It’s the worst week in Kentucky high school football, this first week of the playoffs after a 10-game regular season. But how could that be, you ask, aren’t the playoffs the goal for every team?

Indeed, they are. But not every team should make the playoffs. There should be a reward, not one of those everybody-gets-a-trophy moments. But since almost every team advances – in four-team districts, every team does – and in Northern Kentucky, 20 teams here move on. Sorry, Holmes, as an unclassified team, you don’t go.

But a quick look at the matchups below of the top team in one district against the bottom team in an adjacent district and the second against the third makes it clear that nine of these games with Northern Kentucky teams are mismatches – like really serious ones with no chance fo

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