42-28 graves

Apollos defense has been and continues to be their Achilles heel.

Graves County seems to have found something with their offense and big plays these past 2 weeks. This is a team that if they can get hot at the end of the season I would not want to see in the playoffs.

Not sure what to think of this result. I picked Graves but probably would have changed that pick if I could. I keep expecting that Apollo defense to make some strides and they aren't. It also feels like the offense is sliding back a little. I would guess Apollo is probably looking at the 4 seed in the district as long as they beat Marshall and that has to be pretty disappointing.

4 hours ago, 83wildcatFB said:

Not sure what to think of this result. I picked Graves but probably would have changed that pick if I could. I keep expecting that Apollo defense to make some strides and they aren't. It also feels like the offense is sliding back a little. I would guess Apollo is probably looking at the 4 seed in the district as long as they beat Marshall and that has to be pretty disappointing.

I think you're looking at this as a bad loss and honestly I don't see it as that. Graves is a good football team that has played one of the toughest schedules in the state and been competitive in almost all of their games. They have also been through a QB change and a play caller change and seem to be figuring it out. They played good enough last to week to beat Madisonville but came up short.

Looks like Graves will most likely be heading to Glasgow to start the playoffs.

7 hours ago, Tkinslow said:

Looks like Graves will most likely be heading to Glasgow to start the playoffs.

Don't know much about Barren County except they are much improved from what they were a few years ago. Graves has played solid defense most of the year and the offense has over 700 yards and 6 tds the past 2 weeks which I think has them moving in the right direction.

On 10/3/2026 at 11:32 AM, WesternKYguy said:

I think you're looking at this as a bad loss and honestly I don't see it as that. Graves is a good football team that has played one of the toughest schedules in the state and been competitive in almost all of their games. They have also been through a QB change and a play caller change and seem to be figuring it out. They played good enough last to week to beat Madisonville but came up short.

I am not an Apollo guy but the people around that program had high expectations coming into this year. They believed they would be right there with Owensboro in this district and now they are gonna be the 4 seed and they have a defense that is not competitive. No offense to Graves but I don't see how this program can see this game as anything other than a bad loss.

30 minutes ago, 83wildcatFB said:

I am not an Apollo guy but the people around that program had high expectations coming into this year. They believed they would be right there with Owensboro in this district and now they are gonna be the 4 seed and they have a defense that is not competitive. No offense to Graves but I don't see how this program can see this game as anything other than a bad loss.

I think we had big expectations because of their offense. I was on here at the beginning of the season that if they can get their defense ready and replace a secondary that every kid signed at a college, they will meet expectations. I think they miss JT Edge, Coach Edge's son and the 2 corners from last year on defense more then anything.

Other then that. NO they have not met expectations. IF they can pull off this upset Friday, I know I've said this about Region 1 referees but I've seen Owensboro go down there and struggle, but we have way enough talent then Apollo to overcome bad officiating and sometimes, a few years ago, bad coaching.

I hope they can figure it out.

@83wildcatFB didn't you vote for Graves to win? So you had to know something.

Edited October 5Oct 5 by TimeWillTell

10 hours ago, TimeWillTell said:

I think they miss JT Edge, Coach Edge's son and the 2 corners from last year on defense more then anything.

Can't really say that. Apollo didn't have much of a defense last year either.

1 hour ago, Devils Fan said:

Can't really say that. Apollo didn't have much of a defense last year either.

Apollos Def was better than this year's. Their Defense saved them in Graves and Barren game last year I can remember. Didn't say it was elite but they were way better than this year team.

Edited October 6Oct 6 by TimeWillTell

I had an interest in this game, so I watched the last quarter and a half and from what I saw Graves was the better team.

22 hours ago, TimeWillTell said:

I think we had big expectations because of their offense. I was on here at the beginning of the season that if they can get their defense ready and replace a secondary that every kid signed at a college, they will meet expectations. I think they miss JT Edge, Coach Edge's son and the 2 corners from last year on defense more then anything.

Other then that. NO they have not met expectations. IF they can pull off this upset Friday, I know I've said this about Region 1 referees but I've seen Owensboro go down there and struggle, but we have way enough talent then Apollo to overcome bad officiating and sometimes, a few years ago, bad coaching.

I hope they can figure it out.

@83wildcatFB didn't you vote for Graves to win? So you had to know something.

The main reason I picked Graves was because Owensboro had just demolished Apollo and Graves gave Madisonville quite a game. Just figured Graves would want to get back out there and would be hungrier.