KSR's 2025 Kentucky High School Football Top 25 Rankings: End of Regular Season

And that’s a wrap on the 2025 Kentucky high school football regular season! The final pre-playoff games took place over the Halloween weekend, and it’s now officially time to look ahead to the postseason.

The 2025 UK HealthCare Sports Medicine State Football Finals begin on Thursday and Friday, with first-round matchups happening all over the state. As we gear up for some playoff football, we’re taking one final look at the KSR Top 25 rankings following the conclusion of the regular season. There was a notable shake-up in this week’s update, with Christian Academy-Louisville taking over the top spot in the state, jumping Trinity by a single point in the poll.

Additionally, we saw the likes of Owensboro, Atherton, Woodford County, and Pulaski County move up in the rankings, along with Mayfield going from unranked to No. 25. On the flip side, we also had Bell County fall a handful of spots after losing in double-overtime to Pulaski County, 35-34.

Check out the entirety of KSR’s end-of-regular-season Top 25 poll below to see all of this week’s movement. Make sure to scroll all the way down for our updated class-by-class Top 5 rankings. For a full schedule of what’s on tap this Friday for the postseason, click here. 

KSR’s Top 25 Rankings: End of Regular Season

1. Christian Academy-Louisville [6 first-place votes] (+1)
2. Trinity [4 first-place votes] (-1)
3. South Warren
4. Boyle County
5. St. Xavier 
6. Highlands 
7. DuPont Manual 
8. Johnson Central
9. Franklin County
10. Cooper
11. Ryle 
12. Owensboro (+2)
13. Covington Catholic (-1)
14. Frederick Douglass (-1)
15. Atherton (+3)
16. Paducah Tilghman (-1)
17. Woodford County (+3)
18. Lexington Christian Academy (-2)
19. Beechwood 
20. Pulaski County (+2)
21. Owensboro Catholic 
22. Bell County (-5)
23. Lexington Catholic 
24. Belfry (+1)
25. Mayfield (NR)

Others receiving votes: Murray (10), Male (8), Madisonville-North Hopkins (6), North Laurel (4), Glasgow (3), Scott County (1), Corbin (1)

KSR’s Class-by-Class Top 5

*RV indicates a team receiving votes in the Top 25 rankings*

Class A

1. Campbellsville
2. Pikeville
3. Raceland
4. Kentucky Country Day
5. Middlesboro

Class 2A

1. No. 18 Lexington Christian Academy
2. No. 19 Beechwood
3. No. 21 Owensboro Catholic
4. No. 24 Belfry
5. No. 25 Mayfield

Class 3A

1. No. 1 Christian Academy-Louisville
2. No. 22 Bell County
3. No. 23 Lexington Catholic
4. RV Murray
5. RV Glasgow

Class 4A

1. No. 4 Boyle County
2. No. 6 Highlands
3. No. 8 Johnson Central
4. No. 9 Franklin County
5. No. 13 Covington Catholic

Class 5A

1. No. 10 Cooper
2. No. 12 Owensboro
3. No. 15 Atherton
4. No. 17 Woodford County
5. No. 20 Pulaski County

Class 6A

1. No. 2 Trinity
2. No. 3 South Warren
3. No. 5 St. Xavier
4. No. 7 DuPont Manual
5. No. 11 Ryle

KSR Top 25 voters: Jalen Daugherty, Vic Evans, Daniel Hager, Troy Howell, Scott Ratliff, Phoenix Stevens, Lovell Martin, Sam Gormley, Travis Scaggs, and Les Dixon.

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