CFCC Week 12: Sideline Interviews with Last Week's Leaders and Losers

by: exRegionalWeenie (11/21/23)

We conducted midgame interiews with many of last week's scoring leaders. They told us that they were proud of their accomplishments thus far but would focus on playing a full season and try to do a better job at putting low numbers on possible upsets. We also did midgame interviews with some of last week's lowest scoring players. They promised to not quit in the face of adversity, try to win more games than they lose, and keep giving 100% effort. (NOTE: We're short-staffed at dirty-dawg, so we contracted out our interview program to Charissa Thompson. Thank you, Charissa!)

Week 12 CFCC Player Scores
We have played 12 weeks so far this season. Twelve! That means we're down to Week 13 plus the Bowl Blowout. Time's a wastin' so you better make your move right now. Several people made their move last week. Congrats to Monte Oaks on winning Week 12 by scoring 106 points on a 14-1 record. Jeffery Wood took second place last week with 104 points. Michael Barry and Nick Hampshire tied for third with identical scores (102 points, 13-2 record) while Judy Whaley took fifth place. Monte and Nick were two of last week's biggest gainers. Both improved their overall standing by 50 slots!

Home isn't where the heart is... or, at least it wasn't last week. Home teams went 3-12 in Week 12. That poor record is reflected in last week's standings where the bottom "players" Homer Bartson, Homer Picker and Homer Simpson each had the week's worst score of 3-12 with MINUS 50 points. So much for home cooking.

CFCC Standings after 12 Weeks
We have a new overall leader - it's Julie Jones who resides in the mountains on the east side of Albuquerque, NM. Julie has been in the Top 5 since Week 5 and this is her first stint at the top of the heap. Congrats, Julie, on your 15 minutes of fame, and good luck at achieving permanent fame if you can maintain your lead after the next two standings updates are posted. Mark Linhares moved up to second place and is just 2 points behind Julie. Mark has been in the Top 10 ever since Week 2. Sean Poulos and Geoffrey Heidelberger are in third and fourth place. They have the same number of points as Mark, but their won-loss records aren't as good. We have an EXTREMELY CLOSE RACE as these top 4 players are within 2 points of each other!

Jeff Graschel held on to fifth place and he's certainly within striking distance (just 10 points out of first). The rest of the Top 10 include Carol Overton, Steve Beaver, Judy Whaley (up 26 slots!!) , Tom Fannin and Mike Coyne.

CFCC's Latest Group Play Standings
From the Broken Record Department, the top 3 teams in Group Play are Boomerbacks, All in the Family and The Border War Still Lives in KC. Boomer has the #1 and #6 overall players, so it's pretty easy to see them owning Group Play. Meanwhile, the 4th place Florida Dummies have been surging in recent weeks but remain many points out of first place. Maybe the Moseley family is destined to abide by their team's bio which states, "...we are a solid bet to place 4th or 5th in the team standings." Yes you are, Dummies. Yes you are.

CFCC Week 11: And Then...The Babbling...Stopped.

by: Shudda, Cudda, Wudda

Enough said, Jimbo...
As an A&M grad, it never made sense to me--Texas A&M, with a spine of military tradition, integrity as a virtue, why in the hell you would hire a giggling babbler like Jimbo Fisher and then just throw in the towel on integrity this year by hiring Bobby Petrino as Offensive Coordinator. A $77 million mistake. God Bless both of you--please do something worthwhile with the money, but Silver Taps to your A&M coaching tenure--Highway 6 runs both ways...

Okay, (chuckle) so we didn't even have that game in Dirty Dawg CFCC this week--a game that at least tied a record, of both Head Coaches getting fired after a game! In Dirty Dawg play, we had better scores this week (average score of 90), which was halfway expected--we opted for more historical match-ups, even though several of the games had double-digit point spreads, but we needed a little boost to our condfidence with some higher CFCC scores. Enjoy!

There was little in the way of chaos in Week 11, with the undefeated CFP Top 5 still undefeated. For any inkling of a Separation Saturday, it was only the Top Tier putting more distance beyond the Second Tier. Most of the top teams looked plenty strong, and it looks like we are heading toward some great matchups for Championship Week this year.

CFCC Week 11 Scores
In CFCC play for the week, we had several 14-1 players, with Isaac Rhea, Elizabethton, TN leading all players at 116, then a trio at 114: Neal Rayburn, Hernando, MS; and two players from Lubbock, TX, Dale Ganus, and Justin Weaver, Dirty Dawg Founder and CEO. According to Johnny Vegas, there were three upsets: UCF throttling Oklahoma State, Missouri taking it to Tennessee, and Texas Tech beating CFP #16 Kansas on the road. Isaac correctly nailed the UCF and Texas Tech upsets and only wagered a 2 on his one miss.

