Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

What a finish to the CIAC playoffs! There were wire-to-wire finishes, late-game heroics and historic feats by dominant teams.

We’ll break down all the results, hear from players and coaches, and take a look at the final GametimeCT Top 10 poll of the season.

Rundown:

0:00 - Football season closes with a bang
13:45 - Final GametimeCT Top 10 Poll
31:03 - Hand surges late to beat Killingly in Class SS title game
43:50 - Sheehan edges NWC in Class S title game
51:50 - Robinson leads Windsor past Bunnell in Class MM title game
1:02:45 - New Canaan makes it four straight in Class L
1:19:00 - Greenwich proves SPB wrong in Class LL title game
1:37:40 - Berlin wins Class M title in improbable fashion
1:57:41 - Thank you fans!

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Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

Rundown:

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Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

Wow, what a quarterfinal round in the CIAC playoffs! We saw upsets, blowouts, game-winning touchdowns and game-saving defensive plays. We’ll recap all of it, and we’ll also look ahead to a jam-packed semifinal round, where we break down every matchup and give our predictions.

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Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

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Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

It's our Thanksgiving football week preview episode! We'll breakdown all the important games on the slate that have playoff implications and hometown bragging rights. We'll also do more playoff point calculations. 

They break down those games, the latest GametimeCT Top 10 Poll and some of results from Week 11.

Rundown: 

0:00 - Intro
11:19 - Who's clinched. Who hasn't. 
16:13 - Thanksgiving week schedule
27:28 - GametimeCT Top 10 Poll
29:31 - Class LL Playoff Standings
33:06 - No. 9 Windsor rolls Bloomfield
35:30 Hartford co-op outlasts Ellington
45:55 - Class L Playoff Standings
49:37 - Class MM Playoff Standings
54:44 - Class M Playoff Standings
56:27 - Berlin routs Middletown
1:10:40 - Class SS Playoff Standings
1:15:00 - Class S Playoff Standings

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Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

Fall state championships are over, and all the focus has turned to football as the season nears the home stretch. With Thanksgiving football only a couple weeks away, the class playoff pictures are starting to take shape, and in this episode we’ll begin breaking down where each team stands in the race to qualify.

There were some big results in Week 10 that affected the outlook, as No. 4 St. Joseph took down No. 6 Wilton, No. 5 Greenwich rolled Darien, Southington beat Maloney in a thriller in overtime, and Rockville upset Cromwell/Portland in the final seconds.

They break down those games, the ensuing shake-up in the latest GametimeCT Top 10 poll and some of the week’s other big results.

Welcome back to another episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

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Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut.

It was a wild Week 9 in CIAC football, with huge upsets across the board on Friday night, as teams like Greenwich, Windsor, and Fairfield Prep all went down.

St. Joseph head coach Joe Della Vecchia also reached a huge milestone on Saturday.

They break down those games, the ensuing shake-up in the latest GametimeCT Top 10 poll, some of the week’s other big results, and, of course, give out their weekly shoutouts.

Rundown:

0:00 - Intro: Wilton pulls off a stunner!
4:15 - Wilton upsets Greenwich to rise in poll
9:38 - Southington stuns Windsor
12:15 - Hand prevails in ranked battle against Fairfield Prep
15:10 - New Canaan shuts out Staples with no Marinelli
19:00 - GametimeCT Top 10 Poll
24:59 - Glastonbury takes down Maloney
25:35 - No Jayden Allen, no problem for New Britain
26:21 - West Haven gets back on track
27:45 - Class LL standings
30:05 - South Windsor rolls East Hartford
30:30 - Cheshire enters Top 10 after Sheehan win
31:11 - Class L standings
34:45 - Barlow pulls off wild win over Masuk
38:35 - Class MM standings
40:45 - Della Vecchia earns 200th win with St. Joseph
48:45 - Guilford rallies past Amity
53:22 - Class M standings
56:25 - Class SS standings
1:00:30 - Woodland stays hot against Holy Cross
1:03:02 - Seymour comes back against Naugatuck
1:05:15 - Class S standings
1:09:14 Games to watch
1:14:16 - SHOUTOUTS

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Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut. 

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Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut. 

On this week's episode, SPB and Pete will recap the No. 1 New Canaan vs. No. 2 Greenwich matchup on Friday as well as another ranked battle on Saturday. Plus other action across the state.

We'll also take a look at the GametimeCT Top 10 Poll and see where things stand in the playoff standings for each class. 

RUNDOWN:

0:00 — Intro: A historic matchup leaves No. 1 still on top
5:00 — No. 1 New Canaan edges No. 2 Greenwich
17:10 — GametimeCT Top 10 Poll
29:30 — Woodland beats Ansonia for first time in 20 years
32:00 — Sheehan gets late stop to beat North Haven
36:15 — Bloomfield wins on blocked FG over NWC
36:55 — Class S playoff standings
38:13 — Nonnewaug knocks off ND-Prep
39:20 — Woodstock upsets Waterford
40:20 — Stratford stuns Weston
40:55 — Barlow knocks off New Fairfield
41:30 — Class SS playoff standings
44:25 — St. Joseph's defense does it again over Darien
49:50 — Berlin remains undefeated 
50:45 — Pomperaug routs Branford
51:35 — Class M playoff standings
55:46 — Class MM playoff standings
57:20 — Cheshire shuts out West Haven
1:00:05 — Pavia leads Newtown over Brookfield
1:01:05 — Class L playoff standings
1:04:55 — New Britain rallies past Glastonbury
1:08:43 — Class LL playoff standings
1:12:51 — Games to watch 
1:17:03 — SHOUTOUTS

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Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut. 

It's the midway point in the CIAC football season, so on this week's episode, hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga will take a look at how things stands in each Class as well as do a "fantasy football draft" of some of the top players in the state so far. 

They'll also briefly go over some of the game's from Week 6, including an improbable comeback from NFA and look at where the GametimeCT Top 10 poll stands heading into a huge matchup between No. 1 New Canaan and No. 2 Greenwich.

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