Today is our final rankings for the football season. We will have a final ranking after all the playoff games are finished and the new champions have been crowned. Then we can see how close the games were during the playoffs and get a better picture of who should be number two through five in each classification.
Also, it gives us a better idea of was the East or the West side of the bracket the best football in the state in that particular classification?
The high school football season is not over yet, but I am dreading the eventually Friday night when there will be no more football games until next year. Professional football is rigged in my opinion. The choose who they want to win and who they want in the playoffs and Super Bowl. College football with the new NIL, will soon be the team with the most money, that can buy the best players, will be the top dogs. To be honest, I think that has been going on for years anyway. No, give me high school football, where our guys in our town, against your guys in your town and lets see who wins.
Thank you to the school boards, the superintendents, the principals, athletic directors, football coaches, officials, band members, cheerleaders, drill teams, ticket takers, concession stand workers, PA guys and gals, clock and score keepers, camera crews, equipment staff and trainers, chain gang crews, water guys and gals, EMT’s, and finally the players for making high school football the greatest sport that it is and ever will be.
Super Top 10 All-Classes
1. Washburn Rural
2. Manhattan
3. Gardner-Edgerton
4. Olathe North
5. Bishop Miege
6. Kapaun
7. Mill Valley
8. Derby
9. Olathe East
10. Blue Valley SW
11. St Thomas Aquinas
12. Wichita NW
13. Goddard-Eisenhower
14. Cheney
15. Liberal
6A
1. Washburn Rural
2. Gardner-Edgerton
3. Olathe North
4. Manhattan
5. Derby
Others: Wichita NW, Olathe East
5A
1. Kapaun
2. Mill Valley
3. Blue Valley SW
4. DeSoto
5. Goddard Eisenhower
Others: Goddard, Liberal, Maize South, Hutchinson
4A
1. Bishop Miege
2. Aquinas
3. Louisburg
4. Tonganoxie
5. Chanute
Others: Wamego, Buhler, Atchison
3A
1. Cheney
2. Andale
3. Hayden
4. Collegiate
5. Clay Center
Others: Scott City, Wellsville
2A
1. Nemaha Central
2. Hoisington
3. SE of Saline
4. Sabetha
5. Norton
Others: Silver Lake, Ellsworth, Garden Plain
1A
1. St Marys Colgan
2. Smith Center
3. Centralia
4. Sedgwick
5. Marion
Others: Olpe, St Mary’s, Conway Springs, Jeff Co North, Jackson Hts
8-man D-I
1. Wichita Co-Leoti
2. Lyndon
3. Moundridge
4. Central-Burden
5. Meade
Others: Hoxie, Atwood, Ell Saline
8-man D-II
1. Axtell
2. Minneola
3. Victoria
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