We’ve reached the penultimate week of the 2023 regular season, the week where we set the Thanksgiving table and learn, definitively, who is in and who needs what to qualify for the CIAC playoffs.

And, yes, your crack staff at GameTimeCT hunkered down with our slide rules and abacuses this weekend so that we may give you our best estimates on the latest scenarios heading into the final week and a half.

We also run down the latest top 10 poll and recap some of last week’s big games, beginning with No. 9 Ansonia’s 35-0 takedown of Oxford in an unbeaten NVL battle at Jarvis Stadium last week in, perhaps, a harbinger of playoff matchups to come.

We also recap the return of North Haven coach Tony Sagnella from his weekend suspension and sift through the ongoing soap opera in Monroe, where Masuk’s seniors have risen about the controversy surrounding their coaching staff, to deliver an emphatic, playoff-qualifying victory over New Milford.

Don’t miss our weekly shoutouts and a look at the upcoming NEPSAC Bowl championship games.

So join us, won’t you?

RUNDOWN

0:00 — Introduction

3:34 — Ansonia knocks off unbeaten Oxford, heads into Thanksgiving 9-0

9:42 — Week 11 GameTimeCT Top 10 Football Poll (Nos. 10-7)

11:38 — Sagnella returns from suspension for No. 6 North Haven

12:49 — Week 11 GameTimeCT Top 10 Football Poll (Nos. 5-1)

14:53 — 2023 Playoff Scenarios: Explaining CIAC's playoff formula and website issues

19:45 — Class S Playoff Scenarios (North Branford's huge win)

22:38 — Class SS Playoff Scenarios

25:16 — Class M Playoff Scenarios

26:35 — Class MM Playoff Scenarios (Cheshire in trouble)

32:22 — Class L Playoff Scenarios

34:22 — Class LL Playoff Scenarios (Can Fairfield Prep pull this off??)

43:20 — Seniors rise above the mess at Masuk

54:42 — SHOUTOUTS

1:03:43 — Suffield Academy upsets Cheshire Academy, NEPSAC Bowl matchups announced

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