Friday Night Lights are back and the Kansas high school football season is officially underway. And The Wichita Eagle has you covered for updated game scores from around the Wichita area. Below is a list of scores from the Week 5 schedule for games played on Friday, October 4.

The 2024 Kansas high school football season continues this week with several big matchups across the state on Friday night, including Derby vs. Hutchinson. One game specifically to look for will be Gardner-Edgerton hosting the East Lancers.

Here are scores from this week’s high school football games around the Kansas City metro. Blair Oaks (Mo.) 59, Blue Valley Southwest 28 Oak Park 52, St. Joseph Central 13 St. Michael the Archangel 30, Van Horn 20

To put together the poll, The Star asks high school football coaches around the metro for their nominations and looks at statistics posted by schools on high school sports websites like 810 Varsity and MaxPreps. The Week 3 winner was Basehor-Linwood High School senior Nick Doering.

Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every KSHSAA classification of Kansas high school football heading into Week 5

Halfway through the high school football regular season and the rankings keep changing. Here are the Week 5 media rankings.