Thanksgiving Day Deadlines Loom After Easy Weekend

by: Sugar (November 25, 2025)

The planets aligned and the gods smiled on the dirty-dawg field over the weekend of November 22-23 with average all-player scores of 73.5 and 66.5 for CFCC Week 13 and PFCC Week 12 respectively. Only one regular season week remains for CFCC 2025 and that week kicks off Thanksgiving Evening at 630 PM and continues through Saturday with several rivalry games and other top match-ups will determine the conference championship games the following weekend and ultimately determine the final CFP rankings which will be announced on Sunday, December 6. Meanwhile, the PFCC keeps moving along, but remember we play the traditional Thanksgiving Day games here at dirty-dawg.com, so the deadline for PFCC Week 13 will be 12 Noon CST when the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions kick off in Detroit.  So, get those picks in now before you get caught up in all of the holiday hoopla and have more regrets Thanksgiving evening than eating too much and making the decision to drive half-way across the country to spend quality time with your in-laws!

For CFCC Week 13, Scott Kahn took home the weekly championship title with a whopping 114 points on a 13-2 record. Like several dawgers, Scott had a perfect record going into the evening games, but his perfect record was thwarted by Illinois (2) and Cincinnati (1) losses. But, if you are going to lose two games, your 1 and 2 confidence games are the ones to lose. Our 2008 CFCC champion, Cyndi Pulis, was the Week 13 runner-up with 104 points and a 12-3 record. The overall leaderboard continues to be topped by Gary Petti who has now led the contest for 4 weeks in a row. Jeff Zoltowski, Howie Moseley, Mike Coyne and 2019 bronze boner Dean Moseley round out the top 5 after 13 weeks of play. After exchanging the group play lead several times this season so far, The Border War Still Lives in KC reclaimed the leadership position following Week 13 and now hold a 13.71 points lead over Stratus-Faction Guranteed and a 15.20 point lead over The Florida Dummies-Legacy, despite TFD-L having 2 players in the Top 5 overall! 

For PFCC Week 12, there were 5 players that tied for the weekly champ title with 109 points and a 12-1 record. So, take a bow, David Davis, Tyler Castillo, Hank Bauer, Mike Coyne and Matthew O'Neill. Interesting fact here is that only 2 of the 5 players missed the same team (Philly). The other losers were Tennessee, Arizona and Las Vegas. When the smoke cleared, there was zero movement among the top 5 players with Teddy Overton, Jeffrey Overton (2023 Runner-Up), Jeff Graschel, Linda Kunches (2017 Runner-Up) and Deb Bulloch remaining steady. Meanwhile, the domination continues in group play by Boomerbacks who hold a 47.82 lead over Hurricane Elvis and 67.82 over No Mistakes by this Great Lake. Boomerbacks has 8 players and all are in the top 54 in the PFCC standings. Very, very impressive. 

Okay, we already mentioned the new game forms are up and due on Thanksgiving Day. You will receive the usual email reminder notifications each morning that is inside of 60 hours to the respective deadline. With the conclusion of CFCC Week 14, we will pause for the conference championships and will await the 12 team CFP seedings before making the CFP Blowout Form available, with CFP games commencing on December 19.

Until then, Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at dirty-dawg.com to you and yours. Enjoy the holiday and the long football weekend!

Football Season Gets Crazy for the Holidays

By Boda November 21, 2025

College Football Coming into the Home Stretch

With week 12 of College Football in the rear view mirror, games are gaining more meaning as teams jockey for playoff qualification and/or seeding. Several teams have pretty much locked in a playoff berth, but have games looming over the next two weeks where talented rivals are positioned to act as spoilers. Some of those have playoff aspirations of their own and just need their own upsets mesh with help from other teams to make up ground. Let’s start with the idea that anyone with three losses is not going to make the playoff, and many teams with two losses will be outside looking in as well.

In the Big 12, Texas Tech is pretty much locked into the playoff but BYU will have to beat a good Cincinnati team and hope for some help to have a shot to get in. All despite just 1 loss. In the ACC, Georgia Tech currently is projected in the playoff, but has to beat Georgia and Pittsburgh - or another ACC member such as Miami or Virginia could sneak in. Pittsburgh is out, but gets a huge chance to play spoiler against both Georgia Tech and Miami to close out the regular season. A lot of crazy possibilities from an otherwise underwhelming ACC. In the Big Ten, Indiana and Ohio State are locks, but even 5th place Michigan still has a shot to win the conference. For that to happen, they would have to win out (including against Ohio State) and hope Oregon beats USC and then loses to Washington. The Big Ten looks likely to get three teams in the playoff but there are outside chances for either 2 or 4. The biggest game is this week when USC goes to Oregon for a major showdown. In the SEC, there is all sorts of mess to deal with. Texas is out but can play spoiler against A&M by knocking the Aggies out of a top 4 seed. Two-loss Vandy has a shot at getting in but must beat rival Tennessee to have a chance with two losses. Ole Miss is definitely in with 1 loss, although dirty-dawg.com recommends Mississippi State gets a 15 in the Egg Bowl. Two losses and they might still get in - but it'll be close. Oklahoma looks in good shape after beating Alabama last weekend, except they now have to beat Missouri in the Vesper Bowl this coming weekend. And, almost forgot, a Notre Dame upset to either Boston College of Stanford would make everyone a whole lot happier.

