[Hoot Gibson]

The eastern part of kentucky doesnt reflect the quality of football here either. louisville schools would hold thier own against any virginia team regardless of class.

Kentucky's high school football is extremely top heavy. Having one or two teams dominate most of the six classes does not mean that Kentucky is a strong football state. Kentucky's best teams, including Trinity and St. X., would struggle to compete on a yearly basis in many of the strong large school conferences around the country. RIUG asked how anybody could consider Virginia a top 10 high school football state, and the first list I found by Googling was the ESPN list.

If you want further evidence that Virginia is a top football state, then take a look at these numbers from Rivals:

Where the FBS signees come from

Note that on Signing Day, 2013, one out of every 323 Virginia high school players accepted D1 scholarship offers. In contrast, 1 out of every 826 Kentucky high school football players signed D1 offers on the same day.

D1 signees are not the only measure of the overall quality of football played in each state, but it is more objective than any of the bogus attempts to rank teams nationally that rarely play common opponents.