It's that Time

Here are the football scores from last weekend in western Kentucky (home teams listed first):

Friday, August 18:

Franklin-Simpson 40 - 28 Christian Co. (at Warren East) (J. Allen Builders Bowl)

Russellville 7 - 29 Butler Co. (at Logan Co.) (Logan Co. Bowl)

Bethlehem 55 - 14 Marshall Co.

Webster Co. 8 - 31 Crittenden Co.

Northwest (Clarksville, Tenn.) 17 - 20 Ft. Campbell

Greenwood 49 - 14 Hopkinsville (at Allen-Co.-Scottsville)

Henderson Co. 35 - 34 Meade Co.

Hopkins Co. Cent. 20 - 14 Caldwell Co.

Mayfield 42 - 7 Graves Co.

Ballard Mem. 0 - 40 S. Fulton (Tenn.)

Union Co. 21 - 14 Madisonville-N. Hopkins

Saturday, August 19:

Fulton Co. 20 - 48 Gleason (Tenn.)

Harrison Co. 40 - 33 Calloway Co.

Trigg Co. 21 - 41 Murray

McCracken Co. 7 - 42 Paducah Tilghman

The two most interesting results of the weekend -- besides Tilghman's huge win over McCracken County -- were:  (1) Lexington Christian beat Bowling Green 56 - 52 at the Rafferty's Bowl played on the campus of Western Kentucky U., and (2) Lex. Frederick Douglass, which outscored its opponents 611-70 last year in rolling to the 5A title, were crushed 45-6 in Canton, Ohio by Archbishop Hoban H.S. of Akron, Ohio.

Later in the season, we are going to start tracking our Power Eleven -- the Top 11 teams in our end of the Commonwealth.  It will take a few weeks to have enough data for the rankings to be meaningful this year, so here are last year's final rankings (each team's final MaxPrep ranking in parentheses):

2022 Power Eleven:

1.  Henderson Co:  10-3 (20)

2.  Mayfield:  14-1 (25)

3.  Union Co:  12-1 (35)

4.  Paducah Tilghman:  6-7 (38)

5.  Logan Co:  11-2 (47)

6.  Madisonville-N. Hopkins:  7-5 (61)

7.  Hopkinsville:  6-6 (62)

8.  Graves Co:  6-5 (74)

9.  Christian Co:  3-8 (98)

10.  Trigg Co:  7-4 (102)

11.  Murray:  6-6 (106)

And here's the list of the Power Eleven Champions going back to 2004 (final MaxPrep ranking in parentheses):

2022:  Henderson Co:  10-3 (20)

2021:  Mayfield:  12-2 (27)

2020:  McCracken Co:  6-3 (23)

2019:  Mayfield:  13-2 (17)

2018:  Mayfield:  14-1 (14)

2017:  Mayfield:  13-2 (8)

2016:  Christian Co:  9-3 (17)

2015:  Mayfield:  14-1 (16)

2014:  Mayfield:  14-1 (7)

2013:  Mayfield:  14-1 (15)

2012:  Mayfield:  14-1 (14)

2011:  Mayfield:  14-1 (17)

2010:  Mayfield:  15-0 (8)

2009:  Lone Oak:  14-1 (7)

2008:  Christian Co:  13-2 (9)

2007:  Ft. Campbell:  13-2 (10)

2006:  Henderson Co:  10-3 (18)

2005:  Christian Co:  8-5 (19)

2004:  Hopkinsville:  13-1 (8)

Hooray for football!