High school football: Dave Cantrall’s top 25 teams through Week 10 (Oct. 22)
Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State
| TOP 25 | Rating | Last week |
| 1. Frederick Douglass (5-3) | 93.5 | 1 |
| 2. Male (8-1) | 93.0 | 4 |
| 3. Corbin (9-0) | 92.7 | t2 |
| 4. Trinity (7-3) | 91.8 | t2 |
| 5. St. Xavier (6-3) | 90.3 | 9 |
| 6. Boyle County (9-0) | 90.0 | 5 |
| 7. Christian Academy-Louisville (8-1) | 89.1 | 7 |
| 8. Highlands (9-1) | 88.3 | 6 |
| 9. Scott County (8-1) | 88.2 | 8 |
| 10. Manual (8-1) | 88.0 | 10 |
| 11. Bryan Station (6-3) | 87.7 | 11 |
| 12. Bowling Green (7-2) | 86.5 | t14 |
| 13. Ballard (6-3) | 86.2 | 12 |
| 14. Covington Catholic (9-0) | 86.0 | 13 |
| 15. Paducah Tilghman (9-0) | 85.3 | t14 |
| 16. Franklin County (9-1) | 83.9 | t16 |
| 17. Lexington Catholic (5-4) | 83.7 | t21 |
| 18. Mayfield (7-1) | 83.5 | 20 |
| 19. Beechwood (9-1) | 83.0 | 19 |
| 20. Lexington Christian (8-1) | 82.6 | t21 |
| 21. Cooper (8-2) | 82.3 | 24 |
| 21. Central (4-5) | 82.3 | 23 |
| 23. South Warren (7-2) | 82.2 | 18 |
| 24. Owensboro Catholic (9-0) | 82.1 | t21 |
| 25. Southwestern (6-3) | 81.5 | NR |
Ratings by class
| CLASS A | Rating |
| 1. Pikeville | 80.8 |
| 2. Raceland | 76.3 |
| 3. Campbellsville | 65.0 |
| 4. Kentucky Country Day | 55.8 |
| 5. Paris | 53.7 |
| 6. Newport Central Catholic | 53.1 |
| 7. Sayre | 47.1 |
| 8. Bethlehem | 45.8 |
| 8. Middlesboro | 45.8 |
| 10. Louisville Holy Cross | 43.8 |
| 11. Newport | 40.7 |
| 12. Hazard | 38.7 |
| 13. Williamsburg | 35.8 |
| 14. Paintsville | 32.8 |
| 15. Ludlow | 29.1 |
| 16. Bishop Brossart | 27.9 |
| 17. Frankfort | 22.3 |
| 18. Eminence | 22.0 |
| 19. Nicholas County | 20.8 |
| 20. Russellville | 19.9 |
| 21. Caverna | 19.3 |
| 22. Harlan | 18.7 |
| 23. Covington Holy Cross | 17.8 |
| 24. Dayton | 15.0 |
| 25. Pineville | 11.5 |
| 26. Fairview | 5.5 |
| 27. Bellevue | 1.7 |
| 28. Lynn Camp | 0.9 |
| 29. Ballard Memorial | 0.1 |
| 29. Berea | 0.1 |
| 29. Fulton County | 0.1 |
| 29. Jenkins | 0.1 |
| 29. Phelps | 0.1 |
| 29. Trimble County | 0.1 |
| CLASS 2A | |
| 1. Mayfield | 83.5 |
| 2. Beechwood | 83.0 |
| 3. Lexington Christian | 82.6 |
| 4. Owensboro Catholic | 82.1 |
| 5. Somerset | 57.0 |
| 6. Green County | 55.8 |
| 7. Shelby Valley | 53.2 |
| 8. Breathitt County | 53.0 |
| 9. Murray | 50.3 |
| 10. Crittenden County | 46.6 |
| 11. Martin County | 41.2 |
| 12. Washington County | 37.5 |
| 13. Metcalfe County | 35.6 |
| 14. Carroll County | 33.6 |
