Sikora/Bigelbach Tie for Week 1 PFCC Honors

by: Sugar (September 10, 2025)

The marathon of all dirty-dawg contests is finally under way after the big boys finally kicked off their season on Thursday, September 4. Of course, we don't deal with those early NFL games and stick strictly (for the most part) to the Sunday/Monday games. The PFCC field had a very good week with the majority of the games going the way the Vegas boys expected them to go. The average player score for Week 1 was in impressive 75.1 and the scores ranged from a low of 5 points to a high of 115 points. Any PFCC week where there are no negative scores is a good PFCC week!

A total of 15 players scored over 100 points during Week 1 and those scores were led by two players that knocked down 115 points for the week. What?? John Sikora from Saint Albans, WV and Brandon Bigelbach from the NFL hotspot of Glasgow, Montana are the Week 1 co-champions. John dropped his 2 game on the NY Giants and Brandon lost his 2 game on my Detroit Lions, unfortunately. They ran the table, otherwise, and are due congratulations from dirty-dawgers everywhere!

We have bad news for the rest of the field as we head on over to the Group Standings after Week 1. Group titan Boomerbacks is already in the lead with a 6.25 point lead over ReLaXers and 7.25 point lead over Shedeur's Future is Oblique. Boomerbacks is always a power in PFCC group play so the rest of the groups better buckle-up and make some heroic picks as we head deeper into the season.

We have a special treat this week for Week 2 PFCC. There are actually 15 games to evaluate, including 2 on Monday night. And as an added bonus, the deadline is still at Noon CDT Sunday. But, don't sleep on those stupid early deadlines that will be on the docket later in the season. We will try to warn you when those games appear. Otherwise, get those picks in now before you screw the pooch. Automated reminders will start Friday morning for PFCC players that entered last week and don't have their picks in yet for this week. Good luck and enjoy!

Diegan Wins CFCC Week 2

by: Sugar (September 9, 2025)

As stated in this column last week, it appears the weeks of a bunch of 120 scores early in the CFCC are definitely over. Week 2 was brutal on the field with several upsets producing an average player score of an embarrassing 32 points. I mean, us directors are embarrassed and most of you should be too! Florida loses to South Florida. Kansas State loses to Army, which lost to Tarleton State the week before. Arizona State loses and Virginia Tech loses for the 2nd week in a row. We love Virginia Tech screwing dirty-dawgers so much, we have them on the Week 3 form against Old Dominion. They won't lose 3 weeks in a row, will they?

As always, though, many dirty-dawgers made some great calls for Week 2. None were better than Allan Diegan from Paducah, Kentucky who went 12-3 and scored 80 points to take home the Week 2 trophy (like there really is one). Allan missed 13 on Florida like the rest of us, but only dropped 6 on Boston College and, in his best call of the week, only had 1 on KSU, which was 11 confidence points lower than the all-member consensus on that game. Nice work, Mr. Diegan!

The best record for the week goes to Jeremy Buckles from Strawberry Plains, Tennessee (is that a real place??). Jeremy went a stellar 13-2, but took two double-digit dings with 12 on Florida and 13 on K-State. Ouch! Despite the 25 point hit, Jeremy was up one spot into the overall leader position with 168 points after 2 weeks of play. Ian McNeil was up 12 spots to #2, with Mike Borden, Gunner Driver (that can't be his real name?) and Eric Forinash rounding out the Top 5.

In Group Play, Padookie Possum Trotters have taken over the lead with a small cushion on last week's leaders, The Border War Still Lives in KC. West Coast Walk Off, perennial powerhouse and defending Group Champion Bucknutz and the Know Nothings occupy the rest of the Top 5.

We have some great match-ups on the form for Week 3, besides the much anticipated Va Tech/Old Dominion game. Wisconsin goes into The House that Saban Built, Georgia invades Knoxville, South Florida goes to the Convicts, Arkansas and Ole Miss tangle, while Texas A&M takes on the Catholics in South Bend. Sounds like another low confidence week! As always, the game form closes at 11 AM CDT on Saturday, so don't snooze and lose.

A quick programming note: we had to make some changes to our scoring routine for players within each group. Due to this change, some players that are members of groups are not showing up in the group standings. If this happens to you or any of your group members, just shoot us an email and we will get that fixed up for you. You can continue to create groups, drop players (again with an email to us) or add players through Week 7. Good luck with Week 3.

Week 1 CFCC 2025 College Football Malfeasance

By Boda September 4, 2025

Usually, we get a series of opening week cupcake games where blue-blood powerhouses feast on FCS opponents on their home field. Dirty-Dawgers get to feast on those games as well, but not so much this year. Penn State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Georgia, USC, Oregon, etc. were all left off the CFCC Week 1 Game Form. Instead, we got a few big intersectional games, a bunch of Low-Vegas-Spread specials, plus our annual kickoff battle of Mississippi State versus Not Mississippi State. As a result, the usual Week 1 deluge of 15-0 and 14-1 records didn’t materialize this year. In their place, we got one 14-1 record (not even for first place) and a legitimate -62 point effort where confidence factors 10-15 all lost - and mostly on favorites Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson, Oregon State, and Texas (sort of). Once again, there is a fine line between a successful CFCC week and disaster as decent picks combined with bad confidence factors often end in malfeasance. On the plus side, the 2025 contest starts off with Mike Norden of Mount Juliet TN in the lead with 100 points and a 13-2 record (losing only 3 on Oregon State and 7 on the Tom Brady-less NC Tar Heels). Mike is followed closely by both Jeremy Buckles (14-1; 98 pts) and Gunner Driver (13-2; 98 pts).

In Group play, "The Border War Still Lives in KC" is in first after the Week 1 festivities - followed by Water Warriors and The Passing Wind. More importantly, for this year's best name, we at dirty-dawg.com world headquarters are picking the HUNderdawgs from NWS Huntsville over the perennial favorites from San Antonio. Why ? To hear them decribe it;"A team of Huntsville meteorologists who can nail a seven-day forecast but somehow turn college football picks into a Category 5 disaster. Each week they huddle like it’s a severe weather briefing—complete with charts, probabilities, and bold predictions—only to watch their “sure thing” get blown away faster than a pop-up thunderstorm." Yep. Sounds about right. Our runners-up from San Antonio still made a strong entry in typical hilarious fashion as "The Trending Digital Reporters at MYSA". However, the tea leaves weren't quite lined up this year.

And the good news for everybody, the games will get tougher from here on. Week 2 games are all on Saturday (September 6), and feature the Michigan at Oklahoma Orange Bowl Preview, the Kansas at Missouri Border War, Not Mississippi State at Mississippi State (Bahama Bowl Preview), and of course Houston at Rice (on the Texas A&M Practice Field). The Deadline, as always, is 1100 am CDT, Noon EDT, and 1230 pm in Newfoundland.