Wow, Week 15 was frigid in the NFL! Several games were played with temps in the 20s and wind chills in the teens. But wait; it gets worse. Three games were played with actual air temps in the teens and wind chills near ZERO! Can you imagine playiong in that weather? No thanks. I watched those games on TV from the comfort of my toasty house while stuffing my face with snacks. 

I was plenty warm at home but no where near as hot as Mary C. Embry. She was on fire in Week 15 by gaining 98 points on a 12-3 record. Nice job, Mary C! Chad Entremont was ^%(*&# close to beating Mary but came up a tad short at 96 points. Actually, the week's entire Top 5 were incredibly close as Anthony Cavallucci, was third at 94 points while Bill Gargan and Don Baker followed with 92. You probably don't care who rounded out the Top 10 unless you're included in that group, but here they are anyway: Mark Plate, Ray Sondag, Joe Kunches (not to be confused with the uber successful Linda Kunches), Michael Jurewicz, Mark Searcy, Brian Burleson and Ashley Warthen. The smart ones among you just thought, "Hey, exRegionalWeenie can't count. That's the Top 12, not Top 10." You're right. That's because those last four names were all tied for 9th place so I listed all of 'em. You're welcome.

Although there was a handful of dropouts in Week 15, we still had 195 dirty-dawgers turn in picks. Thanks for playing, everyone, but surely you're wondering who came in dead last place. Well, that fame was earned by Danielle Sanchez. Danielle went 6-9 with a paltry -38 points. Whoops. She lost her 12, 14 and 15. Hey, Danielle, why on Earth did you put your 15 on Tua and the warm weather Dolphins to beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh in ice cold weather? Live and learn, Danielle. Live and learn.

Year-to-Date Standings

Once again there was no change at the top of the overall standings as the Overtons still rule. Teddy Overton is still ranked No. 1 and Jeffrey Overton is still No. 2. The good news for Jeffrey is that he reduced Teddy's lead from 11 points to just five.

The Top 2 were unchanged but there was movement in the rest of the Top 10. Steve Listemaa (yes, that's how you spell it) jumped five places and now sits in third place. Steve is followed by Jane Banks and Linda Kunches. All three of them are extrmely close because Steve and Jane both have 859 points (Steve has three more wins) and Linda has 857.

The rest of the Top 10 is incredibly tight. Just TWO POINTS separate those five players as Robert Stonefield and Nick Greenawalt both scored 851 while Linda Ashford, Matthew Brady and Jeff Graschel are each at 849.  Man, this is gonna be CLOSE!!

Group Play Standings

No change here. BoomerBacks still have a commanding lead of almost 50 points. No contest. In fact, they're such a lock that you have to put $10 on them on Polymarket just to earn $10.01. Second place is presently owned by Hurricane Elvis while No Mistakes near this Great Lake is floating in third.

WARNING!!! We're at that time of year... a **Saturday** deadline to enter your picks. Check it out:

Well, not a real trophy. More like a virtual trophy, and I mean virtual as in fake (not a Zoom or Google meeting). So, Zach Sefcovic indeed won the Week 14 NFL contest but he did NOT win an actual trophy.  After all, this is dirty-dawg, it's a free contest and you don't even receive a trophy if you win the entire contest, let alone win just one week. But, nice job on winning Week 14, Zack!!

Zack set the pace by gaining 63 points on a 10-3 record.  A bunch of other players had the same 10-3 record but their points ranged from 55 down to 49 so the official standings show them from second place  down to eighth place. Not bad at all - just not a Zack-level of goodness. Those seven players were Dan Spaeth, Matt Rendall, David Carroll, Tom Fannin, Mary C Embry, Derrick Snyder and Robert Ricks. My fondness of round numbers compels me to inform you that Mitchell Gaines and Don Adams rounded out the Top 10 in Week 14. See, isn't that better than leaving you with just the Top 8? Why, of course it is.

As far as the actual games go, did you see the snow games in Buffalo and Cleveland? The snow was very light in Cleveland and didn't impact the game. However, the Buffalo snow was legit (by some standards, not by Buffalo's). Check it out:

We had 201 players in PFCC in Week 14. You already know the high score. Here's the average score: 24 for the Top 50 players but just 10 when you include all players. Now here's the fun part... the LOW score for the week was a hideous -31, thanks to Phil Stiegman's "effort." At least Phil played. We had about 40 people fail to submit picks (no excuses - it wasn't Thanksgivng weekend!) and they were each assigned Phil's score of -31. Take that, you quitters!

So where does Week 14 leave us in the overall contest? I'm glad you asked. It leaves us... unchanged. The year-to-date standings are still headed up by two Overtons: Teddy Overton still leads the contest (808 points) while Jeffrey Overton is still in second place, just 11 points behind. Jane Banks, Jeff Graschel and Linda Kunches round out the overall Top 5.  

You're probably too lazy to read about the Group Play standings unless you're in one of the top groups. So, I'll make it easy on you. Forget reading; all you have to do is look:

See, that wasn't bad, was it? Good luck in Week 15 PFCC!

