Hard to believe, but there is only one more vote by the ranking team. Next weekend is the final time for rankings and then the real rankings begin…..the playoffs. Then we get to see who the best teams in the state really are.
There was some movement this week with several of the ranked teams losing a game last weekend. Doesn’t mean that those teams won’t make a lot of noise in the playoffs, just means they lost a game in regular season. And sometimes, the loss of a game in regular season is one of the things that motivates a team to play with more emotion, with more discipline and with a sense of urgency.
Yes, the sense of urgency, because the high school game of football, for 2023, is quickly coming to an end.
Super Top 10 All-Classes
1. Washburn Rural
2. Gardner-Edgerton
3. Manhattan
4. Bishop Miege
5. Olathe North
6. Mill Valley
7. Kapaun
8. St Thomas Aquinas
9. Wichita NW
10. Olathe East
11. Goddard-Eisenhower
12. Derby
13. Blue Valley SW
14. Cheney
6A
1. Washburn Rural
2. Olathe North
3. Gardner-Edgerton
4. Manhattan
5. Olathe East
Others: Wichita NW, Derby
5A
1. Kapaun
2. Mill Valley
3. Blue Valley SW
4. Goddard Eisenhower
5. DeSoto
Others: Liberal
4A
1. Bishop Miege
2. Aquinas
3. Louisburg
4. Buhler
5. Tonganoxie
Others: Chanute, Wamego
3A
1. Cheney
2. Andale
3. Collegiate
4. Hayden
5. Scott City
Others: Clay Center
2A
1. Nemaha Central
2. Sabetha
3. Hoisington
4. SE of Saline
5. Ellsworth
Others: Norton
1A
1. St Marys Colgan
2. Smith Center
3. Marion
4. Centralia
5. Sedgwick
Others: none
8-man D-I
1. Wichita Co-Leoti
2. Lyndon
3. Moundridge
4. Meade
5. Atwood
Others: Central Burden, South Sumner Co., Hoxie
8-man D-II
1. Axtell
2. Victoria
3. Minneola
4. Canton-Galva
5. Osborne
Others: South Barber
6-man
1. Cheylin
2. Ashland
3. Cunningham
4. Waverly
5. N. Valley
Others: none
Long time Ranking team members
Rich Epp OpenSpacesSports Colby
Dusty Deines KDNS Beloit
Conor Nichol Sunflower Sports SolutionsHays
Jim Misunas Great Bend Tribune Great Bend
Adam Kadavy KSKL Scott City/Garden City
Brock Kappelmann KSCB Liberal
Tim McGonagle KSKL Scott City/Garden City
Rocky Downing KFRM 550 AM
Pat Strathman ESPN Wichita