New Overall Leaders Highlight First November Weekend Play

by: Sugar (November 5, 2025)

The first football weekend in November resulted in quite the shake-up on the leaderboard for both contests, both fueled by embarrassing low average scores. Let's start with the PFCC for a change where the Week 9 average score was 11.1! Nice work, everyone! But, there are always standouts for a given week and for Week 9 it was Darren Scherer who scored 65 points on a 10-3 record. He missed KC and Detroit, like everyone else. And also Dallas, but minimized his wounds otherwise to win Week 9.Preston Naden was the Week 9 runner-up with 63 points and Alaina Macfarlane was third with 61 points. And folks, it's getting embarrassing on the overall PFCC scoreboard. What do Teddy Overton, Jeffrey Overton, Deb Bulloch and Carol Overton all have in common? That's right. They are all members of Boomerbacks and also all are in the Top 5 overall standings with Teddy and Jeffrey leading the pack. Only Linda Kunches has been good enough to prevent a complete Boomerback sweep of the Top 5 positions. Boomerbacks increased their overall group lead again, now 61.22 average points ahead of Hurricane Elvis and 62.42 in front of No Mistakes by this Great Lake. For the annual Halloween monster survey, Frankenstein and Hannibal Lecter beat out Dracula and Leatherface.

Over on the junior circuit, the Week 10 average score was a barely-better 35.2 points, led by Lexie Dunn from Rowlett, TX who spanked the rest of the field with an incredible 114 point performance on 14 wins. Lexie only missed Clemson's loss to Duke. Katie Magee was the Week 10 runner-up with 78 points and 10 victories, while Becca Darish was third with 74 points and 11 wins. Interestingly, both Katie and Becca are from Huntsville, Alabama. Taking over the CFCC leaderboard after Week 10 is dirty-dawg veteran Gary Petti from our favorite dirty-dawg city of Weeki Wachee, FL. Gary has 662 points and holds a 2 point lead over last week's leader, Linda English. Paula Miano from Kingston, MA was up 21 points and into 3rd place overall. Over on the group standings we have a unicorn situation as The Border War Still Lives in KC and The Florida Dummies-Legacy are exactly tied for the lead with 596.80 points. Let's hope that changes because I don't think there is a tie-breaker for group play?? Stratus-Faction guaranteed is 26 points back in third place.

There are 4 weeks left in the regular CFCC season and the CFP released their 1st ranking of the season with no huge surprises as far as comparing the CFP rankings to the national polls. CFCC Week 11 is lacking a lot of sizzle as far as match-ups are concerned but Texas A&M goes into Columbia to take on Mizzou in a Top 25 match-up and the best tilt of the week is in Lubbock where Top 10 BYU visits Top 10 Texas Tech at 11 AM CST. ESPN College Gameday will be live from Lubbock, TX for the first time since November 2008, when #1 Texas came to town. And lost. So that means Texas Tech hasn't been very good for 17 years. And if you are familiar with Tommy Tuberville, Kliff Kingsbury and Matt Wells coaching careers, you will understand why. At least Kliff and Matt still have an honorable job and are still making a living coaching. Tuberville, on The other hand, "works" as a senator.

For PFCC Week 9, the good news is that there are no 830 AM CST games in London. The bad news is there is an 830 AM CST game in Berlin! So, make sure you don't miss the deadline and get those picks in before you have more regrets on Sunday morning than what you did Saturday night. Good luck this week!

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!