Finally, an easy one for Mount Carmel.
After weeks and weeks (five in all) of being put through the gauntlet and coming out just slightly worse, with a 2-3 record, for wear, the Red Tornadoes have what should be a relatively easy game - Hughesville.
The Spartans are 1-6 with their lone win coming against North Penn, as opposed to the North Schuylkill Spartans, who took Mount Carmel to the wire last week.
For the Red Tornadoes, this should be a week to catch their breath before things get real, fast.
After Hughesville, Mount Carmel's regular season winds down with trips to Selinsgrove and the annual Coal Bucket game with Shamokin.
But Carmen DeFrancesco's team isn't going to hear from him that they can take a break this week.
"This is not a 1-6 football team," DeFrancesco said. "They have a pretty effective wing-T offense and throw in a little option in there. The way we're playing defense, we can take any game lightly and after the way we played the option last week, I'd expect to see more of that this week."
Hughesville's Alec Walter is the Spartans' leading rusher with 465 yards and two touchdowns, but is only listed at 5-foot, 5-inches and 130 pounds. Next on the rushing list Dakota Nixon with 357 yards.
The good things Mount Carmel has done over the last two weeks include wins over Central Columbia (6-1) and rival North Schuylkill (4-3). The Red Tornadoes, after watching Luke Klingerman run for a single-game record in a loss at Montoursville, have diversified the offense.
Quarterback Zach Wasilewski has been in the very thick of it. In Klingerman's absence against Central Columbia, the junior signal caller rushed for a career high 195 yards and three touchdowns. Then last week against North Schuylkill, Mount Carmel's coaches gave Wasilewski's legs a rest and put his arm on display.
Against a young North Schuylkill secondary Wasilewski completed 14-of-20 passes for 315 yards, also a new single-game record breaking the one established by his brother Marcus with 307 yards against Chichester in 2007.
"We had a combination we went to all night long," DeFrancesco said. "It was an exciting win, but it wasn't easy."
On the receivng end of nearly half of Wasilewski's throws was Robbie Varano, who also broke a 56-year-old single-game record for receiving held by Frank Niglio.
All this is to say opponents may be flipping a coin when choosing to defend the run or the pass.
"We have to be a handful on film," DeFrancesco said. "We have to be an absolute nightmare to prepare for. Last week, we pummeled them with the pass. You can never count us out."