2025 KANSAS FALL TOP 40 STUDENT SECTION PRESEASON RANKINGS

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In 2015, yours truly began covering Student Sections in Orange County, California. We expanded to Southern California in 2017 and in 2021, we added four more states and added 15 more states. We went to 40 states two years ago.

We went to all 50 states in winter of 2023 and now we add our friends from the North in Canada on top of dividing Texas into two regions, similar to what we did with California. No one has ever done that before…until now!

This is still a one-man operation for the most part, but we have some help with some partners on Instagram like good friends at OC Student Sections and Stadium Geeks with help from Maryland Student Section Rater, NorCal Student Sections and many more.

This year we plan to get several “barstool” pages that showcase Student Sections in their states. Some of those pages were very helpful last year as we get more accurate with our rankings.

I know that Student Sections have a lot of work to do to get the students to the games to cheer on their classmates and go along with the theme and make sure they don’t cause trouble. These student sections deserve recognition.

This past season, we several more Student Sections, including some big powerhouse ones that not only will be a top dawg in their state, but will be a big player in the National side!

We will kick off the Student Section season with Preseason Football Student Section Rankings. REMEMBER, this is a PREVIEW. It is merely a prediction. The real rankings come out in November or December. 

If you feel your student section isn’t ranked high enough or not ranked at all, let us know and we’ll keep a close eye on them.

Every week, we will also have Student Section of the Week for each state. Once you win Student Section of the Week, you can’t win it again, but you still have to battle for the top spot in your state and perhaps the Nation as we will also name a Football Student Section National Champion. 

We continue with the 2025 Fall Student Section Season with a preview of Kansas.

This state is pretty deep with great Student Sections, but I feel like it is top heavy. This state has some powerhouse Student Sections that can battle with the best of them in the nation.

Last Football season, we had the Blue Valley Northwest Dawgpound as the top Football Student Section in Kansas. The Dawgpound showed up on Instagram and loved showing off their Student Section. It is a tough task to take the top spot in the state and it will be even tougher to repeat. The Dawgpound will have to keep showing off their school spirit on Instagram. This will be a fun Fall with great Student Section.

In each state, we will name one student section to look out for. A student section that while they aren’t ranked super high or weren’t ranked high last year, they’re a Student Section to lookout for and for Kansas, it’s Kapaun Mt. Carmel Boneyard. This was a superpower in 2023, but they stopped showing off their Student Section last year. We were planning on visiting Kansas to check them out last year, but weren’t sure if they had the same group like they did the year before. We hope they bounce back in 2025 and if they do, they better show it off on Instagram!

Will Boneyard bounce back and take back the top spot or will the Dawgpound keep control of number one in The Sunflower State? Let’s find out.

2025 KANSAS FALL TOP 40 STUDENT SECTION PRESEASON RANKINGS

  1. Olathe South Birdhouse (2024 Rank: 2)

This looks like a fun Student Section based on the photos from Instagram. They love to show off their Student Section and you can’t blame them. If they want to end at number one, they’ll need to keep showing off their Student Section on Instagram, but it will take a lot more powder to end up on top in Kansas!

  1. Gardner Edgerton (2024 Rank: 3)
  2. Blue Valley Northwest Dawgpound (2024 Rank: 1)
  3. Kapaun Mt. Carmel Boneyard (2024 Rank: 6)
  4. Bishop Carroll (2024 Rank: 13)
  5. Maize South Bullpen (2024 Rank: 4)
  6. DeSoto Wildside (2024 Rank: 5)
  7. St. James Academy (2024 Rank: 8)
  8. Maize Red Rage (2024 Rank: 9)
  9. Eisenhower Zoo (2024 Rank: 7)
  10. Shawnee Mission South Raider Nation (2024 Rank: 11)
  11. Olathe Northwest Raven Nation (2024 Rank: 10)
  12. Mill Valley (2024 Rank: NR)
  13. Free State (2024 Rank: NR)
  14. Blue Valley North Stable (2024 Rank: 12)
  15. Olathe North Flight Crew (2024 Rank: 14)
  16. Hutchinson Squawk Squad (2024 Rank: 18)
  17. Olathe East Hawk Nation (2024 Rank: 15)
  18. Tonganoxie Big Red (2024 Rank: 17)
  19. Olathe West Owl Nation (2024 Rank: 16)
  20. Derby Den (2024 Rank: 20)
  21. Blue Valley Southwest Den (2024 Rank: 19)
  22. Douglass Kennel (2024 Rank: 21)
  23. Heston Hobbs Squad (2024 Rank: 24)
  24. Newton Tron (2024 Rank: 23)
  25. Valley Center Hornets Nest (2024 Rank: 27)
  26. East Hecklers (2024 Rank: 26)
  27. Moundridge D-Ridge Squad (2024 Rank: NR)
  28. Andover Jungle (2024 Rank: 28)
  29. Manhattan (2024 Rank: 34)
  30. Blue Valley West (2024 Rank: 22)
  31. Hays (2024 Rank: 31)
  32. Wichita East (2024 Rank: NR)
  33. Andale (2024 Rank: 30)
  34. Southwest Saline (2024 Rank: NR)
  35. St. Thomas Aquinas (2024 Rank: 29)
  36. Andover Central (2024 Rank: 33)
  37. Washburn Rural (2024 Rank: 36)
  38. Shawnee Mission Northwest (2024 Rank: 38)
  39. Great Bend (2024 Rank: NR)

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