Who’s ranked in the top 10? The first Kansas high school football rankings (Sept. 5)

Taylor Eldridge
Andale High School/Courtesy

Following Week 1 games last Friday night, Varsity Kansas introduces its first Kansas high school football state rankings for the 2022 season.

Class 6A rankings

1. Blue Valley Northwest (1-0)

This week: vs. St. Thomas Aquinas (1-0). Last week: 35-21 win at St. James Academy.

2. Manhattan (1-0)

This week: vs. Topeka (0-1). Last week: 26-23 overtime win at Derby.

3. Derby (0-1)

This week: at Salina South (0-1). Last week: 26-23 overtime loss vs. Manhattan.

4. Olathe West (1-0)

This week: vs. Lawrence (0-1). Last week: 33-6 win at Lawrence Free State.

5. Wichita Northwest (0-1)

This week: vs. Wichita Heights (0-1). Last week: 53-41 loss at Bishop Carroll.

6. Blue Valley West (0-1)

This week: vs. Blue Valley North (0-1). Last week: 31-7 loss at St. Thomas Aquinas.

7. Blue Valley (1-0)

This week: vs. St. James Academy (1-0). Last week: 28-21 win at Blue Valley Southwest.

8. Olathe North (1-0)

This week: vs. Shawnee Mission Northwest (1-0). Last week: 26-6 win vs. Olathe East.

9. Olathe South (1-0)

This week: at Shawnee Mission North (1-0). Last week: 36-32 win at Lawrence.

10. Washburn Rural (1-0)

This week: at De Soto (1-0). Last week: 49-42 win at Wichita East.

Also considered: Garden City (1-0); Gardner-Edgerton (1-0); Junction City (0-1); Shawnee Mission Northwest (1-0); Wichita East (0-1); Wichita Heights (0-1).

Class 5A rankings

1. Mill Valley (1-0)

This week: vs. Shawnee Mission West (0-1). Last week: 40-0 win at Olathe Northwest.

2. Maize (1-0)

This week: at Andover Central (1-0). Last week: 78-7 win at Topeka.

3. Bishop Carroll (1-0)

This week: at Wichita South (0-1). Last week: 53-41 win vs. Wichita Northwest.

4. Kapaun Mt. Carmel (1-0)

This week: vs. Wichita East (0-1). Last week: 51-0 win at Wichita South.

5. Maize South (1-0)

This week: at Campus (0-1). Last week: 44-16 win vs. Andover.

6. Hays (1-0)

This week: at Great Bend (0-1). Last week: 33-21 win vs. Junction City.

7. Hutchinson (1-0)

This week: at Newton (0-1). Last week: 27-20 win vs. Goddard Eisenhower.

8. Blue Valley Southwest (0-1)

This week: at Bishop Miege (1-0). Last week: 28-21 loss vs. Blue Valley.

9. Spring Hill (1-0)

This week: at Tonganoxie (0-1). Last week: 46-13 win at Bonner Springs.

10. De Soto (1-0)

This week: vs. Washburn Rural (1-0). Last week: 27-21 win at Lansing.

Also considered: Andover (0-1); Emporia (1-0); Goddard Eisenhower (0-1); Leavenworth (1-0); Salina Central (1-0); Topeka Seaman (1-0).

Class 4A rankings

1. Bishop Miege (1-0)

This week: vs. Blue Valley Southwest (0-1). Last week: 40-14 win at Blue Valley North.

2. St. Thomas Aquinas (1-0)

This week: at Blue Valley Northwest (1-0). Last week: 31-7 win vs. Blue Valley West.

3. St. James Academy (0-1)

This week: at Blue Valley (1-0). Last week: 35-21 loss vs. Blue Valley Northwest.

4. McPherson (1-0)

This week: vs. Augusta (0-1). Last week: 44-27 win vs. Great Bend.

5. Chanute (1-0)

This week: vs. Pittsburg (0-1). Last week: 38-14 win at Augusta.

6. Andover Central (1-0)

This week: vs. Maize (1-0). Last week: 35-13 win at Buhler.

7. Wamego (1-0)

This week: at Marysville (0-1). Last week: 45-6 win vs. Clay Center.

8. Basehor-Linwood (1-0)

This week: at Kansas City Piper (1-0). Last week: 47-42 win vs. Tonganoxie.

9. Buhler (0-1)

This week: at Circle (1-0). Last week: 35-13 loss vs. Andover Central.

10. Arkansas City (1-0)

This week: at Andover (0-1). Last week: 43-14 win vs. Winfield.

