All of the dirty-dawg picks are in for the 2025 football season. All that's left now is to kick back and watch those points roll in with no threat of negative ticks in the CFP or Super Bowl Blowouts! Next up are the Divisional Rounds for the NFL this weekend, followed by the CFP Final on Monday evening, featuring juggernaut Indiana and resurgent Miami. Hoosiers versus Convicts won't sell any shirts, but we are looking forward to an entertaining final.

After the six NFL Wildcard games, Teddy Overton from Claremore, OK continues to lead the PFCC field with 1072 points. Hot on Teddy's heals are 5 bone earners in the form of John Zittel (2016 Silver), Mark Plate (2024 Bronze), Jane Banks (2019 Champion) and another of the Overton Clan named Jeffrey (2023 Silver). The only player in the Top 6 without a bone (besides Teddy) is dirty-dawg powerhouse Matthew Brady who is in 5th place 20 points off the mark. 

For the Super Bowl Blowout itself, David Lemmons from Jefferson City, MO is the early leader with 65 points out of the gate. His 10 (Jacksonville) and 9 (Philadelphia) didn't work out, but he nailed the other winners to take the early advantage. Dirty-dawg director Dick Wagenmaker is in 2nd place with 63 points, tied with veteran dawger Keith Ventimiglia. Steve Friend and Benjamin Lott are tied for 4th heading into the Divisional Round.

And has been having for most of the season, BoomerBacks is completely embarrassing the PFCC Group hopefuls with a ridiculous 61.72 average score lead over the closet competitors No Mistakes by this Great Lake. Tulsa Twisters are 70.79 back and Hurricane Elvis is 81.92 off the pace.

That's a quick wrap of the latest and greatest performances from the blowouts! We will be back early next week to wrap up the CFCC and crown the 2025 Champion as well as catch-up with the PFCC after the Divisional Round games!

After 20 weeks of college and pro football selections, all picks are now in with the launch of the PFCC Super Blow Blowout this weekend! If you play both contests and successfully submitted picks for all 20 weeks (15 CFCC Weeks and 19 PFCC Weeks, 20 total weeks) congratulations on being both organized and committed enough to pull off such a feat! 

We are going to take a quick look back af PFCC Week 18 so we can pass along our usual hearty congratulations to Carl Lindecrantz from Waterloo, IA for winning Week 18 with 86 points and 12 wins. Dan Spaeth from Paducah, KY was the Week 18 runner-up. The overall leaderboard offers no excitement, however, with Teddy Overton back on top for the 2nd week in a row with a 15 point lead over John Zittel, who happens to be the 2017 PFCC Silver Bone recipient. The average score for Week 18 was 48.6 with the low clocking in at -46. Yikes! And just when you think BoomerBacks lead can't get any bigger in group play, you're wrong as they have extended their lead to 61.22 points over No Mistakes Near This Great Lake. We'll see if there are any surprises in the NFL playoffs to shake up the leaderboard as we close out the season.

The CFP semi-finals went down Thursday and Friday and opened with an incredibly entertaining game between Miami and Ole Miss, culminated by a last minute TD run by Carson Beck. I lost count of how many lead changes occured during the game but it was a fantastic tilt under command of Beck and Trinidad Chambliss from Ole Miss. That game is what the CFP is all about, and it was fun to watch Ole Miss make a deep run after their coach skated on them. In the other match-up, the Indiana juggernaut continued to steam down the tracks completely demolishing Oregon along the way. I know there are a lot of people out there that don't think Fernando Mendoza should have won the Heisman, but I'm sure not one of them. It's going to take a perfect effort from Miami to knock off the undefeated Hoosiers next Monday night!

Now, with 318 entries for the CFP Blowout, you may wonder how many dirty-dawgers successfully put their 11 and 12 on Miami and Indiana. The answer is one. One dirty-dawger, by the name of Todd Barron, from Madison, AL has 12 on Indiana and 11 on Miami. Not surprisingly, Todd is now leading the CFP Blowout with 175 point and no player within 10 points of Todd has a 12 on Miami, so Todd will win the CFP Blowout. We will congratulate you later, Todd!

