I'm not concerned in the least bit. The metro areas already have schools with great athletics to overcome. In other areas, those schools would never get built because they would not get voted in OR the financing to get it built. It's not like putting a new restaurant in an empty commercial storefront. Schools and athletic facilities are much larger, more expensive and tougher to keep up to date and up to standards. This charter thing...

Nope. Geography still applies. Trinity vs. Bethlehem or KCD. Cov Cath vs. Brossart or Cov Holy Cross.

Yup. When private-hating folks in my Hardin County area try to argue boundaries, I point out several high-profile athletes at 5th Region PUBLIC schools who did NOT play at their home school, but rather at public schools in other counties. If being a private school is such a huge advantage, then Bardstown Bethlehem in the 5th Region and Christian Fellowship over in WKY are doing it way, way wrong since they are basically the only private...

Other games this weekend in which the team with the worse/losing record could beat a team with a winning record: Atherton (3-2) at Fern Creek (2-3) Franklin-Simpson (2-3) at Glasgow (4-1) Madison Southern (3-2) at Pulaski County (2-3)

Fwiw, Ashland is sixth by the MaxPreps computer, sixth by the CalPreps computer and ninth by the Herald-Leader computer. But they all take in OVERALL results and not how teams are playing CURRENTLY. Big difference. Second, overall record should NEVER be in the end-all, be-all when it comes to human-produced rankings. About 10 years ago, Trinity opened 0-4 because it was playing out of state powerhouses and some folks wanted the Rocks out of...

I am supposed to be in Orlando from Sept. 15-18. Looks like it should/could be out of the area by then. Disney is NOT waiving its $200 cancellation/changing fee until Orlando has officially been named as a warning location by the National Hurricane Center. So for now, we are planning on going and could luck out into having a less crowded park than we had planned. If Orlando gets tabbed, it is apply for a cancellation and pay for ANOTHER...

With tonight's 50-14 win over North Hardin, E'town has put up 50-plus in consecutive games for the first time in 13 seasons.

Per TheNESports (@thenesports) on Twitter PREP FOOTBALL: Elizabethtown won the toss And deferred. North Hardin to receive the opening kick. PREP FOOTBALL: Jay Becherer 60-yard run gives Elizabethtown a 7-0 lead over North Hardin, 9:52 1Q. PREP FOOTBALL: Eric Moore with a 20-yard pass to Josh Moore on 4th down. It's 7-7, 6:45 1Q. PREP FOOTBALL: 5 yard scramble by Tyler Durbin put Elizabethtown up, 14-7 against North Hardin, 4:14 1Q.

Trinity's statkeeper was NOT there today (first game he has missed in 25 years, from what I've heard). Here's a link to Moeller's stats, which has EVERYTHING from both teams: StatBroadcast Live Stat Feed

CAL blocks a punt and scores a few plays later. CAL 15 Central Hardin 0 Early 3q

13-0 Mayfield less than 2 minutes into 2nd quarter.

At the end of first quarter, Mayfield leads Tilghman, 6-0.

Wright TD pass from Carr in final 5 seconds of first half. XP good to give CAL a 7-0 halftime lead at Central Hardin.

Meade up 36-13, 2 min left before halftime.

Central Hardin didn't earn a first down until second quarter.

Meade up 30-13, still in 2nd quarter.

Meade scores on 2nd play of the game, leads 6-0. Shelby's Caleb Morehead answers with 64 yd TD run. SC 7, MC 6, 10:50 left in first quarter. Meade's Zach Babb with a 66 yd TD run pushes Meade ahead 14-7 with 9:12 left in first quarter. Shelby County's Kyion Stone with a TD, but conversion or XP fails. END OF 1Q, Meade leads 14-13.

Still scoreless entering second quarter.

Numbers 2/3/4/5 are private.

I like your optimism, Hardin County Preps, but I just can't get there. I think E'town is very, very good. But they're still not very big at all. State semis would be a big mountain to climb. Knocking off Corbin or Belfry or Central (that defense has been lights out) in the final would be Mount Everest. I would gladly eat crow if Elizabethtown were to pull it off, especially when a team with three eventual SEC starters couldn't do it...

If it is OK for the AP to have South Warren in two polls at one time, might as well let Boyle do it if they beat Wayne and Collins.

It's a rivalry game, but it is not Game of the Week level. Lots of folks will be shocked if Holy Cross keeps it within 2 TDs.

My apologies to the Generals. You are definitely correct. They have been good. The other six have had some less than stellar performances, though.

Not disagreeing with the burden part. Done enough of all-area votes to learn that.

The preseason vote, as far as I know, was not checking boxes. It is fill in the blank for teams in your own class. Some voting coaches didn't know that Moore or South Warren had either left or arrived. AP still had them listed as a drop-down option. That is far worse, but some human coaches were out of the loop.

That magic number can be screwy. John Hardin's magic number as good and they haven't delivered at all. The Douglass Broncos' magic number was the worst in 6A, IIRC, and there is no way they will end up that way.

I think the BGP rankings are pretty solid for most classes (we will see if Elizabethtown makes the final out of 3A west, though, as Boyle has been impressive). CalPreps, like Maher in soccer, gets better as the season goes on. Late in the year, computer rankings are pretty on point. Granted today's AP blunder was bad, but as Josh Moore pointed out, the COACHES themselves had Moore and South Warren in the wrong classes when they submitted...