High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 7 (Oct. 1)
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | Last week |
| 1. Boyle County (6-0) | 92.5 | 1 |
| 2. Corbin (6-0) | 92.4 | 3 |
| 3. Male (5-1) | 92.1 | 2 |
| 4. Frederick Douglass (2-3) | 91.7 | 4 |
| 5. Trinity (4-3) | 91.0 | 5 |
| 6. Christian Academy-Louisville (6-1) | 88.6 | 6 |
| 6. Highlands (6-1) | 88.6 | 7 |
| 8. Ballard (4-2) | 87.0 | 10 |
| 9. St. Xavier (4-2) | 86.8 | 12 |
| 10. Manual (5-1) | 86.5 | 11 |
| 11. Covington Catholic (7-0) | 86.0 | t8 |
| 12. South Warren (5-1) | 85.7 | 13 |
| 13. Scott County (6-1) | 85.4 | t8 |
| 14. Bryan Station (4-2) | 85.1 | 16 |
| 15. Owensboro Catholic (7-0) | 84.8 | 14 |
| 16. Bowling Green (5-2) | 84.6 | 19 |
| 17. Beechwood (6-1) | 83.9 | 17 |
| 18. Franklin County (6-0) | 83.8 | t20 |
| 18. Lexington Christian (6-1) | 83.8 | 15 |
| 18. Lexington Catholic (2-4) | 83.8 | 18 |
| 21. Paducah Tilghman (7-0) | 83.7 | 23 |
| 22. Mayfield (5-1) | 83.1 | t20 |
| 23. Owensboro (4-3) | 82.6 | 22 |
| 24. Cooper (5-2) | 82.4 | t25 |
| 25. Central (3-4) | 82.1 | NR |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | Rating |
| 1. Pikeville | 81.6 |
| 2. Raceland | 78.4 |
| 3. Campbellsville | 62.5 |
| 4. Paris | 57.3 |
| 5. Kentucky Country Day | 56.3 |
| 6. Newport Central Catholic | 53.9 |
| 7. Bethlehem | 49.0 |
| 8. Sayre | 47.8 |
| 9. Louisville Holy Cross | 42.4 |
| 10. Middlesboro | 41.6 |
| 11. Hazard | 40.9 |
| 12. Newport | 40.0 |
| 13. Williamsburg | 37.5 |
| 14. Bishop Brossart | 29.0 |
| 14. Paintsville | 29.0 |
| 16. Ludlow | 23.3 |
| 17. Russellville | 20.4 |
| 18. Frankfort | 20.3 |
| 19. Harlan | 19.8 |
| 20. Covington Holy Cross | 19.4 |
| 21. Eminence | 19.0 |
| 22. Nicholas County | 18.4 |
| 23. Dayton | 16.4 |
| 24. Caverna | 14.5 |
| 25. Pineville | 13.8 |
| 26. Trimble County | 5.3 |
| 27. Lynn Camp | 3.3 |
| 28. Fulton County | 0.5 |
| 29. Bellevue | 0.4 |
| 30. Ballard Memorial | 0.1 |
| 30. Berea | 0.1 |
| 30. Fairview | 0.1 |
| 30. Jenkins | 0.1 |
| 30. Phelps | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Owensboro Catholic | 84.8 |
| 2. Beechwood | 83.9 |
| 3. Lexington Christian | 83.8 |
| 4. Mayfield | 83.1 |
| 5. Green County | 53.9 |
| 6. Somerset | 53.7 |
| 7. Murray | 50.0 |
| 8. Shelby Valley | 49.8 |
| 9. Breathitt County | 48.2 |
| 10. Crittenden County | 45.7 |
| 11. Danville | 41.8 |
| 12. Martin County | 38.8 |
| 13. Bracken County | 36.0 |
| 14. Metcalfe County | 35.7 |
| 15. Betsy Layne | 34.6 |
| 16. Washington County | 34.5 |
| 17. Carroll County | 33.1 |
| 18. Monroe County | 33.0 |
| 19. Walton-Verona | 32.6 |
| 20. Leslie County | 31.7 |
| 21. Caldwell County | 30.1 |
| 22. Pike Central | 25.7 |
| 22. Todd Central | 25.7 |
| 24. Prestonsburg | 23.5 |
| 25. Fort Campbell | 20.8 |
| 26. Floyd Central | 19.1 |
| 27. East Ridge | 14.5 |
| 28. W.E.B. DuBois | 13.9 |
| 29. Gallatin County | 13.7 |
| 29. Morgan County | 13.7 |
| 31. Clinton County | 13.5 |
| 32. Owen County | 9.5 |
| 33. Edmonson County | 7.4 |
| 33. Shawnee | 7.4 |
| 35. Fort Knox | 4.1 |
| 36. Knott Central | 2.4 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 88.6 |
| 2. Lexington Catholic | 83.8 |
| 3. Central | 82.1 |
| 4. Lloyd | 71.3 |
| 5. Union County | 68.2 |
| 6. Mercer County | 68.0 |
| 7. Bell County | 67.3 |
| 8. Belfry | 66.7 |
| 9. Glasgow | 62.6 |
| 10. Franklin-Simpson | 61.1 |
| 11. Hart County | 61.0 |
| 12. Lawrence County | 57.1 |
| 13. Rockcastle County | 56.3 |
| 14. Elizabethtown | 53.7 |
| 15. Clay County | 50.5 |
| 16. Russell | 49.6 |
| 17. East Carter | 48.7 |
| 18. Adair County | 46.8 |
| 19. Fleming County | 46.4 |
| 20. McLean County | 42.9 |
| 21. Hancock County | 41.9 |
| 22. Casey County | 41.7 |
| 23. Knox Central | 37.9 |
