Kentucky high-school football, Week 8

Here are some blowouts from Thursday night to get the freakin' weekend in KHSAA football rolling:

Fairview (No. 3 in the Associated Press poll for Class 3A) 68 at Paintsville 20

Louisville DeSales (AP 2A No. 6t) 54 at Louisville Shawnee 12

Monroe County (AP 3A No. 8) 41 at Bowling Green South Warren 0

Morgan County (AP 3A No. 10) 42 at Knott County Central 0

Louisville Pleasure Ridge Park (AP 6A No. 4) 53 at Louisville Seneca 18

Louisville Ballard 42 at Louisville Eastern (AP 6A No. 5) 21

Louisville Butler (AP 6A No. 7) 50 vs. Louisville Southern 0

And here are some notables from the rest of the weekend's games:

Webster County at West Paducah Heath--It's going to be a long, sad trip home from West Paducah tonight, Trojans fans, so you might as well have some fun on the way over. Leave now, and you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the western half of Kentucky's U.S. 60 yard sale.

Frankfort (AP A No. 2) at Paris--Roadtrip for Great-Great-Grandma.

Campbellsville at Williamsburg (AP A No. 4)

Bellevue at Beechwood (AP A No. 5)

Raceland-Worthington (AP A No. 6) at Nicholas County

Harlan (AP A No. 10) at Hazard (AP A No. 7)--Hazard, the defending state champ, is 2-3. And now, writes John Middleton in The Harlan Daily Enterprise: "The talented Harlan senior class has been aiming to knock Class A power Hazard from atop the district since their sophomore season. That group will get one final shot on Friday."

Louisville Holy Cross at Louisville Kentucky Country Day (AP A No. 9)

Hancock County at Owensboro Catholic (AP 2A No. 1)--The visitors were effectively ranked 11th in this week's AP 2A poll.

Somerset (AP 2A No. 3) at Danville (AP 2A No. 2)--Game of the night in Kentucky?

Murray (AP 2A No. 4) at Crittenden County

Bardstown (AP 2A No. 5) at Christian Academy of Louisville

Middlesboro at Lexington Christian (AP 2A No. 6t)

Erlanger Lloyd Memorial at Newport Central Catholic (AP 2A No. 8) on Saturday--NewCath, the 2010 state champ, is 2-4. And now, here come some 6-1 Juggernauts.

Elizabethtown at Louisville Central (AP 3A No. 1)--Central, winner of four of the last five 3A state championships, is 5-1 with its only loss at 6A St. X two weeks ago.

Clay County at Bell County (AP 3A No. 3)

Belfry (AP 3A No. 4) at Ashland Blazer (AP 4A No. 6)

Bourbon County (AP 3A No. 5) at Garrard County

Casey County at Wayne County (AP 3A No. 7)

Paducah Tilghman (AP 3A No. 9) at Trigg County--If Tilghman struggles in Cadiz anywhere along the lines as it did last week at Fort Campbell, the Blue Tornado (winner of that odd 3A title in the last five years that Central didn't win but currently 4-3) might be on its way out of the AP poll. Corbin, which rolled, 64-6, at Stearns McCreary Central on Thursday night, was the 11th team in this week's poll, but the Redhounds are only 3-4. No. 13 Trigg County would be 5-2 win a win tonight, as would No. 12 Russell, with a victory over Mason County.

Pendleton County at Fort Thomas Highlands (unanimous AP 4A No. 1)--Highlands, winner of the 4A state title last season, the four 5A crowns before that and a bunch of 3A and 2A championships before then, is amazing.

Lexington Catholic (AP 4A No. 2) at Taylor County

Greenup County at Paintsville Johnson Central (AP 4A No. 9)

Jeffersontown at Elizabethtown John Hardin (AP 5A No. 2)

Woodford County at Franklin County (AP 5A No. 4)

Owensboro Apollo at Christian County (AP 5A No. 5)

Anderson County (AP 5A No. 6) at Nicholasville West Jessamine

Union Larry A. Ryle at Hebron Conner (AP 5A No. 7)

Union Randall K. Cooper (AP 5A No. 8) at Crestwood South Oldham

Harlan County (AP 5A No. 10) at Letcher County Central

Louisville Trinity (unanimous AP 6A No. 1) at Louisville duPont Manual--Steadily roll the 'Rocks, winners of four of Kentucky's five 6A football titles.

Louisville Saint Xavier (AP 6A No. 2) at Louisville Male (AP 6A No. 6)--Meanwhile, way down in Bowling Green, ...

Lexington Henry Clay at Scott County (AP 6A No. 3)

Henderson County (AP 6A No. 8) at Daviess County--Henderson County coach Clay Clevenger, to Kevin Patton of The Gleaner: "It's one of those things, the more you talk about it the more the players start thinking about it. If we put the ball on the ground in practice, sometimes I might blow up about it, but other times I just act like I didn't see it."

Boone County at Independence Simon Kenton (AP 6A No. 9)

Lexington Bryan Station (AP 6A No. 10) at Lexington Paul Dunbar--The visitors replaced Louisville Ballard in this week's Class 6A Top 10, but then Ballard went out last night and got an upset win at No. 5 Eastern.

Reidland at Barlow Ballard Memorial

Owensboro at Calloway County--Calloway County star runner Stephen Treadaway to Jack Kees of the Murray Ledger & Times: "Since Owensboro beat Lone Oak, that put a whole new spin on things, as far as Lone Oak not being the glorified team and everything, and it’s just a whole new ballgame for everyone, everyone has a chance this year and we hope that we get it."

Fulton City at Gleason (Tenn.)

Ohio County at Graves County

Madisonville-North Hopkins at Mortons Gap Hopkins County Central--A couple of pictures from last week's CHS loss to visiting Calloway County. The nachos looked better than the game.

Muhlenberg County at Marshall County

Butler County at Todd County Central

Lots, too, idling this week, including Mayfield (AP A No. 1), Russellville (AP A No. 8), Glasgow (AP 2A No. 9), Caldwell County (AP 2A No. 10), Breathitt County (AP 3A No. 2), Fort Campbell (AP 3A No. 6), Covington Catholic (AP 4A No. 3), Russell County (AP 4A No. 4), Barbourville Knox Central (AP 4A No. 5), Bowling Green Warren East (AP 4A No. 7), Boyle County (AP 4A No. 8), Lone Oak (AP 4A No. 10), Bowling Green (AP 5A No. 1), Bowling Green Warren Central (AP 5A No. 3) and Bowling Green Greenwood (AP 5A No. 9).

Previous reports:

-- Week 1 roundup, western Kentucky results and the Lexington Herald-Leader's preseason rankings

-- Week 2 roundup and western Kentucky results

-- Week 3 roundup and western Kentucky results

-- Week 4 roundup and western Kentucky results

-- Week 5 roundup and western Kentucky results

-- Week 6 roundup and western Kentucky results

-- Week 7 roundup