2024 Louisville/Metro Area 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 the Greater Louisville area) 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 under 3 weeks away from football season kicking off, what are you thinking in terms of preseason power rankings for the 51 football teams in the Greater Louisville area? Who else fits into the Top 5 aside from Trinity, Male and St. X? What's your Top 10 look like? ...are you plugged into things enough to take a guess at #11 through #20 teams in the area?
 

5A Atherton
6A Ballard
4A Bardstown
1A Bethlehem
5A Bullitt Central
6A Bullitt East
5A Butler
1A Campbellsville
3A Central
6A Central Hardin
3A Christian Academy of Louisville
5A Collins
4A DeSales
4A Doss
6A Eastern
3A Elizabethtown
1A Eminence
5A Fairdale
6A Fern Creek
2A Fort Knox
2A Green County
4A Henry County
5A Iroquois
4A Jeffersontown
4A John Hardin
1A Kentucky Country Day
1A Louisville Holy Cross
6A Male
6A Manual
6A Meade County
5A Moore
5A North Bullitt
6A North Hardin
4A North Oldham
4A Nelson County
6A Oldham County
6A Pleasure Ridge Park
6A Saint Xavier
5A Seneca
4A Shelby County
2A Shawnee
6A Southern
5A South Oldham
4A Spencer County
4A Thomas Nelson
1A Trimble County
6A Trinity
4A Valley
2A WEB DuBois
4A Waggener
4A Western

[TylerDurden]

1 - Trinity

2 - Manual

3 - Male

4 - St. X

 

5 - CAL

6 - Ballard

 

7 - Central

 

8 - Central Hardin

9 - PRP

10 - Atherton

 

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

15 minutes ago, TylerDurden said:

1 - Trinity
2 - Manual
3 - Male
4 - St. X

5 - CAL
6 - Ballard

7 - Central

8 - Central Hardin
9 - PRP
10 - Atherton

 

Not a bad take. I think you're probably about right about most of the talent gaps, although I'd probably lump Central in with Central Hardin, Pleasure Ridge Park, and Atherton. Your Top 3, though, are you saying you think Manual is going to beat Male this year for the first time since 2013?

[TylerDurden]

40 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Not a bad take. I think you're probably about right about most of the talent gaps, although I'd probably lump Central in with Central Hardin, Pleasure Ridge Park, and Atherton. Your Top 3, though, are you saying you think Manual is going to beat Male this year for the first time since 2013?

Preseason rankings. Once the Male/Manual game rolls around the Bulldogs may well have put things together well enough to win it. But going into the beginning of the season I think Manual has more pieces remaining in place from last year in terms of seasoned talent.

[Unrivaled97]

6 hours ago, TylerDurden said:

1 - Trinity

2 - Manual

3 - Male

4 - St. X

 

5 - CAL

6 - Ballard

 

7 - Central

 

8 - Central Hardin

9 - PRP

10 - Atherton

 

I agree with CWB, not a bad looking list.  I do believe the talent gap between 4 and 5 is not as wide as thought, although CAL's talent is young.  As far as 8-10, I think it could be any number of teams honestly.  I look for teams like South Oldham, North Oldham and Collins to have good enough years to be considered for those spots and especially Fern Creek.  Look for Fern Creek to have a pretty good year and I believe they will win a few games this year that many think they would lose going into the season.  They return a lot of talent from last year's team.