CFP Semis Shake Up CFCC Standings
By: Sugar (2026-01-11)

After 20 weeks of college and pro football selections, all picks are now in with the launch of the PFCC Super Blow Blowout this weekend! If you play both contests and successfully submitted picks for all 20 weeks (15 CFCC Weeks and 19 PFCC Weeks, 20 total weeks) congratulations on being both organized and committed enough to pull off such a feat! 

We are going to take a quick look back af PFCC Week 18 so we can pass along our usual hearty congratulations to Carl Lindecrantz from Waterloo, IA for winning Week 18 with 86 points and 12 wins. Dan Spaeth from Paducah, KY was the Week 18 runner-up. The overall leaderboard offers no excitement, however, with Teddy Overton back on top for the 2nd week in a row with a 15 point lead over John Zittel, who happens to be the 2017 PFCC Silver Bone recipient. The average score for Week 18 was 48.6 with the low clocking in at -46. Yikes! And just when you think BoomerBacks lead can't get any bigger in group play, you're wrong as they have extended their lead to 61.22 points over No Mistakes Near This Great Lake. We'll see if there are any surprises in the NFL playoffs to shake up the leaderboard as we close out the season.

The CFP semi-finals went down Thursday and Friday and opened with an incredibly entertaining game between Miami and Ole Miss, culminated by a last minute TD run by Carson Beck. I lost count of how many lead changes occured during the game but it was a fantastic tilt under command of Beck and Trinidad Chambliss from Ole Miss. That game is what the CFP is all about, and it was fun to watch Ole Miss make a deep run after their coach skated on them. In the other match-up, the Indiana juggernaut continued to steam down the tracks completely demolishing Oregon along the way. I know there are a lot of people out there that don't think Fernando Mendoza should have won the Heisman, but I'm sure not one of them. It's going to take a perfect effort from Miami to knock off the undefeated Hoosiers next Monday night!

Now, with 318 entries for the CFP Blowout, you may wonder how many dirty-dawgers successfully put their 11 and 12 on Miami and Indiana. The answer is one. One dirty-dawger, by the name of Todd Barron, from Madison, AL has 12 on Indiana and 11 on Miami. Not surprisingly, Todd is now leading the CFP Blowout with 175 point and no player within 10 points of Todd has a 12 on Miami, so Todd will win the CFP Blowout. We will congratulate you later, Todd!

We will also be congratulating Jeff Zoltowski of Garylord, MI who took sole possession of 1st place overall after the CFP semi-final round. Jeff only has an 8 point lead over Gary Petti who has led the CFCC much of the season, but Jeff has a 12 on Indiana and 6 on Miami. Only one player within striking distance of Jeff has a higher confidence on Miami and that would be Jonathan Frazier from Justin, TX and Jonathan trails Jeff by 39 points. In other words, Jeff Zoltowski will be the CFCC 2025 Champion! 

About the only drama we can find is in CFCC Group Play where Stratus-Faction Guaranteed has vaulted into 1st place after the semis. The average score of that 7-dawger team is an impressive 1012.57, lead by the aforementioned Jonathan  Frazier. Stratus-Faction has a small 4.17 point lead over The Border War Still Live in KC so it will be interesting to see which group takes home the crown following the CFP Final on January 19. 

Okay, that's a wrap for now. We don't have any more deadlines to warn you about so we will be back following the NFL Wild Card Round later this week. Until then, enjoy the NFL playoffs and the CFP Final and as always, thanks for playing dirty-dawg.com!

Petti Leads CFCC Field Into Semi-Finals
By: Sugar (2026-01-02)

Happy New Year from dirty-dawg.com! New Year's Eve/Day provided college football junkies with the four much anticipated semi-final games. Unfortunately, only two of them provided much entertainment, if not a few surprises. Similar to the 2024 CFP, 3 of the 4 teams that had byes lost, One of those teams, Texas Tech, flamed out in spectacular fashion. New Year's Eve kicked off with Miami, who many didn't think even deserved to be in the playoff, taking down defending champion Ohio State along with their all player consensus of 10.8. New Year's Day featured Oregon and Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl with two of the best defenses in the country. And both of those defenses showed up. Too bad Texas Tech's offense didn't, which obviouisly was mostly due to Oregon's excellent scheme and play. The Rose Bowl featured a complete blow-out of Alabama at the hands of Indiana. I never thought I would write that sentence two years ago! And in the night-cap, Lane Kiffin-less Ole Miss took down Georgia, which was another 10+ point consensus pick, in a very entertaining game. 

