KSR's 2025 Kentucky High School Football Top 25 Rankings: Playoffs Round 2

The second round of the 2025 UK HealthCare Sports Medicine State Football Finals came with a handful of surprises.

A pair of Top 15 teams were knocked out of the postseason this past Friday: No. 11 Cooper fell to Scott County 55-34 in the KSR Game of the Week, while DuPont Manual lost a tight one, 15-14, to Male. Cooper fell out of the rankings entirely in this week’s update, with Manual just barely hanging on. We also saw Covington Catholic take down Johnson Central, 36-29, in a battle of ranked schools. Those results brought plenty of movement in KSR’s latest Top 25 rankings.

We’ll likely see even more movement in next week’s update with quarterfinal action scheduled for Friday across the Bluegrass. Some of the headliner matchups this week include Mayfield @ Lexington Christian (2A), Covington Catholic @ Boyle County (4A), Corbin @ Highlands (4A), Scott County @ Woodford County (5A), Male @ St. Xavier (6A), and Ryle @ Frederick Douglass (6A).

Check out the entirety of KSR’s updated Top 25 poll below to see all of this week’s changes. 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 quarterfinal round of the postseason, click here. 

KSR’s Top 25 Rankings: Playoffs Rd. 2

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

Others receiving votes: Corbin (12), Scott County (11), Middlesboro (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. 15 Lexington Christian Academy
2. No. 17 Beechwood
3. No. 20 Owensboro Catholic
4. No. 24 Belfry
5. No. 25 Mayfield

Class 3A

1. No. 2 Christian Academy-Louisville
2. No. 21 Bell County
3. No. 22 Lexington Catholic
4. Murray
5. Lloyd Memorial

Class 4A

1. No. 4 Boyle County
2. No. 6 Highlands
3. No. 7 Franklin County
4. No. 8 Covington Catholic
5. No. 12 Johnson Central

Class 5A

1. No. 11 Owensboro
2. No. 13 Woodford County
3. No. 14 Atherton
4. No. 19 Pulaski County
5. RV Scott County

Class 6A

1. No. 1 Trinity
2. No. 3 South Warren
3. No. 5 St. Xavier
4. No. 9 Ryle
5. No. 10 Frederick Douglass

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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