Remembering the 21st Night of September. And the 22nd and 23rd.
by: Sugar (September 26, 2024)
With apologies to Earth, Wind and Fire, one of THE best bands of the 1970s, it is time to look back at the 21st night (and day) of September, hereafter referred to
as CFCC Week 4. We are learning more about the 2024 college football landscape with each passing week. For instance, Michigan looks better than originally thought, or
USC was too highly thought of, but if the former is true, Texas is probably really, really good as suggested in this column a couple of weeks ago. James Madison hung
70 on North Carolina in a game where both teams totals almost went over the Vegas Over/Under. Miami of Florida continues to chug along and Tennessee looks like a force
to be reckoned with in the SEC.
Mack Morris of New Braunfels, TX also looks like a force to be reckoned with as he was up one spot from Week 3 to take over the lead and has opened up a 22 point lead over
previous leader, Matt Rendall. Mack had a 54 point performance during a week that only had a brutal 29 point average. Courtney Carpenter from Roseville, CA remains in 3rd
place with a 48 point week and is 42 points back of Big Mack. For Week 4 itself, Phil Stiegman of Sierra Vista, AZ was the winner with a crazy 88 point performance on an
11-4 record. Phil missed the first 4 games of the week (NC State, UNC, Coastal Carolina and USC). Then he ran the table. Aaron Davis from Shreveport was the Week 4 runner-up
with 82 points, also with 11 victories. Checking on the other side of the coin, David Carroll from Saint Albans, WV had about as much go wrong as possible clocking in with
-66 points and a 5-10 record. Hang in there, David, better weeks are ahead! Snoop's Clean Canines, presented by WFO EWX continues to pace group play with an average score
of 221.17 points, which is a tad over 3 points ahead of Water Wizards and The Andy Griffith Show. We will know even more about college football after the highly anticipated
Georgia at Alabama tilt this Saturday
Switching over to the 22nd and 23rd days and nights of September, or PFCC Week 3, we see it was another brutal week for the dirty-dawg field with an average score of -25.
Yes, that's a minus sign in front of the two and five. Only 18 players did better than zero, with Bryan Greenblatt the genius with 44 points on an 8-7 record. Danielle Sanchez
from Colorado Springs had a good record at 11-4 and finished as Week 3 runner-up with 40 points. Overall, dirty-dawg veteran Paul Witsaman continues to lead with 113 points.
Danielle Knittle from Endicott, NY is in 2nd place with 111 points while Trevor(lution) Boucher from Salt Lake City (fix your resident city T-Rev!) resides in 3rd place With
109 points. Picks So Hard, We Broke Our WRISD continues to lead the group efforts with 47.4 points, ahead of 2nd Place CRaP We Forgot and Hurricane Elvis.
As we head into another football-filled weekend, both game forms are up and ready for your expert action. Let's shoot for positive average scores in both contests this week.
Good luck!
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Remembering the 21st Night of September. And the 22nd and 23rd.
by: Sugar (September 26, 2024)
With apologies to Earth, Wind and Fire, one of THE best bands of the 1970s, it is time to look back at the 21st night (and day) of September, hereafter referred to
as CFCC Week 4. We are learning more about the 2024 college football landscape with each passing week. For instance, Michigan looks better than originally thought, or
USC was too highly thought of, but if the former is true, Texas is probably really, really good as suggested in this column a couple of weeks ago. James Madison hung
70 on North Carolina in a game where both teams totals almost went over the Vegas Over/Under. Miami of Florida continues to chug along and Tennessee looks like a force
to be reckoned with in the SEC.
Mack Morris of New Braunfels, TX also looks like a force to be reckoned with as he was up one spot from Week 3 to take over the lead and has opened up a 22 point lead over
previous leader, Matt Rendall. Mack had a 54 point performance during a week that only had a brutal 29 point average. Courtney Carpenter from Roseville, CA remains in 3rd
place with a 48 point week and is 42 points back of Big Mack. For Week 4 itself, Phil Stiegman of Sierra Vista, AZ was the winner with a crazy 88 point performance on an
11-4 record. Phil missed the first 4 games of the week (NC State, UNC, Coastal Carolina and USC). Then he ran the table. Aaron Davis from Shreveport was the Week 4 runner-up
with 82 points, also with 11 victories. Checking on the other side of the coin, David Carroll from Saint Albans, WV had about as much go wrong as possible clocking in with
-66 points and a 5-10 record. Hang in there, David, better weeks are ahead! Snoop's Clean Canines, presented by WFO EWX continues to pace group play with an average score
of 221.17 points, which is a tad over 3 points ahead of Water Wizards and The Andy Griffith Show. We will know even more about college football after the highly anticipated
Georgia at Alabama tilt this Saturday
Switching over to the 22nd and 23rd days and nights of September, or PFCC Week 3, we see it was another brutal week for the dirty-dawg field with an average score of -25.
