[zaga_fan]

I refrained from commenting on the pre-season poll, but there were just a ton of issues and it's showing.

But I will also say that rankings are a reflection of what happens in the win and loss column, and they aren't always a 1:1 representation of the best teams.
For example, if you have two 5-0 football teams playing each other in NCAA college football or basketball and one is ranked 1 and the other is ranked 20, if the top ranked team wins the team ranked 20 is going to fall down in the rankings. It doesn't matter if the teams ranked 21 and 22 are worse teams or the 20th ranked team shouldn't have beaten the top ranked team in the first place, they are going down in the rankings.

So I can see why it's hard to put Pikeville at 3 when they are 0-3. It doesn't matter that they lost to 1 and 2 (and LCA), you can't just lose every week and expect to be one of the top ranked teams on any list. I'm sure Pikeville's goals are much higher than being ranked 3 on WYMT.

By that logic Trinity could be 0-3 and not be in the Mountain Top 10 and St. Edwards may have fallen below Hazard after losing to Boyle Co. (Just pretending they are mountain teams for context.)

I'm not saying they shouldn't be on the list. I'm saying it's hard to put them at #3 at this very moment while they haven't won a game.
I think Pikeville is probably the third-best team around here.
This is an anomaly because of their schedule, but in any ranking you typically drop a spot/spots if you lose.
Rankings historically just show you how teams are trending at the time and I'm sure Pikeville will be trending near the top at the end of the year.

Don't let my comment on Pikeville overshadow my overall thoughts about this list though.
Corbin should have never been anything other than #1.
Breathitt has been ranked in the top ten at least the last couple of years and have quickly dropped out.
Perry Central beats Breathitt and gets into the list prematurely in consecutive years.
Somerset is likely not the best team in Pulaski County.
Johnson Central down at #6 to start the season was tragic.
It was a bad list and it's going to take a couple more weeks to shake everything out.