Score predictions for Week 2 of the 2025 Kentucky high school football season

The 2025 Kentucky high school football season is fully underway. After a thrilling opening stretch of games, it’s already time for Week 2 action.

We’ll start with a few games on Thursday to prepare us for what’s in store throughout the weekend. We have five games on Friday’s docket between ranked teams, along with the KSR Game of the Week between No. 25 Scott County and Great Crossing. Headlining this week’s slate of games is No. 1 Trinity hosting No. 18 Frederick Douglass in Louisville. Saturday only features a pair of games, but the Rebel Bowl double-header in Danville is not expected to disappoint.

As we gear up for Week 2 action, we’re predicting the score for every major game on the schedule for this weekend. Using the Massey Ratings — a system created in 1999 by statistician Kenneth Massey that was used to help determine the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) until 2013 — we are able to look up score predictions for every game happening across the state.

As a quick explanation, the Massey Ratings are computer ratings based on historical trends and current-year stats. With that in mind, it will need a few weeks’ worth of games before the numbers begin to hit their stride. However, you won’t find a more reliable system to use in terms of predicting scores throughout the first couple of weeks of the regular season.

For more information on the Massey Ratings and how it works, click here.

Below, we have included score predictions for all of KSR’s Top 25 teams, including the additional teams receiving votes from our panel of 10 voters. If your school was not included in the prediction sheet, click the link here to find their team page. There, you’ll be able to see predictive scores for this weekend and the rest of the season, along with updated results.

Friday, August 29

*RV indicates a team receiving votes in KSR’s Week 1 Top 25 Rankings*

TIME (local)	MATCHUP	MASSEY PREDICTION
7:30 PM	No. 18 Frederick Douglass @ No. 1 Trinity	36-14 (Trinity)
7:00 PM	Conner @ No. 3 Ryle	42-7 (Ryle)
7:00 PM	No. 4 Paducah Tilghman @ Graves County	44-14 (Paducah Tilghman)
6:30 PM	No. 5 St. Xavier @ No. 14 Bowling Green	35-21 (St. Xavier)
7:00 PM	No. 6 Christian Academy-Louisville @ RV Owensboro	41-14 (Christian Academy-Louisville)
7:30 PM	No. 7 Franklin County @ Bullitt East	42-14 (Franklin County)
7:00 PM	No. 8 Owensboro Catholic @ Daviess County	42-8 (Owensboro Catholic)
7:30 PM	No. 9 Highlands @ No. 10 Cooper	34-31 (Highlands)
7:30 PM	No. 15 South Warren @ No. 11 DuPont Manual	35-21 (DuPont Manual)
7:00 PM	No. 12 Covington Catholic @ Elder (OH)	41-14 (Elder)
8:30 PM (Praxel Line Services Bowl)	No. 13 Corbin @ North Laurel	42-7 (Corbin)
7:00 PM	Newport Central Catholic vs. No. 16 Beechwood (@ Covington Catholic)	47-12 (Beechwood)
7:00 PM	No. 17 Male @ Ballard	27-21 (Male)
8:30 PM	RV Central @ No. 20 Belfry	35-27 (Central)
7:30 PM	Harvest Preparatory School (OH) @ No. 21 Woodford County	34-26 (Harvest Preparatory School)
7:30 PM	Madison Central @ No. 23 Johnson Central	32-21 (Johnson Central)
8:00 PM	No. 24 Raceland @ Pleasure Ridge Park	34-14 (Raceland)
7:30 PM (KSR GOTW)	No. 25 Scott County @ RV Great Crossing	42-27 (Scott County)
7:30 PM	RV Bell County @ Perry County Central	40-14 (Bell County)
7:30 PM	Ashland Blazer @ RV Tates Creek	42-21 (Ashland Blazer)
7:00 PM	Southern @ RV Atherton	42-7 (Atherton)

Saturday, August 30

TIME (local)	MATCHUP	MASSEY PREDICTION
8:00 PM (Rebel Bowl)	No. 19 Lexington Christian Academy @ No. 2 Boyle County	43-14 (Boyle County)
5:00 PM (Rebel Bowl)	Bryan Station vs. RV Pulaski County (@ Boyle County)	31-30 (Bryan Station)

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