Score predictions for 3rd round of Kentucky high school football playoffs
Only 48 teams remain in the Kentucky high school football playoffs. Six schools are just three more wins away from taking home one of the six state championship trophies. Third-round postseason action begins tonight across the Bluegrass.
22 of KSR’s Top 25 teams are still alive at this point, including all of the Top 13. A total of four Top 25 matchups are on the slate for tonight, including the KSR Game of the Week between No. 25 Madison Central and No. 8 Frederick Douglass. We should be in for a thrilling evening of football from start to finish.
As we gear up for the third round of the postseason, we’re predicting the score for every single game on tonight’s docket. Using the Massey Ratings — a system created in 1999 by statistician Kenneth Massey that was used to help determine the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) until 2013 — we are able to plug every high school team across the state into a tool that will predict the final outcome of any given matchup.
For more information on the Massey Ratings and how it works, click here.
Below, we have included score predictions for all 24 third-round games. Click the link here to find your school’s team page.
Friday, November 22
*RV indicates a team receiving votes in KSR’s Playoffs Round One Top 25 Rankings*
| TIME (LOCAL) | MATCHUP | MASSEY PREDICTION |
| 7:30 PM | No. 9 Ashland Blazer @ No. 12 Corbin | 4A | 42-21 (Corbin) |
| 7:00 PM | Atherton @ No. 15 Bowling Green | 5A | 42-6 (Bowling Green) |
| 7:30 PM | Ballard @ No. 4 Trinity | 6A | 38-6 (Trinity) |
| 7:30 PM | Bardstown @ No. 5 Franklin County | 4A | 47-12 (Franklin County) |
| 7:00 PM | Barren County @ No. 21 Great Crossing | 6A | 42-14 (Great Crossing) |
| 7:30 PM | No. 16 Central @ No. 18 Christian Academy-Louisville | 3A | 38-21 (Christian Academy-Louisville) |
| 7:00 PM | Central Hardin @ No. 6 Ryle | 6A | 44-7 (Ryle) |
| 7:00 PM | No. 20 Covington Catholic @ No. 1 Boyle County | 4A | 42-14 (Boyle County) |
| 7:00 PM | DeSales @ No. 2 Paducah Tilghman | 4A | 42-6 (Paducah Tilghman) |
| 7:30 PM | Hazard @ Raceland | 1A | 37-14 (Raceland) |
| 7:30 PM | Lexington Catholic @ (RV) Bell County | 3A | 36-23 (Lexington Catholic) |
| 6:00 PM | No. 11 Lexington Christian Academy @ Mayfield | 2A | 35-32 (Lexington Christian Academy) |
| 7:00 PM | No. 25 Madison Central @ No. 8 Frederick Douglass | 6A | 38-7 (Frederick Douglass) |
| 7:00 PM | Martin County @ No. 22 Beechwood | 2A | 45-7 (Beechwood) |
| 7:30 PM | Newport @ Kentucky Country Day | 1A | 36-12 (Kentucky Country Day) |
| 7:00 PM | Newport Central Catholic @ Campbellsville | 1A | 34-14 (Newport Central Catholic) |
| 7:00 PM | North Bullitt @ No. 10 South Warren | 5A | 48-6 (South Warren) |
| 7:00 PM (at Steele Stadium) | No. 7 Owensboro Catholic @ Monroe County | 2A | 47-7 (Owensboro Catholic) |
| 7:00 PM | Pikeville @ No. 25 Sayre | 1A | 34-20 (Pikeville) |
| 7:30 PM | Pulaski County @ No. 13 Highlands | 5A | 42-13 (Highlands) |
| 7:30 PM | Russell @ (RV) Belfry | 3A | 42-12 (Belfry) |
| 7:30 PM | Somerset @ Prestonsburg | 2A | 40-7 (Somerset) |
| 7:30 PM | Southwestern @ No. 3 Cooper | 5A | 42-10 (Cooper) |
| 7:00 PM | Union County (RV) @ No. 23 Hart County | 3A | 27-24 (Hart County) |
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