The Logan Wildcats are playing in a bowl game on Friday night.

A bowl game?

The Rose Bowl? Fiesta Bowl? Cotton Bowl? Papajohns.com Bowl? Pizza Bowl?

No, that's silly.

The Logan High School football team is playing a prep bowl, Kentucky style, as the Wildcats are set to play in the Black Gold Bowl at Perry Central High School in Hazard, Ky., against the host Commodores.

Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Logan comes into the game with a 1-1 record after taking last week off.

Perry Central, a Kentucky 5A school and the equivalent of the West Virginia Triple-A team, is 3-0 with three convincing wins over Casey County (57-0), Knott Central (57-6) and Breathitt County (37-14).

High school bowl games are nothing new in the Bluegrass State.

In most cases a host school will grab some sponsors, dress up the field and bring in a team from elsewhere, sometimes across the state, or in this case, from another state.

The most famous nearby high school football bowl is the multi-game Pike County Bowl, which is hosted each year by Belfry and Pikeville.

During the annual Apple Festival in Paintsville, Ky., they play the Apple Bowl as the Johnson County rival Paintsville Tigers and Johnson Central Golden Eagles battle it out for the Apple Barrel Trophy.

There are lots of bowls in Kentucky, particularly early in the season.

“Everything is a bowl game in Kentucky,” Logan coach Gary Mullins quipped earlier in the season when asked about the game with Perry Central.

Logan and Perry Central may be a long way away from each other, but the two schools have a common thread.

The Hatcher family.

Logan High School boys' basketball coach Mark Hatcher's dad, Allan, is the head hoops coach at Perry Central. The elder Hatcher brought his Commodores to Logan's Willie Akers Arena last winter to take part in the multi-game LB&T Classic as Perry Central played Tug Valley and won in a rout.

Coach Mullins said the football Commodores might be just as tough to beat as the basketball team was.

By looking at Perry Central's scores you might concur.

“It's going to be a good test for our team,” Mullins said. “They have a really good quarterback, Jordan Amis. He's pretty much a do-it-all guy. He'll throw it 15 times a game and he'll also run it about 20 times. They've started the season really well and we're looking forward to playing them in front of a big crowd. It's a bowl game and they have a big festival. We're looking forward to going down there and coming away with a victory.”

Perry Central opened the season back on Aug. 29 with a 57-0 win over Casey County in the TECO Bowl. The Commodores racked up more than 500 yards of total offense. Other top Perry players include running backs Kegan Robinson, Corey Martin and Brian Rankin and receiver Jay White. Rankin had a 59-yard TD run in the game. Amis hooked up with White on a 66-yard strike.

Amis was 6-of-15 passing for 148 yards with three TDs. He also had 90 yards rushing and two more scores. Robinson had 113 yards on just four rushes. White had two catches for 88 yards and two TDs.

The Commodores are led on defense by Matt Robinson, who had 20 tackles, including six for loss, in the win over Casey County.

Perry Central, a consolidated school formed in the late 1990s, is trying to wrap up the school's first-ever back-to-back playoff berths. The Commodores, coached by Bert Browne, went just 5-6 last season.

Mullins said Logan's off week went well. The Wildcats beat Lincoln County, 20-6, a couple of weeks ago.

“It has allowed us to rest up,” Mullins said. “The Lincoln County game gave us some confidence. We had a great week of practice and they worked really hard.”

Mullins said his team is injury-free.

“Everyone's ready to go,” he said.

Perry Central High School is a long haul – about three and a half hours away.

“We're going to be leaving about 2 o'clock,” Mullins said. “It's exciting for the kids. We're the only team from West Virginia who are playing them. It's a chance for us to experience Kentucky high school football. We're going over there to give them our best shot that we can give them. We're representing West Virginia and they are representing Kentucky. We want to show them that West Virginia football can compete anywhere. We're holding the banner for all of southern West Virginia this week.”

Logan is led by junior quarterback David Brown.