KSR’s 2024 Kentucky High School Football Top 25 Rankings: Playoffs Rd. 2

The 2024 Kentucky high school football playoffs continue to heat up. Second-round action last Friday saw plenty of upsets as a handful of ranked teams were knocked out of the postseason. Round three should be even more exciting.

As we keep the journey to Kroger Field rolling, it’s time for another statewide rankings update. There was a ton of movement in the latest KSR’s Top 25 rankings. Boyle County and Paducah Tilghman hold down the top two spots respectively but 12 teams moved up while three cracked the Top 25 after being unranked this time last week. Three eliminated teams — all from Class 6A — remain in the Top 25, but all saw significant drops in their standing.

We’ve also included a new batch of class-by-class rankings below the statewide Top 25. All six classes have eight teams left in the bracket. Our panel of 10 voters ranked all eight of those teams from each class. Only 48 schools are alive with three more rounds left to play.

Check out the entirety of KSR’s Top 25 below. For a full schedule of what’s on tap this Friday for the third round of the playoffs, click here. 

KSR’s Top 25 Rankings: Playoffs Rd. 2

1. Boyle County [10 first-place votes]
2. Paducah Tilghman
3. Cooper (+2)
4. Trinity
5. Franklin County (+1)
6. Ryle (+4)
7. Owensboro Catholic
8. Frederick Douglass (+1)
9. Ashland Blazer (+3)
10. South Warren (+1)
11. Lexington Christian Academy (+3)
12. Corbin (+4)
13. Highlands (+4)
14. DuPont Manual ELIMINATED (-11)
15. Bowling Green
16. Central (+2)
17. St. Xavier ELIMINATED (-4)
18. Christian Academy-Louisville (+2)
19. Male ELIMINATED (-11)
20. Covington Catholic (-1)
21. Great Crossing (NR)
22. Beechwood (+1)
23. Hart County (-2)
24. Madison Central (NR)
25. Sayre (NR)

Others receiving votes: Woodford County (9; ELIMINATED), Belfry (6), Bell County (4), Union County (4), Owensboro (2; ELIMINATED), Johnson Central (1; ELIMINATED)

KSR Top 25 voters: Jimmy Clarkston, Jalen Daugherty, Vic Evans, Daniel Hager, Clark Howell, Troy Howell, Spencer Hutchison, Scott Ratliff, Stephen Turner, Phoenix Stevens

Top 8 remaining teams by Class

CLASS A

1. Sayre (No. 25)
2. Pikeville
3. Raceland
4. Kentucky Country Day
5. Campbellsville
6. Newport Central Catholic
7. Hazard
8. Newport

CLASS 2A

1. Owensboro Catholic (No. 7)
2. Lexington Christian Academy (No. 11)
3. Beechwood (No. 21)
4. Mayfield
5. Prestonsburg
6. Somerset
7. Martin County
8. Monroe County

CLASS 3A

1. Central (No. 16)
2. Christian Academy-Louisville (No. 18)
3. Hart County (No. 23)
4. Belfry (RV)
5. Bell County (RV)
6. Union County (RV)
7. Lexington Catholic
8. Russell

CLASS 4A

1. Boyle County (No. 1)
2. Paducah Tilghman (No. 2)
3. Franklin County (No. 5)
4. Ashland Blazer (No. 9)
5. Corbin (No. 12)
6. Covington Catholic (No. 20)
7. Bardstown
8. DeSales

CLASS 5A

1. Cooper (No. 3)
2. South Warren (No. 10)
3. Highlands (No. 13)
4. Bowling Green (No. 15)
5. Pulaski County
6. Atherton
7. Southwestern
8. North Bullitt

CLASS 6A

1. Trinity (No. 4)
2. Ryle (No. 6)
3. Frederick Douglass (No. 8)
4. Great Crossing (No. 21)
5. Madison Central (No. 24)
6. Ballard
7. Barren County
8. Central Hardin