlands | 83.9 |
| 7. Southwestern | 82.0 |
| 8. Scott County | 81.8 |
| 9. Pulaski County | 79.0 |
| 10. Owensboro | 76.9 |
| 11. Greenwood | 73.1 |
| 12. Cooper | 70.6 |
| 13. Fairdale | 68.2 |
| 14. South Oldham | 67.4 |
| 15. North Laurel | 65.4 |
| 16. Collins | 64.9 |
| 17. Great Crossing | 63.5 |
| 18. Graves County | 60.7 |
| 19. Madison Southern | 58.9 |
| 20. Conner | 55.9 |
| 21. Atherton | 53.4 |
| 22. Whitley County | 49.1 |
| 23. West Jessamine | 48.5 |
| 24. Boone County | 47.4 |
| 25. Christian County | 44.0 |
| 26. Bullitt Central | 38.6 |
| 27. Seneca | 38.3 |
| 28. Montgomery County | 36.3 |
| 29. East Jessamine | 33.6 |
| 30. Grayson County | 31.1 |
| 31. Western | 30.8 |
| 32. North Bullitt | 29.8 |
| 33. Doss | 27.5 |
| 34. Grant County | 19.1 |
| 35. South Laurel | 16.4 |
| 36. Ohio County | 12.9 |
| 37. Jeffersontown | 9.7 |
| 38. Iroquois | 5.6 |
| 39. Breckinridge County | 4.1 |
| 40. Muhlenberg County | 2.6 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. St. Xavier | 92.7 |
| 2. Manual | 87.9 |
| 3. Male | 85.3 |
| 4. Trinity | 85.1 |
| 5. Ballard | 85.0 |
| 6. Central Hardin | 81.1 |
| 7. Daviess County | 80.7 |
| 8. Bullitt East | 80.3 |
| 9. Henderson County | 79.3 |
| 10. Ryle | 76.8 |
| 11. Bryan Station | 76.7 |
| 12. Simon Kenton | 73.1 |
| 13. Madison Central | 70.5 |
| 14. Pleasure Ridge Park | 69.8 |
| 15. North Hardin | 69.5 |
| 16. Clark County | 68.5 |
| 17. Dixie Heights | 66.8 |
| 18. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 61.6 |
| 19. Fern Creek | 59.9 |
| 20. Meade County | 59.3 |
| 21. Campbell County | 58.7 |
| 22. Eastern | 56.7 |
| 23. McCracken County | 56.1 |
| 24. Butler | 53.3 |
| 25. Henry Clay | 52.4 |
| 26. Tates Creek | 51.2 |
| 27. Barren County | 50.6 |
| 28. Apollo | 49.8 |
| 29. Oldham County | 47.9 |
| 30. Marshall County | 39.4 |
| 31. Lafayette | 37.6 |
| 32. Southern | 32.3 |