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BAS On Hold/Boomerbacks Destroying PFCC Groups

by: Sugar (October 28, 2025)


Nine weeks into the CFCC books and it's clear that one of the most consistently good teams so far this college football season has been the Texas A&M Aggies. The Aggies, after knocking off Notre Dame by a point in Week 3 have been on a roll. Other than a close call against Arkansas, Texas A&M has been on an SEC war path and just dismantled LSU AT LSU AT night! When couldn't believe all of the LSU Tigers heading for the exits in the 3rd Quarter. The beat-down was so unbearable to LSU that they canned Brian Kelly first thing Sunday morning. When is the last time the A&M football team was responsible for anything close to that? Now, probably all of my Aggie friends wish I wouldn't write these things out loud. All of them suffer from an affliction known as Battered Aggie Syndrome or BAS. Well, I'm here to tell you Aggie friends, with 4 games to go, toughest of which will be against Missouri and Texas, along with South Carolina and easy-win Samford, it's going to be really, really, really hard for Texas A&M to miss the CFP this year! There, I typed it! If I'm wrong, I will never write anything positive about Aggieland again.

The other consistent butt kicking that has been going on has been at the hands of group Boomerbacks in the PFCC. Boomerbacks are always a powerhouse and, although we don't keep group records, they have won the PFCC Group Play a time or two (or likely more). This season, they are putting on an absolute clinic and making a mockery of the whole contest. Boomerbacks currently holds a 51.18 point lead over No Mistakes near this Great Lake. That's an average score, mind you. So, we here at dirty-dawg aren't sure what kind of collapse the Boomers would have to experience to lose this thing, but I guess you never know. Each week they increase their lead. After PFCC Week 8, all 8 players are in the Top 45 with 4 of them in the Top 6. Crazy good!

Okay, so let's take a look at the nitty-gritty in the CFCC for Week 9. The average score was 60.4 and a player that goes by the name "T Dub" from Hampton, Tennessee drove the weekly bus with a stellar 14-1 record getting tripped up only on Arizona State during the last game on the ticket. Rusty Painter from Jeckinsburg, GA was 2nd with 110 points on 13 wins (picked Northwestern and Illinois) and Chris McKinney from Bedford, TX was third with 102 points on 14 wins, dropping his 9 confidence on the Sun Devils. Linda English of Louisville, KY is our new leader with 620 points and an overall record of 97-38. Fun fact: Linda was in 204th place after Week 1 but has been in the Top 3 since Week 6. Linda holds an 8 point lead over Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, FL and 12 points over Jeremy Buckles from Strawberry Plains, TN. Weeki Wachee and Strawberry Plains. Sounds like an awesome rock group name! For CFCC Group Play, another perennial powerhouse, The Florida Dummies - Legacy holds a 1.2 point lead over The Border War Still Live in KC and almost 10 points over Stratus-Fraction Guaranteed.

Over on the senior circuit, Nick Hampshire continues to pace the field with 548 points on an 84-28 record. He is currently holding off two of the Overton clan, Teddy and Jeffrey from Boomerbacks, with a 5 and 8 point lead respectively. Deb Bulloch is 4th and the 2017 runner-up Linda Kunches occupies 5th. And the winner of Week 8 PFCC is a dawger who has been with us since we were playing this contest on paper in 1990, Don Baker, from Platte City, MO! Don's player ID in the dirty-dawg database is 21, if that tells you anything? Don went 10-2 for Week 8, good for 86 points.Don's miscues were The Falcons and The Bengals. Steve Listemaa, a currently unpaid NWS employee (like many others in this contest) from Newnan, GA was the Week 8 runner-up while another zero paycheck guy, John Schmidt, was 3rd for the week also with 82 points but 9 wins compared to Steve's 10. Mr. Schmidt got a shout-out last week for his CFCC performance. This must be his 10 minutes of fame, or something like that. He would probably rather get paid than a worthless mention in this column!