We will also be congratulating Jeff Zoltowski of Garylord, MI who took sole possession of 1st place overall after the CFP semi-final round. Jeff only has an 8 point lead over Gary Petti who has led the CFCC much of the season, but Jeff has a 12 on Indiana and 6 on Miami. Only one player within striking distance of Jeff has a higher confidence on Miami and that would be Jonathan Frazier from Justin, TX and Jonathan trails Jeff by 39 points. In other words, Jeff Zoltowski will be the CFCC 2025 Champion! 

About the only drama we can find is in CFCC Group Play where Stratus-Faction Guaranteed has vaulted into 1st place after the semis. The average score of that 7-dawger team is an impressive 1012.57, lead by the aforementioned Jonathan  Frazier. Stratus-Faction has a small 4.17 point lead over The Border War Still Live in KC so it will be interesting to see which group takes home the crown following the CFP Final on January 19. 

Okay, that's a wrap for now. We don't have any more deadlines to warn you about so we will be back following the NFL Wild Card Round later this week. Until then, enjoy the NFL playoffs and the CFP Final and as always, thanks for playing dirty-dawg.com!

Happy New Year from dirty-dawg.com! New Year's Eve/Day provided college football junkies with the four much anticipated semi-final games. Unfortunately, only two of them provided much entertainment, if not a few surprises. Similar to the 2024 CFP, 3 of the 4 teams that had byes lost, One of those teams, Texas Tech, flamed out in spectacular fashion. New Year's Eve kicked off with Miami, who many didn't think even deserved to be in the playoff, taking down defending champion Ohio State along with their all player consensus of 10.8. New Year's Day featured Oregon and Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl with two of the best defenses in the country. And both of those defenses showed up. Too bad Texas Tech's offense didn't, which obviouisly was mostly due to Oregon's excellent scheme and play. The Rose Bowl featured a complete blow-out of Alabama at the hands of Indiana. I never thought I would write that sentence two years ago! And in the night-cap, Lane Kiffin-less Ole Miss took down Georgia, which was another 10+ point consensus pick, in a very entertaining game. 

Despite the surprises, the top two players in the overall CFCC standings remain in place. Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, FL holds serve with 1030 points, just seven points ahead of Gaylord, Michigan's Jeff Zoltowski. Howie Moseley is in third place 20 points back, Mike Coyne is in fourth, 25 points off the leading pace, and Dean Moseley is in fifth at 27 back. It appears that it's going to be Mr. Zoltowski at the top when all is said and done as he looks to have the net highest points on the four semi-final teams!! Remember, confidenc factors are multiplied by 5 for the semi-final games and by 10 for the final.

We have a close battle in group competition, as we have had all year. The Border War Still Lives in KC is currently in the lead with 937.40 points, but Stratus-Faction Guaranteed is just 7.69 points back. Water Warriors, BoomerBacks and The Florida Dummies-Legacy are likely all in contention depending on how the rest of the CFP plays out.

Over in the PFCC, we have 17 weeks in the books with Teddy Overton back in the lead after a one week hiatus. Ben Nelson dropped to 2nd place while John Zittel of Golden, Colorado was up  6 spots into the third place. Dirty-dawg veteran John Martynuk won PFCC Week 17 with 62 points on a 10-5 record. Scott Kahn was the runner-up with 56 points. The average score for Week 17 was 24. And I probably don't need to remind you that BoomerBacks has totally run away with the group contest.

Okay, we already sent a reminder that the final regular season week of PFCC (Week 18) has a Saturday deadline, which is 330 PM CST. If you play PFCC and have made it this far, it sure would be a drag if you missed your picks on the last week of the regular season! So don't. Good luck with PFCC Week 18 and with the rest of the CFP!