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Raceland
1. 2022 13-2 Class A runners up
2. 2008 12-1 Started season 12-0 had one bad half against Lexington Christian in regional final
3. 1987 11-2 First Raceland team to win at least 10 games and first Raceland team to win a playoff game
4. 2006 11-2 Lost to eventual state champion Newport Central Catholic in regional final
5. 2013 11-3 First Raceland team to win Region Championship.

This likely will be an unpopular opinion but I would put our team this year 5th on the list.

I think the 2008 team was our best team. Had that group played this year they would have made the state finals undefeated and could have gave Pikeville a good game.  That’s not to knock our team this year but had the 2022 team played in 08, I’m not sure they would have beaten that LCA team.  

Coming in at 2nd would be the 2006 team.  In my opinion that team was just as good as the 08 team but they get the second place nod because they had a loss in the regular season and the 08 team was undefeated against similar competition.  Everyone talks about the disappointment of the 08 team against LCA but thinking about the 06 team stings the worst to me.  That team had the eventual state champion NCC on the ropes and it fell apart right before half time.  That team was a top 5 team in the last year of the brutal 4 class 1A.

Third would be 1987.  I have heard stories about how tough those guys were my whole life and for the longest time that team set the standard for what a good Raceland football team should look like.


4th would be 1990.  That team beat Pikeville after the legendary run of the Panthers from 87-89.

Coming in at 5th is the 2022 Rams.  This was a special team no doubt but they also had the benefit of playing in a very weak Class A and after seeing how they performed against Pikeville it is hard to think that they could have made it to the regional round in the 4 class system going against Beechwood, NCC, Bellevue, Dayton, or Ludlow when all of those teams were good.  Also the advantage that this team had with the holdback rule makes it hard to put them up there as a true all time great.

Glad to see the 90 team get some love.This was a very very good team.I actually think this was Bill Tom’s best team.We got beat by Assland the first game of the season.That Assland team won the state championship that year.Got beat by Lawrence County….which was in their last year of non district play and they went 11-0. We lost to a bellevue 10-0 in the first round of the playoffs. We was 30 points better then that team.Bellevue went to the state championship game that year and got beat 14-0 by Russellville.If you’ve played at Raceland or just a fan it’s been years upon years of heartbreak