Okay, October football is now in the books as we move on to November and the fall-back to standard time. Thus, the Week 10 CFCC games are due at 11 AM Central DAYLIGHT Time on Saturday, while the PFCC Week 9 game form is due at 12 Noon Central STANDARD Time on Sunday. So, you get an extra hour this week to submit your PFCC brilliance, so don't screw the pooch! Good luck this week and thanks for playing dirty-dawg.com! stories/25_CFCC_Week_9.html

BAS On Hold/Boomerbacks Destroying PFCC Groups

by: Sugar (October 28, 2025)


Nine weeks into the CFCC books and it's clear that one of the most consistently good teams so far this college football season has been the Texas A&M Aggies. The Aggies, after knocking off Notre Dame by a point in Week 3 have been on a roll. Other than a close call against Arkansas, Texas A&M has been on an SEC war path and just dismantled LSU AT LSU AT night! When couldn't believe all of the LSU Tigers heading for the exits in the 3rd Quarter. The beat-down was so unbearable to LSU that they canned Brian Kelly first thing Sunday morning. When is the last time the A&M football team was responsible for anything close to that? Now, probably all of my Aggie friends wish I wouldn't write these things out loud. All of them suffer from an affliction known as Battered Aggie Syndrome or BAS. Well, I'm here to tell you Aggie friends, with 4 games to go, toughest of which will be against Missouri and Texas, along with South Carolina and easy-win Samford, it's going to be really, really, really hard for Texas A&M to miss the CFP this year! There, I typed it! If I'm wrong, I will never write anything positive about Aggieland again.

The other consistent butt kicking that has been going on has been at the hands of group Boomerbacks in the PFCC. Boomerbacks are always a powerhouse and, although we don't keep group records, they have won the PFCC Group Play a time or two (or likely more). This season, they are putting on an absolute clinic and making a mockery of the whole contest. Boomerbacks currently holds a 51.18 point lead over No Mistakes near this Great Lake. That's an average score, mind you. So, we here at dirty-dawg aren't sure what kind of collapse the Boomers would have to experience to lose this thing, but I guess you never know. Each week they increase their lead. After PFCC Week 8, all 8 players are in the Top 45 with 4 of them in the Top 6. Crazy good!

Okay, so let's take a look at the nitty-gritty in the CFCC for Week 9. The average score was 60.4 and a player that goes by the name "T Dub" from Hampton, Tennessee drove the weekly bus with a stellar 14-1 record getting tripped up only on Arizona State during the last game on the ticket. Rusty Painter from Jeckinsburg, GA was 2nd with 110 points on 13 wins (picked Northwestern and Illinois) and Chris McKinney from Bedford, TX was third with 102 points on 14 wins, dropping his 9 confidence on the Sun Devils. Linda English of Louisville, KY is our new leader with 620 points and an overall record of 97-38. Fun fact: Linda was in 204th place after Week 1 but has been in the Top 3 since Week 6. Linda holds an 8 point lead over Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, FL and 12 points over Jeremy Buckles from Strawberry Plains, TN. Weeki Wachee and Strawberry Plains. Sounds like an awesome rock group name! For CFCC Group Play, another perennial powerhouse, The Florida Dummies - Legacy holds a 1.2 point lead over The Border War Still Live in KC and almost 10 points over Stratus-Fraction Guaranteed.

Over on the senior circuit, Nick Hampshire continues to pace the field with 548 points on an 84-28 record. He is currently holding off two of the Overton clan, Teddy and Jeffrey from Boomerbacks, with a 5 and 8 point lead respectively. Deb Bulloch is 4th and the 2017 runner-up Linda Kunches occupies 5th. And the winner of Week 8 PFCC is a dawger who has been with us since we were playing this contest on paper in 1990, Don Baker, from Platte City, MO! Don's player ID in the dirty-dawg database is 21, if that tells you anything? Don went 10-2 for Week 8, good for 86 points.Don's miscues were The Falcons and The Bengals. Steve Listemaa, a currently unpaid NWS employee (like many others in this contest) from Newnan, GA was the Week 8 runner-up while another zero paycheck guy, John Schmidt, was 3rd for the week also with 82 points but 9 wins compared to Steve's 10. Mr. Schmidt got a shout-out last week for his CFCC performance. This must be his 10 minutes of fame, or something like that. He would probably rather get paid than a worthless mention in this column!

