Saturday Special…After last night’s @KyHighFootball action, what we think we now know!

Okay guys, we still have Saturday night action to go but Friday night was fast, furious, and enlightening regarding the shape of the remainder of the 2019 football season. We are two games in and there are somethings which have been confirmed for us regarding our preseason impressions and somethings about which we were just dead wrong. Here are some thoughts about what we think now about what we thought preseason.

Hopkinsville High School is a lot better football team than we thought…

Hopkinsville High School battled Mayfield High School last night to the bitter end, losing 27-22. That being said, Jay Bland had a pick-six throwing into the same triple coverage which saw him get picked last week against Kenwood and Mayfield scored a TD on a 3rd and 18 screen pass from its own ten yard line.

Someone told KPGFootball “that was the worst Mayfield team I have seen play in 20 years.” Well, it seems every week Hoptown is either beating or playing with teams fans claim to be terrible. Sooner or later we have to concede the Tigers are just a really good Class 4A football team.

Reece Jesse, Jr. has developed into the kind of player who can beat any team, any time, almost alone. He is a difference maker. The offensive line seems to be improving steadily.

Somerset High School may be the best team in 2A…

Remember when MoCo was giving us the business on social media about our not respecting them. C’mon, you remember it. It was when we had the temerity to not have them ranked among our top-ten, Class 5A football teams, preseason.

Well, how can a top-10, Class 5A team lose to any Class 2A football team 75-13? The answer is it can’t.

MoCo, we didn’t rank you in the preseason because you aren’t very good. Now, as far as Somerset re-inserting the first team offense and throwing a TD pass on MoCo with 9 seconds remaining in the game, all we can say is…maybe you guys got on social media and pissed off Robbie Lucas (like you did us).

Trinity is definitely back…

It is going to be a long year for any Class 6A team in Kentucky who thought it was funny the Shamrocks lost those seven games a year ago. Trinitiy beat Warren Central (Indianapolis, IN) 17-14 in Nap-town. WC is one of the best programs in America perennially. Then again, so is Louisville Trinity. In the words first made famous in the Poltergeist movie franchise…THEY’RE BACK!

Speaking of being back…what in the Hell is happening on the Riverbank (Breathitt County)

Okay, Breathitt Count is 2-0 for the first time to start a season in years. Okay, Breathitt County has finally won a Honey Bowl for the first time in years. All of that is true, but did you see what Breathitt County did to Class 5A South Laurel last night? You have got to be kidding me…43-8?

Well thanks to our friends at Bluegrass Sports Nation, whose live broadcast of last night’s game may have been like viewing the high school football equivalence of a moon landing, you can see it for yourself by hitting this link. Louisville Trinity is not the only Kentucky football power to be back to usual. Breathitt Co., a historical mountain and Class 2A powerhouse, will have to be contended with in the 2A classification in 2019.

They showed that last night. Hit the link and see for yourself.

Man is Lexington Christian plucky…

LCA was 9-4 last year and lost to Somerset on Somerset’s one yard line with the football as time expired in the 2018 Regional Championship game. They had freshmen all over the field in 2018 who are now sophomores.

Last night, LCA had to invade Pike County and play Belfry in the Pike County Bowl. Sure, Belfry won 39-20, but that score is a bit deceiving as Belfry scored a couple 4th quarter scores to put some lipstick on that hog, if you will.

Belfry was only ahead 26-20 to begin the fourth quarter last night before the big mountain boys just wore out the plucky, Class 2A, power from Lexington, Kentucky. In the words of KPGFootball’s correspondent who was covering that game for us last night, “This LCA team is good.” Yes they are.

How about Caldwell County being way better than we thought preseason…

Caldwell County lost its legendary coach, David Barnes, who died before the season started. Since then, the Tigers, from Princeton, KY, have opened the season with a victory over Class 5A Christian County and now a win over Class 6A’s Owensboro Apollo, 43-21.

We’re sorry but we thought with the graduation of the Jaggers kid, and having to basically move a linebacker to QB, the Tigers weren’t going to be very good on offense this year. Well, the converted LBer, was 8 for 8 passing last night in a performance which may have lacked in pizzaz but not in effect.

What about Christian County appearing to be as bad as we feared they were..

Christian County really needed to win its opener against the Tigers from Caldwell (Class 2A). No one expected the Colonels to be able to play with the Christian Academy-Louisville (CAL) and, in that vein, they didn’t disappoint.

CAL smoked the Colonels 36-0 last night in a game which would see the Colonel offense rarely pass the 50-yard line. We don’t know which comment of ours drew more fire this offseason, the one where we didn’t include Montgomery County in the preseason Top-10, Class 5A poll or the one where we said Christian County’s football team would be pathetic in 2019.

Maybe we should have chosen our words a bit more judiciously. However, it is 2019 and the Colonels are pathetic. Own it Christian County, a fact is a fact.

What about Paintsville High and Joe Chirico’s Tigers beating Beechwood at Georgetown College last night?!…

Okay, who among you is going to claim you saw Paintsville beating three-time defending State Football Champion in the 1A classification, Beechwood High School, last night (19-14). Well, outside of the Paintsville locker-room, we probably aren’t going to believe you.

Beechwood has moved up to 2A and is being touted as a championship contender in the new classification. Paintsville showed them, at Georgetown College last night, there were still some teams in its old classification which could give them a kicking in the backside.

Overall we went 50-26 last night for a winning percentage of .65789474, or right at 66%. So, you see, we really do know about what we are talking around KPGFootball. If you think you could do better, start your own on-line magazine. It’s a free country.

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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