In the early games, Luton kept up their automatic promotion challenge alive with victory over rivals Watford, while Blackpool remain deep in trouble after a 3-1 defeat at Preston in the Lancashire derby.
For Luton, victory over the Hornets in the first derby played at Kenilworth Road in front of fans for 17 years, lifted them to within three points of the top two before the rest of this afternoon's programme.
Head coach Rob Edwards, who began the season in charge of Watford, told BBC Three Counties Radio: "The players were outstanding, every single one of them, to the point where it made me emotional at the end.