Okay, October football is now in the books as we move on to November and the fall-back to standard time. Thus, the Week 10 CFCC games are due at 11 AM Central DAYLIGHT Time on Saturday, while the PFCC Week 9 game form is due at 12 Noon Central STANDARD Time on Sunday. So, you get an extra hour this week to submit your PFCC brilliance, so don't screw the pooch! Good luck this week and thanks for playing dirty-dawg.com!

dirty-dawg Weekly Wednesday Wrap

by: Sugar (October 22, 2025)


Don't look now but there is only one more October weekend of football for 2025 and that's coming at you in just a few days. That really means just one more full month of college football and the playoff picture is starting to become a little clearer, although there are a lot of questions still to be answered. The big news in the CFCC for Week 8 is that we have a new leader as 2022 Champion Tom Fannin, has taken over the overall lead after steadily climbing the standings the last few weeks. Tom has 556 points and has a 20 point lead over Jeremy Buckles, who had led the 2025 CFCC since Week 2. Linda Enlgish, from Louisville, KY is also 20 points back but with 2 fewer wins than Jeremy with 86. One of my fellow dirty-dawg Overlords, Mike Coyne, was up 5 spots into the number 4 slot and Heidi Holland dropped ons spot to 5th place. For Week 8, the average player score was 54.8 with scores ranging from an incredible 100 down to a desperate -42. Eric Forinash from Corpus Christi, Texas went 14-1 and had one of the two 100 scores for the week. Eric was only let down by my Texas Tech Red Raiders. Sorry about that, Eric, but way to nail the rest of the games! Amy King from Morgantown, WV also scored 100, but missed 3 games: South Carolina, Clemson and Penn State. She did not miss on Texas Tech, so she must follow their program. Let's also give a shout-out to dirty-dawg veteran, John Schmidt from Peachtree City, Georgia for going 13-2 and nailing 96 points. Not bad for a hydrologist!! We also had another swap in Group Play standings with The Florida Dummies- Legacy resuming the lead over The Border War Still Lives in KC. Stratus-Faction Guaranteed is in 3rd place about 15 points behind the leaders.

On the pro circuit, it was another frustrating weekend for dirty-dawg admin with the 830 AM kick-off across the pond and two freaking Monday night games, the last of which kicked off at 10 PM EDT! So, yours truly rolled out of bed (because I have a real job) around 2 AM CDT to score the PFCC and promptly screwed the pooch by clicking on Minnesota instead of Denver. And if I ever wondered if dirty-dawgers actually check the standings in the wee hours of the morning I now know that yes, at least 22 players do, because that's how many emails I had when I finally crawled out of bed Tuesday morning letting me know about my oversight. So, once Denver was secured as the winner, after a crazy comeback, eleven dirty-dawgers had perfect Week 7 PFCC selections!! So, kudos to Krissy Hurley, Ronald Kennedy, Matt Kennedy, Mike Lowder, Robert Stonefield, Mack Morris, David Kopfmann, Jeff Craven, David Davis, Mary Wichern and John Cecava For a perfect prognostication week. In the PFCC, that ain't easy! The average score for PFCC Week 7 was 74.5. There was no movement on the overall leaderboard with Nick Hampshire and Jeffrey Overton occupying the top two spots once again. Matthew Brady, Teddy Overton and Deb Bulloch round out the Top 5. And Boomerbacks continued to expand their Group Play lead over the rest of the PFCC group field with a whopping 34.7 point lead over No Mistakes by this Great Lake! Now all members of the Boomerbacks group are in the Top 54 players. Very impressive, folks!

Okay, the clock is ticking toward another exciting weekend of football, kicking off Saturday morning with 15 tough CFCC tilts featuring several key match-ups and probably a couple big upsets. And order has finally been restored to the NFL schedule with no early deadlines and only one Monday night game. Thank you, NFL. Deadlines are 11 AM CDT Saturday for the CFCC and Noon CDT Sunday for the PFCC. Get those picks in and enjoy Week 9/8 of the CFCC/PFCC!

Indiana Ruling 2025 Football. Google It!

by: Sugar (October 15, 2025)


We are at the halfway point of the college football season and about one-third complete with the big boys and it's pretty clear that the state of Indiana is dominating the sport in 2025. If you haven't been paying attention, that may surprise you some. But here's the deal. The Indiana Hoosiers are undefeated and just took down Oregon AT Eugene. Let that sink in for a minute. The losingest program in college football is a power to be reckoned with and is sitting at #3 overall in the national polls. They would be higher if the name on their jersey didn't say Indiana. And their Coach, Curt Cignetti, was panned at the beginning of last season when he told reporters, "I win. Google me." No need to Google now. And over in big-boy land, the Indianapolis Colts are tied for the best record in the NFL with Tampa Bay at 5-1. We checked and Peyton Manning is still hocking anything somebody will pay him for and not QBing the Colts after all. So, congratulations to Indianians (or whatever they go by) for not looking forward to basketball season already, like is typical for mid October.

