Something will need to give Friday when Mount Carmel travels to Lewisburg.
Last week against Selinsgrove, the Red Tornadoes held the Seals to just three yards rushing.
Thirty-some miles away in Lewisburg, the Green Dragons rushed for 399, led by Merle Moscarello's 167 yards and four touchdowns against Milton.
Moscarello also caught an 11-yard TD pass as the Green Dragons won by mercy rule over the Panthers.
So what will give first?
"This will be their strength versus our strength," Mount Carmel head coach Carmen DeFrancesco said. "Through two scrimmages and one game, no one has been able to run the football on us yet. Moscarello is a man. If you don't wrap him up and let him get into the open, he'll have a big game."
The matchup is one of several that will determine which team ultimately wins Division II of the Heartland Conference, and has tremendous playoff implications at such an early date on the calendar.
Both teams have dreams of Hershey, and Lewisburg, particularly after a run to the state semifinals a year ago and a loss to West Catholic, is looking for an opponent to test itself against.
"That's a heck of a football team," DeFrancesco said. "They're solid, well-schooled, fundamentally sound and well-coached. They play with a lot of confidence. You can see that on film, and to me, the swagger is well earned. We'll have our hands full."
Mount Carmel, trying to recapture past glory, will have a series of pop quizzes before the much bigger tests against Southern Columbia and North Schuylkill.
However, no matter how lights-out the Red Tornadoes defense plays, the offense must avoid the slow start it had against Selinsgrove.
Mount Carmel didn't cross the goal line until the third quarter and scored just three times, and once when Meyrick Lamb made a whole lot of something out of nothing for a 91-yard score.
For the Tornadoes, it was the perfect wake-up call.
"High school kids reacted the way they should when all they've heard is how good they are," DeFrancesco said. "We went into the game hearing that we were good from Scranton to Pottsville. We didn't play really well.
"We're a good team, but we didn't show it Friday night. We'll respond and have a good week of practice. We won't let what happened last year, happen this year. We're in the right frame of mind this year, and if you ask me, Friday was the type of medicine we needed."