[jbwill2]

Wow! Congrats to Highlands and also to Bryan Station. BS was 13 seconds away from pulling off what would have been the biggest playoff upset in Kentucky high school football history (considering that HHS is the defending state champion, has been ranked first in Class 5A in all the polls for the whole season and is undefeated against Kentucky competition).

This game is eerily similar to the Highlands-Louisville Central game in 2007, except this year's "gut-check" game came one week later in the year! Central (like BS) was very athletic and was a better team than their record indicated. Everyone was predicting a HHS blowout (just as they were with the BS game) and HHS had to come from behind in the fourth quarter to pull out the win.

The good news for Highlands is that last year's Central game served as a focusing point and HHS rolled through the playoffs. We will see how the 'Birds respond this Friday against Ashland.