The best 8 teams in the state who would you have? I think Lou St.x, Male, Trinity, Manuel, Bowling Green, Mayfeild, Belfy, and number 8 ??

That last team, to my mind, might just be Pleasure Ridge Park. Gave Trinity, St. X and Manual everything they could handle, and a severe loss to Male aside, they've dominated everyone else on their schedule.

My top 8 in the entire state are, in rough order:

 

Trinity

Bowling Green

St. Xavier

Male

Simon Kenton

Ryle

Johnson Central

Belfry

My top 8 in the entire state are, in rough order:

 

Trinity

Bowling Green

St. Xavier

Male

Simon Kenton

Ryle

Johnson Central

Belfry

I think you have dead on and I can't make much of an argument for any movement at all. Might consider flipping Simon and Ryle, but we will know Friday night about that.

 

That would be a fun playoff. The bottom 4 would might be able to compete with each other but would have no shot against the top 4.

Edited October 19, 20169 yr by Watusi

My top 8 in the entire state are, in rough order:

 

Trinity

Bowling Green

St. Xavier

Male

Simon Kenton

Ryle

Johnson Central

Belfry

 

I think you have dead on and I can't make much of an argument for any movement at all. Might consider flipping Simon and Ryle, but we will know Friday night about that.

 

That would be a fun playoff. The bottom 4 would might be able to compete with each other but would have no shot against the top 4.

 

Yeah, I think 1-4 can all compete with each other. I think 5-6 can compete with 3-4 and maybe 2. I think 7-8 can compete with 5-6 but nothing higher.

Earlier in the season, St X would have been more vulnerable to those below, but not now. They are playing very good football.

Lafayette or Scott County hard to over look. Need to do this for 1-3 A and 4-6 A.

Lafayette or Scott County hard to over look. Need to do this for 1-3 A and 4-6 A.

Both are legit teams.

 

If you can only choose 8 from 1A - 6A, what would your 8 teams be?

1. Trinity

2. Bowling Green

3. St. X

4. Male

5. Belfry

6. Lafayette

7. Scott County

8. Simon Kenton

Lafayette or Scott County hard to over look. Need to do this for 1-3 A and 4-6 A.

 

Was going to mention Scott Co. myself. Lafayette way too inconsistent against good comp in my opinion.

Trinity

Bowling Green

Simon Kenton

Ryle

X

Johnson Central

Belfry

Lafayette

Lafayette or Scott County hard to over look. Need to do this for 1-3 A and 4-6 A.

 

Scott County was right on the edge for me. Lafayette is just behind Scott County, in my opinion. Both could very realistically be in the top eight.

Lafayette is talented, but--and nothing personally against them--wouldn't losing by 38 at home to one of the teams on this list disqualify them from such a list?

One loss isn't knocking someone out of an 8 team playoff. It doesn't even automatically knock colleges out of a 4 team playoff. Who they lost to has an opposite effect on me as well. They didn't lose to Ohio county.

One loss isn't knocking someone out of an 8 team playoff. It doesn't even automatically knock colleges out of a 4 team playoff. Who they lost to has an opposite effect on me as well. They didn't lose to Ohio county.

 

Okay...I see your point. And I would say they belong in a group of the best 8 regardless of one loss IF they were certainly one of the best 8. My question is, losing to anyone, even as good a team as Trinity (who won by only 19 at PRP the following week) by so much at home--and also a shootout win against a not-very-impressive Bryan Station, are there really not 7 teams better in this state?

 

There may not be, but I'd have to say these are definitely above them:

* T

* BG

* Male

* X

* SK

* Ryle

 

...after that, I can't really put Belfry there due to their one loss--granted to an out-of-state team I know nothing about, but the margin makes me wonder how they'd stack up against Ky's best 6A teams.

 

Got to consider Johnson Central if for no other reason their Defense looks to be really good...almost all blowout wins where opponent scored once -- that usually means someone's varsity offense scored on their JV near the end. The knock on them though is that schedule (though I seem to remember Capital, WV is traditionally pretty good and they beat them pretty convincingly).

 

Manual probably belongs--will know for sure if they either beat or play Male tough.

 

PRP has nice talent, good coaching, etc, but what I saw in 2nd half against Male was troubling when it comes to considering them for a 'top 8 in the state.'

 

...and, by the way, I do think in the college playoff system if a very good team who has been ranked high all year gets blown out at home by Alabama, that would probably knock them out of the college playoff when comparing them with the other teams with only 1 non-blowout loss.