2024 Lexington/Central Kentucky Preseason Power Rankings

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

For those a little less familiar with power rankings, the idea behind them is to hypothetically pit every team from a group (here it's Central KY) against every other team in the group, regardless of size or classification. You form your rankings by saying if you took every single team in the group, in that snapshot of a moment, and if you were able to have each team play each other team right then, then which team would prove to be the best by wins, and so on down the line.

So now that we're just over 4 weeks away from football season kicking off, what are you thinking in terms of preseason power rankings for the 39 football teams in Central Kentucky? What's your Top 10 look like? ...or if you want to make things a little more interesting, since we know virtually everyone will have Boyle, Douglass and Scott County in their top 3, who would you rank as your #4 through #13 teams?

5A Anderson County
1A Berea
3A Bourbon County
4A Boyle County
6A Bryan Station
3A Casey County
2A Clinton County
2A Danville
5A East Jessamine
1A Frankfort
4A Franklin County
6A Frederick Douglass
3A Garrard County
6A George Rogers Clark
6A Great Crossing
4A Harrison County
6A Henry Clay
1A Paris
6A Lafayette
3A LaRue County
3A Lexington Catholic
2A Lexington Christian Academy
4A Lincoln County
6A Madison Central
5A Madison Southern
3A Marion County
5A Montgomery County
3A Mercer County
1A Nicholas County
6A Paul Laurence Dunbar
4A Russell County
5A Scott County
4A Taylor County
6A Tates Creek
2A Washington County
4A Wayne County
5A West Jessamine
4A Western Hills
5A Woodford County

[BEChargers]

Scott County didn't make it out of the 2nd round last year.  Not sure I would put them top 3 personally.  But I guess that's the purpose of the thread.  

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

1 hour ago, BEChargers said:

Scott County didn't make it out of the 2nd round last year.  Not sure I would put them top 3 personally.  But I guess that's the purpose of the thread.  

Scott County's offense returns their starting QB, their entire offensive line, their top 2 wide receivers, and although they graduated their top three RBs, they were kind of a "running back by committee" type of offense last year, with ten different guys with 10+ rush attempts. Honestly, if you look at average yards per carry from last year's three top running backs who all graduated (Jacob Fryman 6.1 ypc, Thomas Feickert 9.3 ypc, Ellis Huguely 9.0 ypc), the next 4 guys in line, who are all returning, quite frankly offer more potential yardage carrying the ball: Timmy Emongo 19.1 ypc, Kayne Garrett 7.25 ypc, Buddy Collins 17.3 ypc, Donovan Meeks 7.6 ypc.

Timmy Emongo was a 5'10" 180lb freshman last year and ran the ball 20 times for total 382 yards and 5 touchdowns. Dude was getting nearly 20 yards every time he ran the ball, and was scoring a touchdown 1 in 4 times that he ran it. He already has offers from EKU, Kent State and Miami, OH. Then Buddy Collins, who's given a verbal commitment to Navy, was very similar to Emongo, with 15 carries for 260 yards and 4 touchdowns. So again, basically he pumped out 17.3 yards every time he carried the ball and had a touchdown 1 in 4 times he ran it.

The Scott County offense has the potential to be downright scary in 2024. And their defense returns 6 of 11 starters, so they're not looking too bad on defense either.

[Unrivaled97]

1 hour ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Scott County's offense returns their starting QB, their entire offensive line, their top 2 wide receivers, and although they graduated their top three RBs, they were kind of a "running back by committee" type of offense last year, with ten different guys with 10+ rush attempts. Honestly, if you look at average yards per carry from last year's three top running backs who all graduated (Jacob Fryman 6.1 ypc, Thomas Feickert 9.3 ypc, Ellis Huguely 9.0 ypc), the next 4 guys in line, who are all returning, quite frankly offer more potential yardage carrying the ball: Timmy Emongo 19.1 ypc, Kayne Garrett 7.25 ypc, Buddy Collins 17.3 ypc, Donovan Meeks 7.6 ypc.

Timmy Emongo was a 5'10" 180lb freshman last year and ran the ball 20 times for total 382 yards and 5 touchdowns. Dude was getting nearly 20 yards every time he ran the ball, and was scoring a touchdown 1 in 4 times that he ran it. He already has offers from EKU, Kent State and Miami, OH. Then Buddy Collins, who's given a verbal commitment to Navy, was very similar to Emongo, with 15 carries for 260 yards and 4 touchdowns. So again, basically he pumped out 17.3 yards every time he carried the ball and had a touchdown 1 in 4 times he ran it.

The Scott County offense has the potential to be downright scary in 2024. And their defense returns 6 of 11 starters, so they're not looking too bad on defense either.

In all fairness, most Wing T teams I know are running back by committee so that's nothing new.  They lost their top 3 RBs, which for a team that runs the ball 83% of the time, that's a big deal.  Anyway, I'm sure Coach McKee will have them ready to play each and every week.  I feel fairly confident that most can agree that Boyle County is #1 & FD is #2 in Central KY.  After that, I think you have a mixture of teams who could claim the #3 spot like Scott County, Franklin County, Lexington Catholic, Lexington Christian (although I think they'll drop a bit) & Bryan Station.  A team that I think will be very competitive this year, but not talked about much will be Mercer County.  I'm curious to see how they do in their opening against Bullitt East.  I believe they will be very competitive with the Chargers.

[DearToday]

1. Boyle

2. Douglass

3. Station

4. Franklin Co

5. Scott Co

[BEChargers]

I like Scott Co.  I like a big school running that offense.  They may indeed be top 3 on this list but the point of my earlier post was that I see Boyle and FD definitely being top 3 but I'm not sure most would put Scott Co. in the same group as them, or be as confident in them as they are in Boyle and FD.  

[16thBBall Fan]

  1. Boyle Co.

  2. Frederick Douglass

  3. Bryan Station

  4. Franklin Co. 

  5. Scott Co.

  6. Lexington Christian

  7. Lexington Catholic

  8. Woodford Co.

  9. Tates Creek

10. Paris

[Bulls on Parade]

Campbellsville High School should be in the Central Kentucky group? 

[MBKT]

On 7/19/2024 at 1:39 PM, 16thBBall Fan said:

  1. Boyle Co.

  2. Frederick Douglass

  3. Bryan Station

  4. Franklin Co. 

  5. Scott Co.

  6. Lexington Christian

  7. Lexington Catholic

  8. Woodford Co.

  9. Tates Creek

10. Paris

I revised this list showing the “gap” between the top 3 and all of the others  

 

  1. Boyle Co.

  2. Frederick Douglass

  3. Bryan Station

 

 

  4. Franklin Co. 

  5. Scott Co.

  6. Lexington Christian

  7. Lexington Catholic

  8. Woodford Co.

  9. Tates Creek

10. Paris