| 24. Webster County | 36.5 |
| 25. LaRue County | 35.4 |
| 26. Hopkins Central | 34.7 |
| 27. Estill County | 33.8 |
| 28. Garrard County | 32.2 |
| 29. Trigg County | 30.8 |
| 30. West Carter | 25.6 |
| 31. Marion County | 23.9 |
| 32. Butler County | 23.2 |
| 33. Magoffin County | 20.2 |
| 34. Bourbon County | 20.0 |
| 35. Jackson County | 17.5 |
| 36. Lewis County | 14.6 |
| 37. Powell County | 11.7 |
| 38. McCreary Central | 9.2 |
| 39. Bath County | 1.4 |
| 40. Pendleton County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Boyle County | 92.5 |
| 2. Corbin | 92.4 |
| 3. Covington Catholic | 86.0 |
| 4. Franklin County | 83.8 |
| 5. Paducah Tilghman | 83.7 |
| 6. Ashland Blazer | 81.2 |
| 7. Johnson Central | 76.0 |
| 8. Taylor County | 65.5 |
| 9. Logan County | 65.1 |
| 10. Warren East | 64.6 |
| 11. Letcher Central | 64.3 |
| 12. Bardstown | 62.3 |
| 13. Spencer County | 56.9 |
| 14. Mason County | 56.3 |
| 14. Whitley County | 56.3 |
| 16. Boyd County | 55.7 |
| 17. Henry County | 55.2 |
| 18. Hopkinsville | 53.8 |
| 19. Lincoln County | 51.3 |
| 19. North Oldham | 51.3 |
| 21. Wayne County | 49.4 |
| 22. Shelby County | 48.9 |
| 23. Perry Central | 48.6 |
| 24. Greenup County | 48.2 |
| 25. Allen County | 45.9 |
| 26. Nelson County | 45.4 |
| 27. DeSales | 45.1 |
| 28. John Hardin | 40.3 |
| 29. Rowan County | 32.9 |
| 30. Harrison County | 31.7 |
| 31. Western Hills | 28.9 |
| 32. Jeffersontown | 27.3 |
| 33. Calloway County | 25.9 |
| 34. Russell County | 24.0 |
| 35. Western | 23.0 |
| 36. Grant County | 21.2 |
| 37. Holmes | 20.2 |
| 38. Doss | 14.4 |
| 39. Breckinridge County | 10.2 |
| 40. Waggener | 8.5 |
| 41. Thomas Nelson | 5.3 |
| 42. Valley | 2.5 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Highlands | 88.6 |
| 2. South Warren | 85.7 |
| 3. Scott County | 85.4 |
| 4. Bowling Green | 84.6 |
| 5. Owensboro | 82.6 |
| 6. Cooper | 82.4 |
| 7. Southwestern | 81.1 |
| 8. Woodford County | 81.0 |
| 9. South Oldham | 74.8 |
| 10. Greenwood | 72.4 |
| 11. Dixie Heights | 71.4 |
| 12. Pulaski County | 69.4 |
| 13. North Laurel | 67.4 |
| 14. Collins | 65.6 |
| 15. Graves County | 60.6 |
| 16. Conner | 60.1 |
| 17. Madisonville | 59.1 |
| 18. Fairdale | 58.0 |
| 19. Madison Southern | 55.2 |
| 20. Atherton | 54.5 |
| 21. Butler | 50.0 |
| 22. Grayson County | 44.8 |
| 23. West Jessamine | 43.2 |
| 24. Apollo | 42.9 |
| 25. Seneca | 41.6 |
| 26. Montgomery County | 40.1 |
| 27. Harlan County | 36.1 |
| 28. Boone County | 35.4 |
| 29. Scott High | 32.0 |
| 30. North Bullitt | 31.4 |
| 31. Bullitt Central | 28.1 |
| 32. South Laurel | 27.8 |
| 33. East Jessamine | 27.6 |
| 34. Marshall County | 26.2 |
| 35. Moore | 25.1 |
| 36. Anderson County | 21.8 |
| 37. Ohio County | 15.6 |
| 38. Muhlenberg County | 10.0 |
| 39. Iroquois | 0.9 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. Male | 92.1 |
| 2. Frederick Douglass | 91.7 |
| 3. Trinity | 91.0 |
| 4. Ballard | 87.0 |
| 5. St. Xavier | 86.8 |
| 6. Manual | 86.5 |
| 7. Bryan Station | 85.1 |
| 8. Bullitt East | 81.5 |
| 9. Simon Kenton | 79.9 |
| 10. Ryle | 79.0 |
| 11. Pleasure Ridge Park | 77.2 |
| 12. Central Hardin | 76.6 |
| 13. Meade County | 75.5 |
| 14. George Rogers Clark | 73.3 |
| 15. Henderson County | 72.9 |
| 16. Great Crossing | 67.5 |
| 17. North Hardin | 67.0 |
| 18. Tates Creek | 66.1 |
| 19. Madison Central | 65.7 |
| 20. Fern Creek | 63.3 |
| 21. Campbell County | 62.5 |
| 22. McCracken County | 58.4 |
| 23. Daviess County | 56.7 |
| 24. Eastern | 53.5 |
| 25. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 48.2 |
| 26. Barren County | 47.5 |
| 27. Christian County | 47.1 |
| 28. Oldham County | 46.4 |
| 29. Henry Clay | 40.0 |
| 30. Warren Central | 36.0 |
| 31. Southern | 32.8 |
| 32. Lafayette | 26.2 |