| 14. Danville | 33.6 |
| 16. Betsy Layne | 33.0 |
| 17. Bracken County | 32.4 |
| 18. Monroe County | 32.0 |
| 19. Walton-Verona | 31.2 |
| 20. Leslie County | 31.1 |
| 21. Caldwell County | 28.9 |
| 22. Fort Campbell | 23.8 |
| 23. Todd Central | 23.6 |
| 24. Prestonsburg | 22.1 |
| 25. Pike Central | 20.5 |
| 26. Floyd Central | 18.4 |
| 27. Morgan County | 15.9 |
| 28. East Ridge | 15.7 |
| 29. W.E.B. DuBois | 15.5 |
| 30. Gallatin County | 14.4 |
| 31. Owen County | 12.6 |
| 32. Edmonson County | 10.7 |
| 33. Clinton County | 9.3 |
| 34. Shawnee | 6.1 |
| 35. Fort Knox | 0.8 |
| 36. Knott Central | 0.1 |
| CLASS 3A | |
| 1. Christian Academy-Louisville | 89.1 |
| 2. Lexington Catholic | 83.7 |
| 3. Central | 82.3 |
| 4. Union County | 68.6 |
| 5. Bell County | 67.3 |
| 6. Mercer County | 66.8 |
| 7. Belfry | 66.3 |
| 8. Lloyd | 66.0 |
| 9. Glasgow | 63.0 |
| 10. Hart County | 62.8 |
| 11. Franklin-Simpson | 60.5 |
| 12. Rockcastle County | 57.6 |
| 13. Lawrence County | 54.0 |
| 14. Elizabethtown | 52.2 |
| 15. East Carter | 49.9 |
| 16. Fleming County | 46.5 |
| 17. Adair County | 46.2 |
| 18. Russell | 45.9 |
| 19. Clay County | 45.6 |
| 19. McLean County | 45.6 |
| 21. Hancock County | 42.4 |
| 22. Casey County | 41.8 |
| 23. Knox Central | 37.8 |
| 24. LaRue County | 36.9 |
| 25. Hopkins Central | 36.1 |
| 26. Webster County | 35.3 |
| 27. Garrard County | 34.4 |
| 28. Estill County | 27.7 |
| 28. West Carter | 27.7 |
| 30. Trigg County | 26.1 |
| 31. Magoffin County | 24.6 |
| 32. Bourbon County | 22.4 |
| 33. Marion County | 22.2 |
| 34. Butler County | 21.8 |
| 35. Jackson County | 18.9 |
| 36. Powell County | 14.2 |
| 37. McCreary Central | 12.2 |
| 38. Lewis County | 11.8 |
| 39. Pendleton County | 2.7 |
| 40. Bath County | 1.3 |
| CLASS 4A | |
| 1. Corbin | 92.7 |
| 2. Boyle County | 90.0 |
| 3. Covington Catholic | 86.0 |
| 4. Paducah Tilghman | 85.3 |
| 5. Franklin County | 83.9 |
| 6. Ashland Blazer | 80.2 |
| 7. Johnson Central | 77.0 |
| 8. Taylor County | 68.1 |
| 9. Logan County | 67.6 |
| 10. Bardstown | 66.0 |
| 11. Letcher Central | 62.4 |
| 12. Warren East | 59.0 |
| 13. Mason County | 57.9 |
| 14. Whitley County | 57.7 |
| 15. Boyd County | 57.4 |
| 16. Henry County | 56.6 |
| 17. Spencer County | 55.6 |
| 18. Hopkinsville | 53.2 |
| 19. Lincoln County | 51.6 |
| 20. Wayne County | 51.2 |
| 21. Greenup County | 51.0 |
| 21. Shelby County | 51.0 |
| 23. Perry Central | 50.4 |
| 24. North Oldham | 50.1 |
