It's the third full week of high school football in Minnesota and the games are getting better and better. As teams close in on the midway point of the season, we're starting to define the contenders and pretenders. Check out FM 100.3 KFAN's Joe Nelson's "Fabulous Five" games of the week.

Surgeons worked to fuse fractured vertebrae in Jack Jablonski's neck Wednesday. It remains unclear whether the Benilde-St. Margaret sophomore will regain motor control lost after he suffered the injury during a high school hockey game.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was at Irondale High School for a town hall meeting Friday afternoon with Sen. Amy Kolbuchar and Gov. Mark Dayton. This fall, the New Brighton school will be the first-in-the-state to offer freshmen and sophomores advance courses that can earn them a two-year college degree.

The Osseo School District is making changes to its teacher-led science demonstrations after four students were injured in a classroom accident at Maple Grove Junior High. In a 71-page report, the district says the methanol "flash bottle" demonstration will not be allowed pending further review. It also calls for a more stringent approval process for science demonstrations and a detailed list of approved demonstrations.

BMTN and KFAN’s Joe Nelson is ready for another week of high school football, and it doesn’t get any better than the top two teams in Class 6A squaring off. Can Edina pull off back-to-back wins over perennial power houses Wayzata and Eden Prairie? Read his preview of the game, along with four other great matchups on the prep fields tonight.

Data is being collected by the Minnesota Department of Health for the first time in an effort to better examine how concussions affect high school athletes, WCCO reports. Officials are keeping tabs on 42 schools, where in the first seven weeks of the fall sports season, 373 student athletes have been diagnosed with a concussion.