Also considered: Atchison (1-0); Circle (1-0); Eudora (1-0); Kansas City Piper (1-0); Paola (1-0); Rose Hill (0-1).

Class 3A rankings

1. Andale (1-0)

This week: at Rose Hill (0-1). Last week: 63-14 win at Wellington.

2. Topeka Hayden (1-0)

This week: at Silver Lake (1-0). Last week: 21-7 win vs. Olpe.

3. Wichita Collegiate (1-0)

This week: at El Dorado (0-1). Last week: 28-6 win vs. Rose Hill.

4. Holton (0-1)

This week: vs. Sabetha (1-0). Last week: 35-28 loss vs. Nemaha Central.

5. Rock Creek (0-1)

This week: at St. Marys (1-0). Last week: 38-26 loss at Southeast-Saline.

6. Wellsville (1-0)

This week: vs. Iola (1-0). Last week: 40-6 win at Anderson County.

7. Girard (1-0)

This week: vs. St. Mary’s Colgan (1-0). Last week: 20-15 win at Columbus.

8. Hesston (1-0)

This week: at Pratt (1-0). Last week: 21-14 win vs. Hoisington.

9. Concordia (1-0)

This week: vs. Abilene (1-0). Last week: 26-20 win vs. Chapman.

10. Pratt (1-0)

This week: vs. Hesston (1-0). Last week: 67-0 win vs. Larned.

Also considered: Cheney (0-1); Frontenac (0-1); Galena (1-0); Holcomb (1-0); Parsons (1-0); Perry-Lecompton (0-1).

Class 2A rankings

1. Southeast-Saline (1-0)

This week: at Beloit (0-1). Last week: 38-26 win vs. Rock Creek.

2. Nemaha Central (1-0)

This week: vs. Royal Valley (0-1). Last week: 35-28 win at Holton.

3. Rossville (0-1)

This week: at Riley County (0-1). Last week: 20-13 loss at St. Marys.

4. Kingman (1-0)

This week: vs. Conway Springs (0-1). Last week: 28-14 win at Cheney.

5. Osage City (1-0)

This week: vs. Burlington (1-0). Last week: 58-6 win vs. Mission Valley.

6. Thomas More Prep (1-0)

This week: vs. Ellis (0-1). Last week: 26-13 win at Oakley.

7. Silver Lake (1-0)

This week: vs. Topeka Hayden (1-0). Last week: 28-21 win at Riley County.

8. Sabetha (1-0)

This week: at Holton (0-1). Last week: 28-14 win vs. Perry-Lecompton.

9. Humboldt (1-0)

This week: vs. Caney Valley (1-0). Last week: 54-18 win at Fredonia.

10. Garden Plain (1-0)

This week: vs. Cheney (0-1). Last week: 6-0 win at Conway Springs.

Also considered: Caney Valley (1-0); Chaparral (1-0); Beloit (0-1); Ellsworth (1-0); Halstead (1-0); Haven (1-0); Hillsboro (0-1); Hoisington (0-1).

Class 1A rankings

1. St. Marys (1-0)

This week: vs. Rock Creek (0-1). Last week: 20-13 win vs. Rossville.

2. Olpe (0-1)

This week: vs. Bishop Ward (1-0). Last week: 21-7 win at Topeka Hayden.

3. Inman (1-0)

This week: vs. Sedgwick (0-1). Last week: 46-12 win vs. Marion.

4. Smith Center (1-0)

This week: at Norton (1-0). Last week: 29-21 win vs. Phillipsburg.

5. Pittsburg-St. Mary’s Colgan (1-0)

This week: at Girard (1-0). Last week: 14-12 win at Frontenac.

6. Troy (1-0)

This week: at Valley Falls (0-1). Last week: 28-22 vs. Wabaunsee.

7. Centralia (1-0)

This week: vs. Christ Prep Academy (1-0). Last week: 34-14 win at Valley Heights.

8. Hutchinson Trinity (1-0)

This week: vs. Remington (0-1). Last week: 24-18 win at Sedgwick.

9. Jackson Heights (1-0)

This week: at Maur Hill-Mt. Academy (1-0). Last week: 61-7 win vs. Horton.

10. Sedgwick (0-1)

This week: at Inman (1-0). Last week: 24-18 loss vs. Hutchinson Trinity.

Also considered: Conway Springs (0-1); Ellinwood (1-0); Jefferson County North (1-0); Marion (0-1); Oakley (0-1); Onaga (1-0); Wabaunsee (0-1).