Yes, that's a minus sign in front of the two and five. Only 18 players did better than zero, with Bryan Greenblatt the genius with 44 points on an 8-7 record. Danielle Sanchez
from Colorado Springs had a good record at 11-4 and finished as Week 3 runner-up with 40 points. Overall, dirty-dawg veteran Paul Witsaman continues to lead with 113 points.
Danielle Knittle from Endicott, NY is in 2nd place with 111 points while Trevor(lution) Boucher from Salt Lake City (fix your resident city T-Rev!) resides in 3rd place With
109 points. Picks So Hard, We Broke Our WRISD continues to lead the group efforts with 47.4 points, ahead of 2nd Place CRaP We Forgot and Hurricane Elvis.
As we head into another football-filled weekend, both game forms are up and ready for your expert action. Let's shoot for positive average scores in both contests this week.
Good luck!
Week3 CFCC and Week2 PFCC in the Books
By Boda September 19, 2024
Well... a very deserved break from the difficulties of predicting college football was Week 3 in the CFCC. The average jumped to a more respectful 70 points with a smattering of 14-1 records,
and numerous 13-2 and 12-3 records. First prize this week was shared by Jared Lee of Broomfield CO and Scott Kahn from the twin Long Island hamlets of East Northport and North Eastport (yes, I
made you look). Each scored 108 points on 13-2 records. The overall standings following the first 3 weeks of CFCC also have shared leadership. Matt Rendall of Mishawaka IN and Mack Morris of New Braunfels
TX each have 272 points, averaging just over 90 points per week. Matt and Mack are followed closely by Courtney Carpenter and Chris Darden. And last, Snoop's Clean Canines continue to hold their
lead in Group play, just ahead of BoomerBacks and HailRaisers.
Not to forget PFCC which is through its second week of games. Our overall leader is Paul Witsamen of Forth Worth TX, followed by Trevor Boucher and Danielle Knittle. The Week 2 winner was Scott
Carpenter of Salt Lake City UT with a stellar 9-6 record and 42 points. What's the difference between CFCC and PFCC you ask ? Parity !! While the Week 3 CFCC scoring average was 70, the Week 2 PFCC
scoring average was -19. In fact, in the pro contest this week you could score zero and still climb 78 points in the standings (Martha Hilgeman). Ouch !!
So thats it for the latest Dirt-Dawg summary. For Week 4 CFCC, you won't have Florida State to kick you around anymore. We are starting to have a few conference games going foward which usually makes
for more challenging picking. This week Utah at Oklahoma State and Tennessee at Oklahoma look to be the big games. In the PFCC, the usual tight slate is in place with about 5 home underdogs tempting
your allegiance, along with about half the games with point spreads 3 or less. Good luck to all.
Longhorns Dominate Defending Champs in Ann Arbor
by: Sugar (September 11, 2024)
Two dirty-dawg CFCC weeks are in the books and the upset train continued in Week 2 with several point spread upsets cratering the Week 2 average score to an embarrasing 49 points.
One upset that wasn't was the Texas Longhorns invading The Big House and dominating the defending champion Michigan Wolverines. We don't know how good Michigan is this year, but it is
possible that Texas may be very good and could easily make another National Championship run. Later in the day, Syracuse beat Pitt, Iowa State hit a monster final gun field goal to
take down Iowa, Cal made a long trip to spank Auburn and South Carolina cruised past Kentucky. There were several other pucker factor games as well as South Florida was within a
field goal of Nick Sabanless Alabama late and Oklahoma could only muster a safety after halftime to squeak past Houston. Oregon and Arizona State had close games in the nightcaps.
Despite most players struggles, Matt Rendall of Mishawaka, Indiana cruised through the week with 92 points on a 13-2 mark. Like a lot of players, he lost big on Auburn (13) but only
had 1 on Kansas. Nice job Matt. And he also leads the contest overall. Josh Boustead was Week 2 runner-up with 86 points on 13 wins (Auburn and Kentucky losses) and Seth Warthen from
Salt Lake City, UT finished 3rd with 82 points. On the overall scoreboard, we find last weeks winner, Mack Morris, in 2nd place just 4 points behind Matt Rendall. Third place is held
by Courtney Carpenter from Roseville, CA, 26 points off the leading pace.
On the Group Play front, Snoop's Clean Canines, presented by WFO EWX has the lead with an average player score of 108.0. Perennial group powerhouse, Boomerbacks, are just 7 points behind
with Stop, Hamilltime is tied with Water Wizards for third place. Scurvy Dawgs is in 5th place after 2 weeks.
Week 3 is on deck with several interesting match-ups on the dirty-dawg docket. Alabama invades the north with a tilt at Wisconsin. We have some MACtion with Central Michigan at
Illinois and Cincinnati at Miami (the other one). It is also PAC-2 rivalry weekend with Oregon at Oregon State and Washington State at Washington. The Week 3 game form closes at the
usual time, which is 11 AM CDT Saturday. Good luck and enjoy the games!