For CFCC Week 7, there were several 13-2 records on an average score of 60.2 but it was Kevin Oram from Sherwood, AR that bested the field with 110 points, missing only on the Iowa State and Florida losses. Great job, Kevin! Phil Stiegman from Sierra Vista, AZ was a close 2nd with 108 points, while Megan McCoy from Arlington, TX was 3rd. Overall, Jeremy Buckles from Strawberry Plains, TN leads the overall contest for the 6th week in a row. Jeremy was in 2nd place after Week 1 and has led the contest since! Linda English remains in 2nd place with 2022 Champion Tom Fannin up another spot to #3 overall. Heidi Holland from Clayton, NC was up a whopping 47 spots and into #4. Scott Franke is in 5th place. And a special shout-out to dirty-dawg Charter Member Mike Coyne, who was up 9 spots to #9. In Group Play, The Border War Still Lives in KC remains in 1st place with an average socre of 420.40, which is 5.2 points better than The Florida Dummies - Legacy and almost 15 better than Stratus-Faction Guaranteed.

We also have put PFCC Week 6 in the books, complete with yet another London crack-of-dawn game and even worse, two Monday night tilts. Our prediction: soon the NFL will play a game every day. Anyhow, all that really matters is than during a week when the average score was 46, Josh Boustead pulled off a 109 with a 12-2 record. He missed his 3 game with Miami and his 2 on Washington. Excellent work! Penny Zabel from Portland, Texas was the Week 6 runner-up with 91 points. Overall, Nick Hampshire has taken over the lead with 373 points, but it is a close race with Jeffrey Overton just 2 points back, last week's leader Deb Bulloch 4 points back and former leader Matthew Brady just 6 points off the lead. Teddy Overton is 8 back in 5th place. While the overall contest is close, the group contest is not as Boomerbacks continue to hold a sizeable 27 point lead over No Mistakes near this Great Lake. Boomerbacks has 4 of the Top 10 overall players in their group and all 8 members are in the Top 60!

And now a couple of announcements as we get ready to head into another weekend of football. The first thing is, and let me know if you have heard this before, there is an early PFCC deadline once again for Week 7 due to another freaking game in London. How much American football can The Brits really endure? The second thing is that we will be pulling the plug on group play changes following the Monday night game(s) for Week 7 PFCC. So, add good players, or email us to dump your dead weight. In The meantime, get those picks in and good luck with this weekend's games!

CFCC Top dawgs

Through Week 9

Place Player Pts W L
1 Linda English 620 97 38
2 Gary Petti 612 97 38
3 Jeremy Buckles 608 98 37
4 Tom Fannin 606 95 40
5 Andy Lesage 596 97 38
6 Jeff Zoltowski 594 92 43
7 J.R. Dunn 592 99 36
8 Mike Coyne 588 98 37
9 Simon Binau 588 94 41
10 Brett Williams 588 94 41
Full CFCC Standings

PFCC Top dawgs

Through Week 8

Place Player Pts W L
1 Nick Hampshire 548 84 28
2 Teddy Overton 543 84 28
3 Jeffrey Overton 540 84 28
4 Deb Bulloch 536 81 31
5 Linda Kunches 532 84 28
6 Carol Overton 524 81 31
7 Matthew Brady 512 82 30
8 Jason Runyen 508 83 29
9 Keith Goolsbey 508 81 31
10 Tammy Meffert 508 79 33
Full PFCC Standings

CBCC Top dawgs

2025 Contest

Place Player Points
1 Bill Gargan 8389
2 Daniel Noirot 8385
3 Teddy Overton 8363
4 Paul Todis 8357
5 Carol Overton 8353
6 Dan Spaeth 8349
7 Linda Kunches 8348
8 Howie Moseley 8339
9 Don Adams 8333
10 Brent Ryder 8328
Full CBCC Standings

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