8-man Div. I rankings

1. Wichita County (1-0)

This week: at Elkhart (1-0). Last week: 76-0 win at Wheatland-Grinnell.

2. Little River (0-1)

This week: vs. Rural Vista (0-1). Last week: 66-36 loss at Canton-Galva.

3. Chase County (1-0)

This week: at Colony-Crest (1-0). Last week: 60-8 win at Frankfort.

4. Meade (1-0)

This week: at Hodgeman County (1-0). Last week: 48-0 win at South Central.

5. South Sumner County (1-0)

This week: vs. Norwich (0-1). Last week: 58-0 win at Cedar Vale-Dexter.

6. Hill City (1-0)

This week: vs. WaKeeney-Trego (0-1). Last week: 58-12 win at Osborne.

7. Clifton-Clyde (1-0)

This week: Blue Valley-Randolph (0-1). Last week: 52-6 win at Hanover.

8. Madison (1-0)

This week: vs. Marais des Cygnes Valley (0-1). Last week: 66-6 win at Hartford.

9. Burlingame (1-0)

This week: vs. Lebo (0-1). Last week: 46-0 win at Marais des Cygnes Valley.

10. West Elk (1-0)

This week: vs. Oxford (1-0). Last week: 50-0 win at Udall.

Also considered: Argonia-Attica (1-0); Burden-Central (1-0); Ell-Saline (1-0); Elkhart (1-0); Goessel (1-0); Hoxie (1-0); La Crosse (1-0); Topeka Cair Paravel (0-1); West Elk (1-0).

8-man Div. II rankings

1. Axtell (1-0)

This week: vs. Hartford (0-1). Last week: 82-38 win at Topeka Cair Paravel.

2. Canton-Galva (0-1)

This week: at Goessel (1-0). Last week: 66-36 win vs. Little River.

3. Thunder Ridge (1-0)

This week: at Rock Hills (0-1). Last week: 74-58 win vs. Alma (Neb.)

4. Victoria (1-0)

This week: vs. La Crosse (1-0). Last week: 49-0 win vs. Kinsley.

5. Dighton (1-0)

This week: vs. Rawlins County (1-0). Last week: 50-0 win at Decatur County.

6. Colony-Crest (1-0)

This week: vs. Chase County (1-0). Last week: 58-0 win at Yates Center.

7. South Barber (1-0)

This week: vs. Pretty Prairie (1-0). Last week: 36-32 win at Pratt Skyline.

8. Bucklin (1-0)

This week: vs. Kiowa County (0-1). Last week: 24-20 win at Spearville.

9. Lebo (0-1)

This week: at Burlingame (1-0). Last week: 20-14 loss vs. Lyndon.

10. Stafford (1-0)

This week: vs. Pratt Skyline (0-1). Last week: 50-0 win at Fairfield.

Also considered: Beloit-St. Johns-Tipton (1-0); Frankfort (0-1); Hodgeman County (1-0); Minneola (1-0); Osborne (0-1); St. Paul (1-0); Wheatland-Grinnell (0-1).

6-man rankings

1. Cunningham (1-0)

This week: vs. Natoma (0-1). Last week: 38-30 win at Ashland.

2. Northern Valley (1-0)

This week: at Tescott (1-0). Last week: 38-0 win vs. Natoma.

3. Ashland (0-1)

This week: vs. Golden Plains (0-1). Last week: 38-30 loss vs. Cunningham.

4. Waverly (1-0)

This week: at Altoona-Midway (1-0). Last week: 48-0 win at Southern Coffey County.

5. Natoma (0-1)

This week: at Cunningham (0-1). Last week: 38-0 loss at Northern Valley.

6. Triplains-Brewster (1-0)

This week: vs. Ingalls (1-0). Last week: 60-13 win vs. Deerfield.

7. Cheylin (1-0)

This week: vs. Weskan (1-0). Last week: 45-27 win at Cheyenne Wells (Colo.).

8. Moscow (1-0)

This week: Open. Last week: 34-13 win at Pawnee Heights.

9. Tescott (1-0)

This week: vs. Northern Valley (1-0). Last week: 43-6 win at Peabody-Burns.

10. Burrton (1-0)

This week: vs. Southern Cloud (0-1). Last week: 79-71 win vs. Centre.

Also considered: Altoona-Midway (1-0); Ingalls (1-0); Peabody-Burns (0-1); Weskan (1-0); Wetmore (1-0)

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