[Orange Blaze]

No they aren’t. If we play like that against Pikeville we will get beat by eleventy billion

Sometimes these high school teams aren’t really mentally focused enough on the game and instead of playing to their ability they just don’t perform. I personally think Raceland has a very good team with good players every where and they definitely will be all right and I have seen other teams do the same thing. One never knows what’s going to happen in high school football games. No team is unbeatable and it only takes one game to put you out at the end of the year.

Very good post, I agree with you, definitely think Raceland is a very good football team and they'll be right there in the state semis or state finals with a chance to win it all regardless of how the RPI shakes out.

This is really just by virtue of 1A being a really weak division.  Not to take anything away from Raceland because we do have a good team but let’s be real for a minute and ask if this discussion would be had if teams like Beechwood or Mayfield were still in 1A.  Over the past 10 years it seems like when a team in 1A asserts its dominance they move up and the division becomes weaker as a result.

Part of this I agree with and yes their would have been some 1A teams that wouldn’t have won a championship but in 2015 Pikeville beat Beechwood and in 2018 they should have if an injury to one of Pikeville’s players wouldn’t have happened and in 2019 they could have beaten any team in 2A that year and did beat the 3A team that year that won 3A. After saying that in reality we don’t know any fictional games would turn out. I think all classes are weak when in most cases you get down past the first 4 or 5 teams. A 1A championship trophy right now is just as great as it was back in the old days to those teams as is to these teams now. So why make it seem less worthy to these teams now. I have heard this same talk on this site for years and it will never be nothing more than opinions of some.

The Pikeville teams from the last 2-3 years certainly would have been in the hunt for a title and probably still would have won with Mayfield and Beechwood in Class A.  If you put this version of Pikeville in 2A they would be a contender this year and would have a good shot at making it to Kroger.

I was mainly talking about Raceland being in the discussion.  I played in the old 4 Class system when Class A was arguably one of the toughest classes from top to bottom and Raceland wasn’t even mentioned as a top 10 team.  The point I was making was Raceland is only considered a top program now because all of competition left the division that would have knocked them out of the top spots.