Despite the surprises, the top two players in the overall CFCC standings remain in place. Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, FL holds serve with 1030 points, just seven points ahead of Gaylord, Michigan's Jeff Zoltowski. Howie Moseley is in third place 20 points back, Mike Coyne is in fourth, 25 points off the leading pace, and Dean Moseley is in fifth at 27 back. It appears that it's going to be Mr. Zoltowski at the top when all is said and done as he looks to have the net highest points on the four semi-final teams!! Remember, confidenc factors are multiplied by 5 for the semi-final games and by 10 for the final.

We have a close battle in group competition, as we have had all year. The Border War Still Lives in KC is currently in the lead with 937.40 points, but Stratus-Faction Guaranteed is just 7.69 points back. Water Warriors, BoomerBacks and The Florida Dummies-Legacy are likely all in contention depending on how the rest of the CFP plays out.

Over in the PFCC, we have 17 weeks in the books with Teddy Overton back in the lead after a one week hiatus. Ben Nelson dropped to 2nd place while John Zittel of Golden, Colorado was up  6 spots into the third place. Dirty-dawg veteran John Martynuk won PFCC Week 17 with 62 points on a 10-5 record. Scott Kahn was the runner-up with 56 points. The average score for Week 17 was 24. And I probably don't need to remind you that BoomerBacks has totally run away with the group contest.

Okay, we already sent a reminder that the final regular season week of PFCC (Week 18) has a Saturday deadline, which is 330 PM CST. If you play PFCC and have made it this far, it sure would be a drag if you missed your picks on the last week of the regular season! So don't. Good luck with PFCC Week 18 and with the rest of the CFP!

Nelson New PFCC Leader/CFP Underway
By: Sugar (2025-12-24)

The regular season end is in sight for the longest of the dirty-dawg contests with the PFCC recently wrapping Week 16. Selections are supposed to get easier during the later weeks of the contest, but the PFCC field managed only a paltry 22.7 point average for the week. The week also produced some extreme scores with one dirty-dawger clocking in at -68 (it's Christmas, so we won't embarrass them, this time) while Ben Nelson torched the rest of the PFCC contingent by going 14-1 with 114 points, missing only on Detroit's loss to Pittsburgh. Ben, from St. Augustine, FL is also our new leader after his Week 16 winning performance. Mary C Embry followed up her PFCC Week 15 championship with a 2nd place finish this week going 13-2 with 100 points. Mary was up another 30 places and into the number 10 spot overall after two stellar back to back weeks and is up 100 places since Week 12. Get 'er done, Mary!!  Teddy Overton, who has led the contest since Week 9 was booted into 2nd place, but only 3 points behind the new leader. Matthew Brady was up 6 spots into #3 after 16 weeks.

While the Overton clan has been at least temporarily kicked-out of the top spot, their group, Boomerbacks, continues to lead group play in dominant fashion. The 8 members, 4 with the last name 'Overton' are all in the Top 100 and have an embarrasing large 43.92 point lead over the rest of the field. No Mistakes by this Great Lake are the closest, followed by Hurricane Elvis, which is 64.72 points behind. Tulsa Twisters and Padookie Quack Attack round out the Top 5.

Meanwhile, the College Football Playoff Edition #2, got underway with two competitive games and 2 snoozers. Alabama prevailed in Norman in a contest where receivers had a hard time catching the football and Miami, who some felt shouldn't even have been in the playoff, held Texas A&M to 3 points in a game where neither kicker seemed to be able to kick the ball through those vertical posts in the endzone. And those were the entertaining games! In the non-competitive games, Ole Miss blew out Tulane and Oregon pasted James Madison, and while the game was never close, JMU did out score Oregon in the 2nd half and evened up the statistics (except for the one on the scoreboard). So, JMU, Tulane, Oklahoma and Texas A&M are out. None of these teams had an all player consensus over 6, so this was somewhat expected. However, Miami's conensus of 4 overall and 3 for the Top 10 players, could be a huge factor should they continue to win games, favoring those players of course, that have bigger points on the Hurricanes.

So, after Round 1, Gary Petti continues to lead the field with 1002 points, with Jeff Zoltowski 15 points back. David Shuler leads the CFP Blowout with a whopping 38 points for Round 1, with his 12 on Alabama and 11 on Miami. Dave is currently in 227th place, but if the Tide and Hurricanes keep getting it done, he will be rising much higher! We are still about another week out from CFP Round 2.

Okay, I know it is Christmas Eve and I doubt anyone will even read this, but don't forget that Week 17 PFCC picks are due at 12 Noon CST on Christmas Day!! Tell your friends. Otherwise, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays from your favorite sports contest!