The 2016 Week 12 CFCC Wrap-up:
Targeting Week Comes and Goes

by Wudda, Cudda, Shudda

The week before Rivalry Week can now be labeled as “Targeting Week” (or maybe Cream Puff Week). Many of the games in our Week 12 slate last week served as buffer games before the highly anticipated Rivalry games, protecting “star” players from possibly serving targeting suspensions from Week 11 infractions, thereby missing a the first half against a cream puff opponent rather than against the rival. Also, Week 12 cream puff opponents allows weary “stars” to rest on the sidelines and heal-up for the Week 13 Rivalry games. However thanks to Hurricane Andrew we did have two creampuff games cancelled to allow Florida and LSU to make up their Hurricaned-out game from October 8. And this game ended up being a huge surprise for Dirty Dawg players as only 3 percent of us picked the victorious Gators, with LSU being a consensus 12 pick. This game went right down to the wire (and goal line) as Florida stopped LSU’s 4th Down goal line dive.

In the rest of the games there were four other upsets including Oklahoma State thumping TCU 31-6; Virginia Tech with a mild upset of Notre Dame in South Bend; Minnesota with a strong effort upsetting Northwestern 29-12; and Arkansas upsetting Mississippi State with a Big 12 types score 58-42. So not all the games were cream puff games.

In Dirty Dawg play, Sam Lucci’s stranglehold on the rest of us has finally ended, as Sam dropped to #2, behind our new leader, Aiden Binau (Billings, MT). Lucci filed a 36, right at the DD average of 35.3, while Binau scored a stellar 72. Rounding out the Top 5 was Brandon Dunstan, still at #3, Andrew Kennedy up two places to #4, and Rudy Casias, up 14 places to #5.

For the week, Danielle Clapper (Louisville, CO) scored a blistering 98 to lead the pack. Danielle went 13-2, and nailed 4 of the 5 upsets, including being one of the 3% who picked Florida over LSU.

In Group Play the BuckNutz lead the Florida Dummies by a narrow four points, and Rivalry Week could show a big swing for these teams depending on the results of the Ohio State-Michigan game and the Florida-FSU game.

Seeing all the games. Ok, so maybe some of you are so busy that you’re lucky to catch one game each week, but then there are others whose time allows them to see Game Day at 9am ET/6am PT through the 10:30 ET/7:30 PT Final game on our sheet. And sometimes there are those of you who go out on a limb for an upset and wish you could watch it. Well, there is more to Dirty Dawg life than your TV remote. There are several Apps that allow you to watch many Group of Five matchups, as well as 2nd and 3rd tier Power Five matchups from our games each week. Many of these games will be available on the Watch ESPN App; some will be broadcast on the Fox Sports Go App, CBS Sports App, Big Ten Network (BTN) Network App, Pac-12 Now App. If you have an Apple TV, the Watch ESPN App is included and you can watch on your big screen TV. There may be some limitation, with your internet/cable provider--unfortunately I cannot watch the Pac-12 App. because our cable provider does not carry this network, not yet anyway! “What’s their problem!

So you have a few days to download these Apps, then you can have 3-4 games running at once! Rivalry week is here! NOTE THE EARLY DEADLINE! We have LSU at Texas A&M Thanksgiving night; The Apple Cup (Washington at Washington State) Friday afternoon, and Nebraska at Iowa (trying to fill the Nebraska v Oklahoma void for us old timers) on Friday. Then on Saturday, Michigan-Ohio State, Iron Bowl (Auburn-Alabama), Florida-Florida State and many others. Wow, where did the season go!?!