If football games were like seesaws, imagine Charlie Weis on one side and Lou Holtz on the other.

The scoreboard at the end of the Gateway-Connellsville game tomorrow night might be that one-sided.

No WPIAL Class AAAA team scores more points than Gateway. No WPIAL Class AAAA team allows more points than Connellsville.

The Gators have the second highest-scoring offense in the entire WPIAL. The Falcons have the seventh worst defense in the WPIAL.

The two teams will meet at Gateway tomorrow night, and this one could get ugly.

Gateway (7-0, 5-0), the Post-Gazette's top-ranked team in WPIAL Class AAAA, averages 43.9 points per game and will play host to Connellsville (0-7, 0-5), which allows an average of 36.9 points per game.

The Falcons have scored 26 points this entire season. The Gators have scored more than 26 points in every game but one, a 19-7 season-opening win against Penn Hills. Twice, they've doubled that number.

The Gators are led by senior quarterback Rob Kalkstein, a four-year starter who could become the fourth WPIAL quarterback to throw for 6,000 career passing yards. Kalkstein has 1,207 yards passing and 12 touchdown passes this season.

The Gators overcame a slow first half to pound Foothills Conference foe Erie McDowell, 35-17, last week. Kalkstein threw for 228 yards passing in the win.

McDowell's two losses came to the No. 1 Gators and second-ranked McKeesport.

The Class AAA Greater Allegheny Conference is waiting for someone to step up.

Four teams, including Franklin Regional (5-2, 2-1), are tied for the top spot in the conference. Hampton (4-3, 2-1) upset Mars Area (4-3, 2-1) 10-7 last week to create a tie between the Panthers, the Talbots, the Planets and Knoch (2-5, 2-1).

Each school has one game remaining against a fellow first-place team before the end of the regular season next week.

Franklin Regional has the best overall record of the tied teams, and the Panthers will play host to Hampton tomorrow night before travelling to Indiana (1-6, 1-2) in next week's season finale.

McKeesport has long taken a pass on passing.

But last week's 53-10 win over Norwin took the Tigers' run-heavy reputation to a new level.

McKeesport (6-1, 5-0) did not attempt a pass in the Foothills Conference blowout. Instead, the Tigers, the Post-Gazette's No. 2 WPIAL Class AAAA team, ran all over the Knights, gaining 503 yards rushing.

Two different McKeesport players rushed for more than 150 yards -- Darien Robinson (245 yards) and Ty-Meer Brown (157 yards).

Those two Tigers did it with remarkable efficiency. Robinson had only six carries (a 40.8 yard per carry average) and Brown had just four carries (a 39.25 yard per carry average).

Robinson scored two touchdowns on runs of 83 and 78 yards. Brown also scored twice, running in from 65 and 60 yards out. The Tigers had more rushing yards than any WPIAL Class AAAA team had total yards last week.

But they weren't alone in their ground-based glory.

Like McKeesport, all of Bethel Park's offense came on the ground. The Black Hawks ran for 402 yards in a 40-13 win over Peters Township. But, unlike McKeesport, Bethel Park tried to throw the ball (0-for-4 with an interception).

The Tigers will play at Hempfield (2-5, 1-4) tomorrow night before next week's showdown against No. 1 Gateway (7-0, 5-0) at McKeesport.

Hard to tell who had a more disappointing week -- Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor or his alma mater, Jeannette.

Pryor and the No. 7 Buckeyes were shocked by lowly Purdue, 26-18, on Saturday. The Boilermakers entered the game without a Big Ten Conference win. Its only win came against Toledo, and the Boilers lost earlier this season to Northern Illinois at home.

Jeannette, which had not lost to Wash-ington in eight years, surrendered a 10-point fourth-quarter lead to the Prexies. Washington beat Jeannette, 24-16.

The Jayhawks were outscored, 18-0, in the final quarter of last week's loss.

And just as Pryor and the Buckeyes likely said goodbye to a BCS bowl, Jeannette is in jeopardy of missing out on the playoffs for the first time since 1993.

The Jayhawks (5-2) are in a five-way tie for second place of the Interstate Conference, and only the top-four teams make the postseason.

Worse yet for Jeannette, the next two games are challenging. Jeannette will travel to conference leader Mount Pleasant (7-0) tomorrow night, and next week the Jayhawks will welcome rival Greensburg Central Catholic (5-2).

For the record, Pryor and the Buckeyes still have to play No. 13 Penn State, No. 7 Iowa and perennial rival Michigan.

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