The second week of the high school football season saw some thrilling matchups and big-time upsets.
Area teams set up what should be an epic district championship round of the Missouri state playoffs while others' hard-fought seasons came to an end.
Here are some takeaways from what happened Friday night:
Bolivar is for real and will be a threat in the Ozark Conference
Perhaps the most intriguing game of the weekend was played in West Plains when future conference-foes tried to keep their seasons alive.
Bolivar entered the night undefeated but played an independent schedule but the Liberators showed it wasn't a fluke.