Preseason Rankings August 29, 2026

Here we go again, with another high school football season about to kickoff. Preseason rankings are like taking a WAG or a SWAG if you like.

A WAG is a wild ass guess and a SWAG is a scientific wild ass guess.

So after reading that fantastic magazine, the Kansas Pregame, I have come to the conclusion or a SWAG if you like, to put the target on the back of these teams.

These rankings today will be kept in the history of rankings on this website, so we can look back, at the end of the season and see how we did!

On a more serious note, we wish the best, to all the teams in Kansas this year. Play to the best of your ability, in each and every game, and you will be able to look back, 40 years from now, and say, ‘I played to the my best of my ability.’

Super Top 10 All-Classes
1.   Mill Valley
2.   Manhattan
3.   St Thomas Aquinas
4.   Bishop Miege
5.   St James
6.   Kapaun
7.   Hays
8.   Blue Valley
9.   Olathe NW
10. Cheney
11. Derby
12. Andale

6A
1. Mill Valley
2. Manhattan
3. Olathe NW
4. Derby
5. Gardner-Edgerton
Others: none

5A
1. St James
2. Kapaun
3. Hays
4. Blue Valley
5. Salina Central
Others: none

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4A 
1. St Thomas Aquinas
2. Bishop Miege
3. Great Bend
4. Wamego
5. McPherson
Others: none

3A
1. Cheney
2. Andale
3. Holcomb
4. Santa Fe Trail
5. Jefferson West
Others: none

2A
1. Sabetha
2. Osage City
3. Council Grove
4. Silver Lake
5. Beloit
Others: none

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1A
1. Sterling
2. Smith Center
3. St Marys Colgan
4. Rossville
5. Inman
Others: none

8-man D-I
1. South Central
2. Oberlin-Decatur Co.
3. Trego Co.
4. Lincoln
5. Leoti-Wichita Co.
Others: none

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8-man D-II
1. Hanover
2. Axtell
3. Hutchinson Central Christian
4. Little River
5. Troy
Others: none

6-man
1. South Barber
2. Weskan
3. Ingalls
Others: none