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1A Hazard... people from EKY will turn their nose up at this pick and say Hazard gets talked about alot. But the general consensus aroudn the state after Hazard has suffered a couple losses is that they aren't on the level of LCA and Raceland, let alone the almighty Beechwood Tigers. A healthy Hazard offense is absolute torture for any 1A school in KY.

2A Desales... State Semi-Finalist a year ago who returned alot of talent. Yet, most would gladly pick Pburg over them (a team Desales beat soundly in the playoffs), and noone puts them in the same league as Ft. Campbell, NewCath, or for that matter Green County and Corbin.

3A Mason County.... Their only losses have came to 6A Boone County and Campbell County (both good teams). A win over Russell and suddenly they become a major factor in the 3A race. In the East everyone wanst tot alk about Belfry, Russell, SC, Breathitt and Mason gets the short end of the stick.

4A Lone Oak.. State Runner-up was wrote off losing Corey Robinson, but they are currently 6-1 and rolling along nicely.

5A Ashland... Last year's season and the loss to Raceland scared people away, but the Tomcats are playing REALLY good football.

6A It doesn't matter...seriously.

Great Post. To be honest i agree with you on the Hazard comment and never really thought about it. But you have made me realize the same because they have lost two games already this season and people are counting them out. LCA will find out soon enough how good Hazard is and Raceland may find out later on in the playoffs how good they are and maybe Beechwood as well if Hazard can get over the hump. I believe they shall because the hump to get over will be a home game and I am sure they will be fired up and ready to play and not give up on any play until the game is over.

Mason County will get respect after beating Russell this weekend and then everyone will be calling them the quite horse in the race.

Ashland is getting better as the season comes along and they shouldnt hold there heads down for losing to Raceland because they are a good team and to be honest I dont think ashland was ready to play and I dont think you can base anthing on how the first game of the season is because teams can be rusty or teams can be just on fire but overal i love the post and hopefully we can get some more opinions in this thread.