Score predictions for Week 8 of the 2025 Kentucky high school football season

We’re in for another action-packed slate of games on Friday night.

Headlining this week’s Kentucky high school football schedule is the KSR Game of the Week, which will head to Lexington for a district showdown between No. 22 Madison Central and No. 14 Frederick Douglass. Madison Central is 0-6 all-time in this series, while Frederick Douglass is looking to win its fourth straight game of the season after starting 0-3. We also have a top-10 matchup on deck as No. 7 St. Xavier visits No. 5 DuPont Manual in Louisville. Other ranked teams, such as No. 6 Highlands and No. 11 Covington Catholic, will face tough out-of-state foes.

As we gear up for Week 8 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 can look up score predictions for every game happening across the state.

For a brief explanation, the Massey Ratings are computer-generated ratings based on historical trends and current-year statistics. 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.

To learn more about the Massey Ratings and how they work, 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 its 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, October 10

*RV indicates a team receiving votes in KSR’s Week 7 Top 25 Rankings*

TIME (LOCAL)	MATCHUP	MASSEY PREDICTION
7:30 PM	No. 1 Trinity @ Ballard	41-7 (Trinity)
7:00 PM	No. 2 Christian Academy-Louisville @ Central	42-7 (Christian Academy-Louisville)
6:30 PM	No. 4 Boyle County @ Russell County	48-6 (Boyle County)
7:30 PM	No. 7 St. Xavier @ No. 5 DuPont Manual	28-21 (St. Xavier)
7:00 PM	No. 6 Highlands @ Elder (OH)	42-20 (Elder)
7:30 PM	No. 8 Johnson Central @ Rowan County	48-3 (Johnson Central)
7:30 PM	No. 9 Franklin County @ Grant County	46-0 (Franklin County)
7:00 PM	Cathedral (IN) @ No. 11 Covington Catholic	32-14 (Cathedral)
7:00 PM	No. 13 Ryle @ Campbell County	42-6 (Ryle)
7:30 PM (KSR GOTW)	No. 22 Madison Central @ No. 14 Frederick Douglass	34-14 (Frederick Douglass)
7:30 PM	Knox Central @ No. 15 Bell County	48-13 (Bell County)
7:30 PM	Shawnee @ No. 17 Lexington Christian Academy	45-0 (Shawnee)
7:30 PM	No. 18 Woodford County @ Collins	41-14 (Woodford County)
7:30 PM	St. Henry @ No. 19 Beechwood	48-0 (Beechwood)
7:00 PM	Butler @ No. 20 Atherton	43-6 (Atherton)
7:30 PM	RV South Laurel @ No. 23 Pulaski County	42-18 (Pulaski County)
7:30 PM	Mercer County @ No. 24 Lexington Catholic	46-7 (Lexington Catholic)
8:00 PM	RV Owensboro Catholic @ Fort Knox	51-7 (Owensboro Catholic)
7:30 PM	RV North Laurel @ Southwestern	28-14 (North Laurel)
7:00 PM	Southern @ RV Male	46-0 (Male)
7:30 PM	RV Scott County @ South Oldham	38-14 (Scott County)

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