Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, a weekly look at high school football in Connecticut with GameTimeCT.com's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley.

Shelton gained some more support in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 Football as Hand coach Erik Becker gave his endorsement and Ridgefield gave No. 1 Greenwich everything it could handle. But otherwise it was a relatively quiet Week 2 as teams settled back into league play.

It's only a short-lived reprieve, however, as a stocked and overflowing schedule of pivotal interconference showdowns, set up by the CT HS Football Alliance, threatens to upset the balance of power in the GameTimeCT Top 10.

No. 6 Southington coach Mike Dury joins us to talk about one of those games: His 2-0 team's road trip to face No. 1 Greenwich Saturday.

So join us, won't you?

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