Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Hard to make sense of KY high school football rankings, especially for teams here

It seemed so easy a year ago the way three Northern Kentucky high school football programs made it to state championship games in Lexington.

Beechwood, of course, in Class 2A, and the two Union schools, Ryle and Cooper, in 6A and 5A respectively. Life was good for football up here. The sky was the limit.

And along came 2025. And it’s not so easy as it appeared a year ago.

But is there something of a rebound going on, not just among the voters but the supposedly impartial RPI computerized rankings the KHSAA uses to determine postseason seedings that determine what can be all-important home field advantage in the playoffs.

As in: Who do you think has the advantage when Beechwood has to head off the 300 miles to Mayfield, or vice versa. Or Paducah Tilghman having to head to, or host, Covi