CFCC Year-to-Date Standings
In the overall standings, Sean Poulos, Paducah, KY, continues in the lead for his third week, followed closely by Julie Jones, Sandia Park, NM, who continues in 2nd Place for the second consecutive week, and in 3rd Place, Carol Overton, Claremore, OK, who climbs up from 4th Place. Sean has been on an impressive run, in the CFCC Top 10 for the past 8 weeks, as well as leading the PFCC. Amazing, Sean--In The Zone, indeed.

CFCC Group Play Standings
For CFCC Group Play, Boomer Backs continue in 1st Place--and in 1st Place since Week 2, my goodness! Places 2 and 3 swapped this week, with The Border War Still Lives in KC sliding into #2, after biding their time at #3 for the past four weeks, and All in the Family slipping from #2 to #3 this week. And watchout those of you presently on the podium, The Florida Dummies have vaulted over the past few weeks, from #16 four weeks ago, to #9 last week, and somehow surging to #4 this week. Whoa!

Looking ahead to CFCC Week 12
For CFCC Week 12, we squat a bit before launching into Rivalry Week (in Week 13), but we do have couple of serious Prime Time road tests for CFP Tops 10s: Texas at Iowa State on Fox and Washington visiting an under-the-radar Top 10 Oregon State on ABC. Those should be intense! Elsewhere, maybe Tennessee was caught in a trap game last week at Missouri, and will give Georgia a test, hmmm, we'll see about that, and we also have UCLA at USC in the battle of LA. Gonna be fun! Good luck!

Sean Poulos Leads dirty-dawg.com

by: Sugar (November 1, 2023)

No need for two separate articles this week! Not that we have actually written 2 articles in one week this season anyhow. With that said, Sean Poulos of Paducah, Kentucky currently leads dirty-dawg.com. That's right, Sean leads both the CFCC and PFCC contests after Week 9 and Week 8, respectively. We think this has happened before, but it was a long time ago and only carried one week. Either way, this is an impressive feat for Mr. Poulos! In fact, the dirty-dawg.com Legal Department has launched an investigation into reports that Mr. Poulos may be associated with one Connor Stallions, but the signs are not clear. And after further review, it was discovered that dirty-dawg does not even have a Legal Department so nothing will likely come of that allegation. Anyhow, Sean has a narrow 2 point lead in the CFCC over Mark Linhares of Calera, Alabama and Liam McNeil from Germantown, Tennessee. Sean, who finished 3rd in the 2019 PFCC holds a commanding 30 point lead in the 2023 PFCC contest. Mike Lowder from Albemarle, North Carolina is in 2nd place, followed by Alan Rezek, playing from St. Albans, West Virginia.

Andrew Quigley from New Braunfels, Texas was our CFCC Week 9 Champion nailing down 90 points on 11 wins. Karen Hatfield from Owasso, Oklahoma was the Week 9 runner-up with 72 points on 12 wins. Paul Todis also had 72 points on 11 wins which landed him in 3rd place. Over in Week 8 PFCC, it was 2017 PFCC runner-up Linda Kunches from Niwot, Colorado and Pembroke Pines, Florida player Amanda Fanning taking home the honors. Both Linda and Amanda scored 82 points on 12-3 records. Interestingly, Paul Todis also finished 3rd in Week 8 PFCC to go along with his CFCC Week 9 showing. Taking a look at Group Play shows Boomerbacks with a huge 20.5 point lead over All in the Family in the CFCC. The Border War Still Live in KC is in 3rd place with High Plains Drifters in 4th. Hailraisers leads PFCC groups with Padookie Quack Attack and the PFCC version of Boomerbacks in 3rd place. The Passing Wind is 4th after 8 weeks of PFCC games.

We are starting to get an idea of which teams may land in the College Football Playoff with the CFP gods releasing their first Top 4 for the 2023 season. Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan and Florida State are the teams to beat as we head down the stretch. Of course, Michigan and Ohio State will have their huge match-up at the end of the season. And of course, this will be the last season for the Bowl Blowout and CFP as we have known it for so long as the CFP will expand to 12 teams in 2024.

In the meantime, both CFCC and PFCC game forms are up for the incoming weekend. The good news is there is no early London game this Sunday. The bad news is there is an early Frankfurt game Sunday, so make sure to get those PFCC selections in by 830 AM CST! That's right, we are giving you an extra hour to get your PFCC picks in this Sunday, due to the rollback to standard time. Good luck the rest of the way!