Pro Football Approaching its Own Brand of Logjam

So this is what can happen when the NFL legislates parity based on strength of schedule. Through week 11 (in which most teams have played just 10 games so far) we have the AFC logjam where 3 of the 7 teams so far aligned in a playoff spot were not in the playoffs last year. All three, as it turns out, were beneficiaries of having among the 5 weakest strength of schedules in conference. The Patriots, by far, have benefitted the most - so be wary of the Patriots collapsing in the playoffs. Similarly, the Colts 8-2 record will need to hold up against a much tougher schedule down the stretch - in fact, the toughest in the AFC. Compare that to the fortunes of traditional powers Kansas City and Baltimore, who are currently on the outside looking in - mostly or in part due to having had the two toughest strength of schedules so far in the AFC. These teams are still good and are knocking at the back door of the playoffs, thus creating a pileup at the back and hopefully making a charge that will result in an exciting finish through the last 6-7 games of the season.

The NFC is similar in that the Bears, 49ers, and Seahawks are all in playoff spots so far this year but weren’t a year ago. Just the 49ers have benefited from the easiest schedule in the NFC. In fact, the 49ers easy schedule pretty much extends through the end of the year and they seem almost a lock to get into the playoffs. The Bears are an outlier in that despite qualifying for the last place schedule this year, have actually ended up with the 2nd toughest by virtue of being in a hard division and playing crossover games against the NFC East and AFC North. In the home stretch it’ll be interesting to see if the Bears have staying power to make the playoffs. The Lions and Packers are lurking within a game, each having played very tough schedules thus far. Despite a 7-3 record, the Bears will be challenged to make the playoffs, let alone win the division.

Week 12 CFCC/11 PFCC Wrap-Upby: Sugar (November 19, 2025)

Special Note!! Watch for early Thanksgiving Day deadlines for both CFCC Week 14 and PFCC Week 13!!!

Things are geting down to the nitty-gritty for CFCC 2025 as Week 12 is in the books with Week 13 barreling down the tracks! We have written in this space a couple times this year about Battered Aggie Syndrome and boy did it go unexpectedly into effect during Week 12. However, it went into effect for just one half, perhaps signalling that this really is a different Texas A&M football team. I have rarely a seen team so obviously not ready to play turn it completely around and come back from 27 points down to keep their #3 CFP spot intact. Great job on the comeback, Aggie friends, even if some of you came close to a heart attack during the game! And OU fans are getting their swagger back after taking down Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, with less than 300 yards of offense.

Dan Dixon from Madison, Alabama and Robert Banks from Fort Wayne, Indiana tied for CFCC Week 12 honors with 106 points and 12 wins. (Robert, sorry we missed you with the headline!) Dan missed TCU and Cincinnati, but had 11 on Oklahoma! Eleven?? That was a 19 point departure from consensus. I wonder where Dan went to college?? Robert did NOT select Oklahoma and also lost 5 on Cincinnati. Great job, dawgs! The average score for Week 12 was 61 with a low of -2. Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, Florida continues to pace the CFCC field with 814 points and 129 victories. Gary maintains a 24 point lead over Linda English and a 26 point lead over veteran dirty-dawger "Jeff Zman Zoltowski" from Gaylord, Michigan. The top 14 players after Week 12 are all within 50 points of the lead so it is looking like a close finish heading into the CFP Blowout after Week 14. The Florida Dummies-Legacy remains at the top of the group standings with a score of 725.60, which is 11.60 points better than Stratus-Faction Guarnteed and The Border War Still Lives in KC. 

Over on the senior circuit, some of the pre-season favorites have been struggling this season with last year's Super Bowl runner-up, Kansas City, sitting at a cool 50% winning percentage and some Detroit Lion's fans starting to get that old feeling again! And not the good one. The Overton Twins (they probably really aren't twins) Teddy and Jeffrey are within one point of each other and continue to lead the contest for the 2nd straight week. Teddy has 668 points, with slacker Jeffrey running behind with only 667. Jeff Graschel is third with 661 points. Dan Valle won Week 11 with 103 points, missing only on The chiefs. Mary C. Embry wa the Week 11 PFCC runner-up and the average score was a sorry 49.2. Oh, <yawn> did we mention that Boomerbacks is in the group lead by a whopping 55.32 points over Hurricane Elvis? 

Okay, the game forms are up and accepting picks for CFCC Week 13 and PFCC Week 12. The good news? The PFCC deadline is the usual 12 Noon CST. The bad news? There are only 2 regular season CFCC weeks left on the schedule. REMEMBER, both the CFCC Week 14 and PFCC Week 13 game forms will be due Thanksiving Day. In the meantime, good luck with your selections this week!