| 25. Allen County | 47.6 |
| 26. DeSales | 44.6 |
| 27. Nelson County | 43.4 |
| 28. John Hardin | 38.6 |
| 29. Harrison County | 35.2 |
| 30. Rowan County | 30.3 |
| 31. Jeffersontown | 29.0 |
| 32. Western Hills | 28.7 |
| 33. Russell County | 27.5 |
| 34. Calloway County | 25.5 |
| 35. Western | 23.2 |
| 36. Grant County | 19.2 |
| 37. Doss | 14.5 |
| 38. Holmes | 13.4 |
| 39. Breckinridge County | 8.9 |
| 40. Thomas Nelson | 7.1 |
| 41. Waggener | 5.6 |
| 42. Valley | 0.3 |
| CLASS 5A | |
| 1. Highlands | 88.3 |
| 2. Scott County | 88.2 |
| 3. Bowling Green | 86.5 |
| 4. Cooper | 82.3 |
| 5. South Warren | 82.2 |
| 6. Southwestern | 81.5 |
| 7. Woodford County | 79.2 |
| 8. Owensboro | 76.8 |
| 9. Dixie Heights | 75.8 |
| 10. South Oldham | 71.6 |
| 11. Greenwood | 71.2 |
| 12. Pulaski County | 69.3 |
| 13. North Laurel | 66.4 |
| 14. Collins | 65.6 |
| 15. Madisonville | 64.5 |
| 16. Graves County | 60.6 |
| 17. Conner | 57.8 |
| 18. Fairdale | 57.6 |
| 19. Madison Southern | 57.4 |
| 20. Atherton | 55.7 |
| 21. Grayson County | 47.8 |
| 22. Butler | 45.7 |
| 23. Seneca | 43.1 |
| 24. Apollo | 41.5 |
| 25. West Jessamine | 39.8 |
| 26. Montgomery County | 39.3 |
| 27. Boone County | 36.4 |
| 28. Harlan County | 35.4 |
| 29. Scott High | 32.4 |
| 30. North Bullitt | 32.3 |
| 31. Moore | 29.6 |
| 32. East Jessamine | 29.4 |
| 33. South Laurel | 27.7 |
| 34. Marshall County | 24.0 |
| 35. Anderson County | 23.1 |
| 36. Bullitt Central | 22.9 |
| 37. Ohio County | 17.8 |
| 38. Muhlenberg County | 13.2 |
| 39. Iroquois | 3.8 |
| CLASS 6A | |
| 1. Frederick Douglass | 93.5 |
| 2. Male | 93.0 |
| 3. Trinity | 91.8 |
| 4. St. Xavier | 90.3 |
| 5. Manual | 88.0 |
| 6. Bryan Station | 87.7 |
| 7. Ballard | 86.2 |
| 8. Ryle | 80.1 |
| 9. Bullitt East | 79.5 |
| 10. Simon Kenton | 78.8 |
| 11. Henderson County | 77.6 |
| 12. Central Hardin | 76.9 |
| 13. Pleasure Ridge Park | 73.7 |
| 14. Meade County | 72.4 |
| 15. North Hardin | 69.3 |
| 16. George Rogers Clark | 68.6 |
| 17. Campbell County | 66.3 |
| 18. Great Crossing | 65.5 |
| 19. Tates Creek | 65.4 |
| 20. Fern Creek | 65.2 |
| 20. Madison Central | 65.2 |
| 22. Daviess County | 56.5 |
| 23. McCracken County | 56.2 |
| 24. Oldham County | 51.5 |
| 25. Eastern | 51.0 |
| 26. Paul Laurence Dunbar | 48.9 |
| 27. Barren County | 48.2 |
| 28. Christian County | 45.7 |
| 29. Southern | 35.0 |
| 30. Warren Central | 33.0 |
| 31. Lafayette | 32.9 |
| 32. Henry Clay | 32.7 |