It’s still early, but Week 2 will have a lasting impact on the Southland football season.

A schedule filled with showdowns did not disappoint. At places like Lincoln-Way Central, Brother Rice and Mount Carmel, the joy that comes with beating your biggest rival will not wear off anytime soon.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, which 0-2 teams are in trouble?

Let’s take a look with my Week 2 impressions.

The Knights take New Lenox … for now

Go back a few years and it would have been ludicrous to suggest Lincoln-Way Central could beat Providence.

But things have changed quickly for the Knights under coach Dave Woodburn .

Still, it’s one thing to go on a run through a favorable bracket to the Class 7A semifinals last season and it’s another thing to show you can actually handle the

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