High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 6 (Sept. 24)
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | LW |
| 1. Boyle County (6-0) | 92.5 | 5 |
| 2. Male (4-1) | 92.1 | 4 |
| 3. Corbin (5-0) | 92.0 | 1 |
| 4. Frederick Douglass (2-3) | 91.7 | 3 |
| 5. Trinity (3-3) | 91.0 | 6 |
| 6. Christian Academy-Louisville (5-1) | 89.3 | 7 |
| 7. Highlands (5-1) | 87.9 | t8 |
| 8. Covington Catholic (6-0) | 87.3 | t8 |
| 8. Scott County (5-1) | 87.3 | 11 |
| 10. Ballard (4-2) | 87.0 | 13 |
| 11. Manual (5-1) | 86.5 | 10 |
| 12. St. Xavier (3-2) | 86.1 | 2 |
| 13. South Warren (5-1) | 85.7 | 19 |
| 14. Owensboro Catholic (6-0) | 85.5 | 14 |
| 15. Lexington Christian (5-1) | 84.8 | 12 |
| 16. Bryan Station (3-2) | 84.6 | 17 |
| 17. Beechwood (5-1) | 84.0 | t15 |
| 18. Lexington Catholic (2-4) | 83.8 | t15 |
| 19. Bowling Green (4-2) | 83.6 | 18 |
| 20. Franklin County (5-0) | 82.9 | 23 |
| 20. Mayfield (4-1) | 82.9 | 21 |
| 22. Owensboro (3-3) | 82.8 | 20 |
| 23. Paducah Tilghman (6-0) | 82.1 | 22 |
| 24. Pikeville (3-2) | 81.6 | 24 |
| 25. Bullitt East (5-1) | 81.5 | NR |
| 25. Cooper (4-2) | 81.5 | 25 |
| 25. Southwestern (3-2) | 81.5 | NR |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | |
| 1. Pikeville | 81.6 |
| 2. Raceland | 77.3 |
| 3. Campbellsville | 60.8 |
| 4. Kentucky Country Day | 56.3 |
| 5. Paris | 55.7 |
| 6. Newport Central Catholic | 53.9 |
| 7. Bethlehem | 47.3 |
| 8. Sayre | 44.7 |
| 9. Middlesboro | 42.2 |
| 10. Hazard | 41.8 |
| 11. Louisville Holy Cross | 40.9 |
| 12. Newport | 40.0 |
| 13. Williamsburg | 33.7 |
| 14. Bishop Brossart | 30.7 |
| 15. Paintsville | 29.2 |
| 16. Ludlow | 20.8 |
| 17. Frankfort | 20.0 |
| 18. Harlan | 19.6 |
| 19. Covington Holy Cross | 19.2 |
| 20. Eminence | 19.0 |
| 21. Russellville | 18.4 |
| 22. Pineville | 18.1 |
| 23. Dayton | 16.4 |
| 24. Nicholas County | 15.9 |
| 25. Caverna | 8.9 |
| 26. Fulton County | 6.9 |
| 27. Trimble County | 5.3 |
| 28. Bellevue | 3.6 |
| 29. Lynn Camp | 3.3 |
| 30. Berea | 0.1 |
| 30. Fairview | 0.1 |
| 30. Jenkins | 0.1 |
| 30. Phelps | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Owensboro Catholic | 85.5 |
| 2. Lexington Christian | 84.8 |
| 3. Beechwood | 84.0 |
| 4. Mayfield | 82.9 |
| 5. Green County | 54.5 |
| 6. Murray | 52.9 |
| 7. Somerset | 51.2 |
| 8. Breathitt County | 50.6 |
| 9. Shelby Valley | 49.8 |
| 10. Danville | 43.4 |
| 11. Crittenden County | 42.8 |
| 12. Metcalfe County | 37.5 |
| 13. Bracken County | 37.2 |
| 14. Martin County | 34.9 |
| 15. Betsy Layne | 34.6 |
| 16. Washington County | 33.9 |
| 17. Walton-Verona | 32.3 |
| 18. Carroll County | 32.2 |
| 19. Leslie County | 31.7 |
| 20. Monroe County | 31.5 |
| 21. Caldwell County | 30.6 |
| 22. Prestonsburg | 27.8 |
| 23. Pike Central | 25.7 |
| 24. Todd Central | 24.0 |
| 25. Floyd Central | 19.1 |
| 26. Fort Campbell | 18.6 |
| 27. Gallatin County | 16.0 |
| 28. East Ridge | 14.9 |
| 29. Morgan County | 14.6 |
| 30. Clinton County | 13.2 |
| 31. W.E.B. DuBois | 12.7 |
| 32. Edmonson County | 10.3 |
| 33. Shawnee | 8.6 |
| 34. Owen County | 7.9 |
| 35. Knott Central | 3.2 |
| 36. Fort Knox | 0.2 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 89.3 |
| 2. Lexington Catholic | 83.8 |
| 3. Central | 80.4 |
| 4. Lloyd | 71.3 |
| 5. Bell County | 69.5 |
| 6. Mercer County | 68.7 |
| 6. Union County | 68.7 |
| 8. Belfry | 66.3 |
| 9. Glasgow | 65.0 |
| 10. Hart County | 61.0 |
| 11. Franklin-Simpson | 58.5 |
| 12. Lawrence County | 57.3 |
| 13. Elizabethtown | 56.7 |
| 14. Rockcastle County | 53.9 |
| 15. Russell | 51.7 |
| 16. Clay County | 50.5 |
| 17. East Carter | 50.4 |
| 18. Adair County | 46.7 |
| 19. Fleming County | 45.2 |
| 20. Casey County | 44.8 |
| 21. McLean County | 43.4 |
| 22. Hancock County | 42.1 |
| 23. Knox Central | 37.3 |
