The Weekend’s BIGGEST upset! Week “zero” in the books (Featured Photo: Bac Totrong/Daily News)!

Kentucky high school football is getting harder and harder to forecast. We picked all of the weekend’s 113 football games played and were only right 63 times, with a whopping 50 “misses.” For us…not up to our standards (why do I hear former writer Fletcher Long smirking somewhere?).

We believe we will be more accurate going forward as scrimmages are difficult to decipher. Now we have some real games to evaluate and teams will be out there playing the best personnel available and running whatever it takes to win.

There was some HUGE upsets this weekend and it shouldn’t go without mention. In this article, we will highlight the biggest upset imaginable while mentioning another huge upset. Both of these games, which literally no one could have forecast, really gave my opening weekend quite the black-eye, if you will.

The biggest upset in week zero, and a game no one outside the Gators’ locker-room would have ever forecasted, had to be Greenwood’s 28-14 victory over 2017 & 2018, Class 4A State Champion, Franklin-Simpson. Why was it such an upset? Well, lets take a look at it.

First, the teams played a year ago. The game was at the Gators’ lair and Franklin-Simpson won 50-7. Secondly, Greenwood was coming off a 2-9 mark in 2018 which included losses to 5-7 Hopkinsville, a 55-7 beat-down to district foe South Warren, a 49-7 beat-down to Bowling Green, a 42-7 loss to Highlands, and a 47-14 beat-down to Owensboro Sr. High.

Greenwood only scored 178 points in 2018 while allowing over 400. They only managed 932 yards total offense in its eleven games.

Franklin-Simpson, on the other hand, beat ACS 54-14 (a team Greenwood lost to 27-7). Franklin-Simpson beat Warren East 47-0 ( a team Greenwood lost to 47-30). Oh yeah, and there’s that small detail of Franklin-Simpson winning the Class 4A football championship for the second consecutive year, going 13-2 in the process.

Sure, Franklin-Simpson lost 15 seniors. However, Greenwood lost 18 themselves, from off a 2 win team, and the game was being played in the friendly confines of Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky.

So what does it mean going forward? Greenwood, who exactly no one was forecasting to do better, in Class 5A, District 2 than 4th (last), certainly looks to be a threat to win the district now. If week zero is an indication, it would appear likely last-place in District 2 may be the Bowling Green/Christian County loser when those two teams meet October 18th in Bowling Green with Greenwood battling South Warren for the district crown on the same night at Greenwood High School.

Runner-up for biggest upset of the weekend was Father Ryan over the Purples of Bowling Green High School. Ryan was 2-10 in 2018. The reason why Greenwood gets the nod over Ryan is look at whom Ryan has to play every year.

Ryan plays the likes of Brentwood Academy, Ensworth, MBA, Ravenwood (Brentwood, TN), McAllie (Chattanooga), and Pope John Paul II (Hendersonville, TN). Really good teams, like Ryan may have shown itself to be, can lose 10 games quickly playing competition like that.

There’s another big slate of action upcoming this next weekend and we will be picking those games this next week. We certainly will be looking to improve on our abysmal performance from this opening weekend. Going 65-48 would have looked a lot better.

One can hardly fault us for missing on Father Ryan over Bowling Green in Bowling Green or Greenwood over Franklin-Simpson in Franklin, Kentucky. Can they?

Reporting for KPGFootball, this is Coach H.B. Lyon, reminding all of you we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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