Are teams as good as they looked in Week 1? As bad? Those are the thoughts heading into Week 2 of the season in District 9 football.

Of the 14 games on the schedule involving the district’s 26 teams –13 games Friday and one Saturday afternoon – only three games feature two 1-0 teams. In the Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference, Redbank Valley visits Union. The Allegheny Mountain League has Johnsonburg hosting Kane. The other unbeaten matchup has Karns City hosting District 10’s Hickory in an inter-district game.

Other noteworthy games have Brookville (1-0) hosting Clearfield (0-1) in the District 9 League and Curwensville (0-1) traveling to Elk County Catholic (1-0).

Here is a closer look at this week’s schedule:

If the Bisons have any hopes at a D-9 League title, it must beat Brookville. Clearfield was trounced by the Bradford Owls, 56-35, last week while Brookville edged Philipsburg-Osceola, 13-12, in a non-conference game.

Clearfield trailed 56-14 and were being Mercy Ruled by Bradford going into the fourth quarter before quarterback Andrew Janocko passed for three touchdowns against the Owls’ backup defense. He finished with 245 yards and four TDs.

While the numbers are inflated some because he played against the Owls’ backups, he’s still a big threat against Brookville, which must contain the Bisons’ vaunted passing game that also includes receivers Doug Kephart and Adam Jury.

Brookville will try to bust some big runs against a Clearfield defense that gave up 485 yards to Bradford’s running game that produced a rare three backs over 100 yards. The Raiders ran for 286 yards against Philipsburg-Osceola, getting two long TD runs from Max Kutz and Joe Galbraith, who finished with 126 and 93 yards respectively.

The DuBois Beavers (0-1) travel to Punxsutawney (0-1) in another league matchup. It’s the 91^st meeting between the longtime rivals. DuBois leads the all-time series, 56-31-3, and has won 9 of the last 11 games, including a 34-7 rout last year.

The status of DuBois senior Mark Malacarne will be a big factor in how Friday night goes. The do-it-all back was injured midway through the third quarter in last week’s 35-21 loss to Central Mountain came after he rushed for three touchdowns and 166 yards. He and quarterback James Conway left the game in the second half and their absence was felt just as much on the defensive side as Central Mountain outscored the Beavers 21-0 after halftime and amassed 374 yards of rushing.

The Beavers aren’t nearly as deep in talent as they were a year ago and any significant time without Malacarne in the lineup will not help the Beavers in their efforts to win a third straight league title.

Punxsutawney, 9-7 losers at Bellefonte last week, owns a 14-game losing streak dating back to the end of the 2004 season. The Chucks went 0-10 last year, losing by an average of 28.7 points per game, so perhaps second-year head coach Blake Moilan’s squad is making a turn for the better.

Clarion hosts Keystone at Clarion University and the Union Golden Knights entertain next-door rival Redbank Valley in two games featuring 1-0 teams in the Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference.

Union ended its 30-game losing streak with a 6-0 win over Cambridge Springs last week, getting a 76-yard scoring run from Nick Boltz. It’s Union’s first win since the 2002 season.

Redbank Valley opened with a 13-0 win over Keystone.

In the other two KSAC games, Clarion (1-0) hosts Keystone (0-1) at Clarion University and A-C Valley (0-1) visits Clarion-Limestone (0-1).

Johnsonburg and Kane square off in the Paper City Friday night in an AML South Division showdown. The Rams notched a 28-7 win over Port Allegany last week as Calvin Grumley scored two touchdowns and kicked a field goal. The Rams’ defense yielded just 127 total yards.

Kane slipped by Sheffield, 14-7, getting a fourth-quarter TD run from Matt Mix.

Coudersport continued to defend its AML supremacy by beating Curwensville, 20-12, last week for the third win over the Golden Tide in two years. The Falcons led 20-0 before the Tide scored twice in the second half. This week, the Falcons host Otto-Eldred (0-1). Curwensville tries to rebound with a trip to St. Marys Friday night to take on Elk County Catholic, which opened with a 26-0 shutout win over Otto-Eldred.

The Tide’s Nick Sipes went over 4,000 career yards, making him the fourth running back in D-9 history to achieve the milestone. He’s now 341 yards shy of tying his cousin, former Clarion Bobcats standout Kyle Cathcart.

Two resurgent AML teams, at least for now, Ridgway and Cameron County, will try to make it 2-0 in road trips. The Elkers travel to Brockway while the Red Raiders trek to Smethport.

Ridgway got a three-touchdown effort from Jerico Weitzel in a 22-0 win over Smethport while Cameron County erupted for 34 unanswered points in the second half to bounce Brockway, 34-6.

In the other AML game, Sheffield (0-1) hosts Port Allegany (0-1) Saturday afternoon.

The non-conference games are on the schedule this week and only one has two D-9 teams facing off. St. Marys (0-1) travels to Moniteau (1-0). The Dutch try to rebound from a 28-13 loss to Karns City while Moniteau blasted Clarion-Limestone 42-6.

Karns City (1-0) hosts Hickory (1-0) from District 10 and Bradford hosts Olean, N.Y., in the 109^th meeting between the teams. The Owls lead the series, 59-42-7, but lost last year 27-21 in double overtime.

The Owls lost two straight double OT games last year. That won’t happen this year as Bradford’s 56-35 rout of Clearfield got the Owls off on an impressive foot.

Two District 9 natives are starters for NCAA Division I-A football programs.

Brockway’s Kyle Smith is a 6-foot-2-inch, 290-pound junior offensive lineman for Central Florida, which opened the season with a 35-16 win over Villanova last weekend. Smith started at left guard, making it his 14^th straight start at that position for the Golden Knights dating back to the beginning of last year.

Smith started all 13 games in the Golden Knights’ turnaround 8-5 campaign that saw them bounce back from a winless 2004 to earn a berth in the Hawaii Bowl. There, UCF lost to Nevada 49-48 in overtime.

Smith and his Golden Knights are favored to win the Conference USA’s Eastern Division once again this year. Saturday, UCF visits No. 7 Florida.

At Akron, Kane’s Jared Cecchetti is the starting defensive tackle for the Zips, who opened with a 34-16 loss at Penn State last Saturday. Cecchetti, a 6-foot-2-inch, 264-pound junior, made one solo tackle.

Cecchetti played in 12 of the Zips’ 13 games last year, starting in one game and appeared in nine games as a freshman.

Both Smith and Cecchetti were standout performers in high school. Both were seniors during the 2003 season and earned all-state recognition. Cecchetti was named D9Sports.Com’s Defensive Player of the Year.