| 24. Webster County | 36.5 |
| 25. Hopkins Central | 34.4 |
| 26. Estill County | 33.8 |
| 26. LaRue County | 33.8 |
| 28. Trigg County | 30.3 |
| 29. Garrard County | 29.2 |
| 30. Butler County | 25.2 |
| 31. West Carter | 23.7 |
| 32. Bourbon County | 23.4 |
| 33. Marion County | 23.3 |
| 34. Magoffin County | 17.9 |
| 35. Lewis County | 16.2 |
| 36. Powell County | 14.7 |
| 37. Jackson County | 14.6 |
| 38. McCreary Central | 10.3 |
| 39. Bath County | 0.1 |
| 39. Pendleton County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Boyle County | 92.5 |
| 2. Corbin | 92.0 |
| 3. Covington Catholic | 87.3 |
| 4. Franklin County | 82.9 |
| 5. Paducah Tilghman | 82.1 |
| 6. Ashland Blazer | 81.2 |
| 7. Johnson Central | 76.1 |
| 8. Logan County | 67.8 |
| 9. Taylor County | 65.6 |
| 10. Letcher Central | 64.3 |
| 11. Bardstown | 64.2 |
| 12. Warren East | 63.7 |
| 13. Henry County | 56.6 |
| 14. Whitley County | 56.3 |
| 15. Spencer County | 55.4 |
| 16. Mason County | 54.1 |
| 17. North Oldham | 52.8 |
| 18. Greenup County | 52.1 |
| 19. Boyd County | 51.7 |
| 20. Hopkinsville | 51.6 |
| 21. Wayne County | 50.5 |
| 22. Lincoln County | 50.1 |
| 23. Perry Central | 48.6 |
| 24. Nelson County | 47.0 |
| 24. Shelby County | 47.0 |
| 26. Allen County | 46.7 |
| 27. DeSales | 44.5 |
| 28. John Hardin | 38.6 |
| 29. Rowan County | 32.8 |
| 30. Harrison County | 31.7 |
| 31. Western Hills | 31.0 |
| 32. Calloway County | 28.3 |
| 33. Western | 25.5 |
| 34. Jeffersontown | 25.3 |
| 35. Russell County | 24.3 |
| 36. Holmes | 22.6 |
| 37. Grant County | 18.6 |
| 38. Doss | 12.5 |
| 39. Waggener | 9.6 |
| 40. Breckinridge County | 8.6 |
| 41. Thomas Nelson | 7.6 |
| 42. Valley | 5.2 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Highlands | 87.9 |
| 2. Scott County | 87.3 |
| 3. South Warren | 85.7 |
| 4. Bowling Green | 83.6 |
| 5. Owensboro | 82.8 |
| 6. Cooper | 81.5 |
| 6. Southwestern | 81.5 |
| 8. Woodford County | 79.9 |
| 9. South Oldham | 76.3 |
| 10. Greenwood | 73.3 |
| 11. Dixie Heights | 72.1 |
| 12. Pulaski County | 71.5 |
| 13. Collins | 65.6 |
| 14. North Laurel | 64.2 |
| 15. Madisonville | 63.0 |
| 16. Conner | 61.5 |
| 16. Graves County | 61.5 |
| 18. Fairdale | 59.2 |
| 19. Madison Southern | 54.6 |
| 20. Atherton | 52.7 |
| 21. Butler | 51.7 |
| 22. Seneca | 45.7 |
| 23. West Jessamine | 42.3 |
| 24. Apollo | 41.9 |
| 25. Grayson County | 41.6 |
| 26. Montgomery County | 41.1 |
| 27. Boone County | 37.3 |
| 28. Harlan County | 35.2 |
| 29. North Bullitt | 34.7 |
| 30. South Laurel | 31.0 |
| 31. Scott High | 30.4 |
| 32. East Jessamine | 28.4 |
| 33. Bullitt Central | 26.3 |
| 34. Marshall County | 25.8 |
| 35. Moore | 21.3 |
| 36. Anderson County | 18.0 |
| 37. Ohio County | 14.8 |
| 38. Muhlenberg County | 6.4 |
| 39. Iroquois | 0.1 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. Male | 92.1 |
| 2. Frederick Douglass | 91.7 |
| 3. Trinity | 91.0 |
| 4. Ballard | 87.0 |
| 5. Manual | 86.5 |
| 6. St. Xavier | 86.1 |
| 7. Bryan Station | 84.6 |
| 8. Bullitt East | 81.5 |
| 9. Simon Kenton | 79.9 |
| 10. Ryle | 79.8 |
| 11. Pleasure Ridge Park | 76.5 |
| 12. Central Hardin | 76.4 |
| 13. Meade County | 75.7 |
| 14. George Rogers Clark | 73.3 |
| 15. Henderson County | 72.9 |
| 16. Great Crossing | 67.5 |
| 17. North Hardin | 67.1 |
| 18. Tates Creek | 65.3 |
| 19. Fern Creek | 64.7 |
| 20. Madison Central | 63.2 |
| 21. Campbell County | 62.5 |
| 22. McCracken County | 58.4 |
| 23. Daviess County | 56.7 |
| 24. Eastern | 55.5 |
| 25. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 48.9 |
| 26. Christian County | 48.8 |
| 27. Barren County | 47.3 |
| 28. Oldham County | 46.4 |
| 29. Henry Clay | 40.8 |
| 30. Warren Central | 36.1 |
| 31. Southern | 33.5 |
| 32. Lafayette | 26.2 |