And how quickly things have changed overall. Less than two months ago, a floundering Warriors team walked off its home field following a 22-point loss to Roy amid recruiting allegations and multiple investigations into team coaches and school officials.

Wednesday, Weber (6-4, 4-1 Region 1) finished its regular season and will take one of the best runs of form into the 6A playoffs as Wednesday’s quick, 42-14 win over Layton ensured the Warriors’ fourth straight win and sixth in the last seven games to close the regular season.

“It feels good just with everything that happened and how we started off,” senior Nakosi Swain said. “I feel like if we were to start the season over with just, like, what we are now, I feel like it’d be hard to beat us. Probably wouldn’t have lost any game.”

The Warriors started the year 0-3 and in the end, their only region loss was to region champion Davis. The Weber team got its final two region games to running clocks is a little different than the Weber team that got thumped by Roy and Pleasant Grove.

Two major turning points were the Sept. 1 game against Wasatch, the team’s first win, and the Sept. 22 upset win at Syracuse.

“I think (the Syracuse win) really just showed that we could beat anybody, we could really play with anybody in the state,” Swain said.

That night, the offensive line paved the way for a monster running game against a good defense. Weber head coach Jayson Anderson praised the O-line for how much it has improved this season after the O-line was one of the team’s biggest question marks in the summer.

“Feels great. We’re working as a team, we’re getting along together and it just feels good,” Weber offensive lineman Dakota Wilcox said. “Especially as a line, I think (the Syracuse win) switched our mentality, that we could like do anything up front and kick people’s butts and, if we play together, we can do anything.”

Any semblance of a contest disappeared quickly Wednesday against Layton (0-9, 0-5). Weber went nine plays and 60 yards on the opening drive to score on a Swain touchdown run.

On Layton’s next series, Madden Sargent threw to a wide-open Kanyon Loveland down the right sideline for what was about to be a walk-in, 69-yard touchdown until the ball went through Loveland’s hands.

Ian Elmore caught a 22-yard pass from fellow Layton transfer Crew Cacciacarne on the next Weber drive and Elmore picked off a double pass on the next Lancer possession.

Cacciacarne found Salesi Moa two plays later for a TD pass and a 21-0 Weber lead at the 11:18 mark in the second quarter.

The Lancers scored on a 7-yard pass from Sargent to Gabriel Lopez after a 47-yard catch by Ian Overton put Layton in the red zone.

Dyson Parker swept in for a TD run for Weber to put the Warriors up 28-6 at halftime, then Swain scored on their first drive of the second half (four plays, 60 yards) to make it 35-6.

Another four-play, 60-yard drive resulted in a reverse pass from Moa to Elmore in the corner of the end zone (42-6) to send the game to a running clock with 5:05 left in the third quarter.

Layton’s John Garlick had an interception in the first half and Dawson Pimental recovered a fumble at the 1-yard line as Weber’s Tyler Payne was trying to score in the third quarter.

Loveland eventually had a TD catch, snagging a 12-yarder with one second left in the game.

Swain led Weber with 139 yards on 14 carries and Parker added 92 yards on 10 carries. Cacciacarne threw 8 of 10 for 161 yards.

For Layton, Ryan Wensel threw for 80 yards and rushed for 64.

Weber did what it could in the regular season to put its name into the Region 1 title hat at the end, and as a side result, will likely end up as a double-digit playoff seed with a second-round road playoff game in two weeks.

Depending on who’s asked, the Warriors are happy with how things turned out this regular season, no matter what comes of Thursday’s impending Davis-Syracuse title showdown, where Weber needs Syracuse to win in order to force a three-way region title split.

“As of right now, yes,” Wilcox said. “Right now, it’s just about us.”

“We’re not satisfied at all,” Swain said. “We want to win region and do some damage in the playoffs.”

And head coach Anderson: “Obviously we’d love to share it, we’d love that opportunity, but it’s — we’re proud of what we accomplished and we have a winning season no matter what. We’re super excited about it, the kids played hard and they’ve earned it and I’m excited for them.”

Layton will make the playoffs, also as a double-digit seed, as 6A’s playoffs include all 18 teams. The Lancers will most likely end up as one of four teams in a first-round playoff game next week.

BOX ELDER 35, BONNEVILLE 6

BRIGHAM CITY — Damon Rodriguez scored two rushing touchdowns to lead Box Elder to a region win over Bonneville.

Rodriguez got Box Elder (8-2, 5-2 Region 5) on the board with a 1-yard dive at the 5:37 mark of the first quarter. Dax Sumko galloped 55 yards for a score and Ryan Griffin added a 1-yard sneak to put the Bees up 21-0 with 11:31 left in the first half.

Griffin connected with Cayden Anderson for a 43-yard touchdown pass to give Box Elder a 28-0 halftime lead. Rodriguez found the end zone again, on a 13-yard run, to cap BE’s scoring with 8:56 left in the third quarter.

Ashton Archuleta scored on a 1-yard run for Bonneville (5-5, 4-3) with 11:02 left in the game.

Sumko finished with 90 rushing yards and Rodriguez had 58. Anderson caught five passes for 101 yards.

FARMINGTON 38, FREMONT 17

FARMINGTON — Travis Hoopes rushed for 103 yards and Farmington pulled away from Fremont.

Easton Wight threw 13 of 18 for 138 yards and three touchdowns for Farmington (2-7, 2-3 Region 1).

Fremont (2-8, 1-4) did not report stats.

Justin B. Johnson and Brett Hein contributed to score reports.