Just like the 25 years before this one, the college football regular season is over way too soon! Remember back in August when we were all looking forward to the next 14 weeks and thinking about how long that is? Like Henry Hill states at the end of Goodfellas, "And now it's all over". If you haven't seen Goodfellas, that would be a good way to spend the extra time you will have on Saturdays now. The next-to-last CFP standings are out this evening and we now have a pretty good idea of who is locked-in and where the drama may occur this upcoming weekend. We won't rehash all of the scenarios here, but I will say that if I told you in August that Texas and Texas Tech would both be alive at the end of this season and one would be locked in to the playoff and the other would be whining on all of the media outlets about being left out, which team would you think was which? Fun fact, approximate NIL spending on the UT roster was $35-40 Million. Appoximate spending on TTU roster was $28 Million. Texas did play the tougher schedule. And lost 3 games, including a bad loss to Florida. UT may yet squeak into the CFP, but while much of college football was waiting for TTU to be a big flop after their "egregious NIL spending", UT, which spent more and always has a superior roster on paper was losing to Florida and not playing Ohio State or Georgia close. There are at least 12 other teams more worthy of the CFP this year than UT and my guess is the CFP selection panel thinks so too. And how about the Lane Kiffin drama? Man, he hasn't caused this much negative press since he bolted for USC after one year at Tennessee and students set mattresses on fire! I feel badly for the Ole Miss contingent. They are a great team and have had a great year.

Okay, so keeping with the fire theme, Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, FL has had all of the CFCC answers since assuming the overall lead in Week 10 and leads the CFCC field into the CFP Blowout with 982 points on an overall record of 152-58. Gary holds a 22 point lead over dirty-dawg veteran Jeff Zoltowski of Gaylord, Michigan. Jeff has had a stellar season with 960 points and 147 victories. And one of the dirty-dawg Master Overlords, Mike Coyne from Mansfield, Texas ends the regular season in third place with 954 points and 150 wins. Howie and Dean Moseley (2019 Bronze), of the vaunted Moseley/Florida Dummies clan, are sitting in 4th and 5th place with Linda English in 6th. Brett Williams and Chris Nuttall are 7th and 8th with Francis Krendsor in 9th. Our 2006 CFCC Champion, Derek Eisentrout and 2024 champ Courtney Carpenter lurk in 10th and 11th places. And how about some special love for triple-boner dirty-dawg veteran Bryan Tilley and Candise Ryder locking up best record awards at 153-57. Great season Bryan and Candise! There are 87 players within 100 points of the leader heading into the CFP Blowout, so many dawgers still have a shot at the overall title.

The average score for Week 14, otherwise known as Rivalry Week, was 75 with weekly champion honors going to Gregg Nolte from Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Gregg had 116 points with a 14-1 record, missing only on Navy's upset of Memphis. So, Gregg missed the Thanksgiving evening game, but ran the table on Friday and Saturday. Great job, Gregg. Dave Marsalek from Bay Village, Ohio was the Week 14 runner-up on 13 wins and 114 points, missing his 2 on Memphis and 1 on Tennessee. For the popular Group Play segment, The Border War Still Lives in KC is pacing the field at the pause with an average player score of 882 points. That's 5.43 better than Stratus_Faction Guaranteed and a little over 20 points better than Water Warriors. Boomerbacks and The Florida Dummies-Legacy round out the Top 5. It will be interesting to watch how the group scores ebb and flow as we move through the CFP Blowout.

Now that the regular season games are over, we take the championship games weekend off so you all can enjoy them without worrying about your 15 going down the tubes. Once the CFP releases their final 12 playoff teams the evening of Sunday, December 7th (in a 4 hour show, WTH??), we will post the Week 15 Game Form, otherwise known as the CFP Blowout. You will put a confidence factor of 1 through 12 on each playoff team, with your 1 going on the team that has zero chance to win it all and the 15 going on the team you think will take home the championship. For each game a team wins you earn points. The deeper into the tournament these teams win, you get more points. There are no negative points for the CFP Blowout!! Confused? Check out the dirty-dawg rules page, that you probably didn't know exists.

Meanwhile, the PFCC keeps chugging along with a bevy of games through the long Thanksgiving Weekend. Detroit kept to their usual script of getting beat on Thanksgiving Day, and Dallas surprised The Chiefs. Denver won like its 9th in a row with a thriller over Washington on Sunday night and New England spanked the Giants on the Monday Night finale. Ben Lott from Endicott, New York had a great week going 13-2 with 102 points to take home the PFCC weekly glory for Week 13. Ben tripped up only on the Lions and the Colts. Robert Ricks from Gulfport, MS was the runner-up. Average score for the week was a sorry 26 with a low score of (gulp) -20. There was no movement in the Top 5 of the overall standings for Week 13 with Teddy Overton and Jeffrey Overton continuing in the first and second place spots. Only 29 points separates the Top 10 players though, so the Overton's will continue to feel the heat from the players just below. However, the Overton's are NOT feeling the heat in group play as their team, BoomerBacks, continues to embarrass the rest of the field. Boomerbacks holds a 46.52 point lead over Hurricane Elvis and 67.32 point lead over No Mistakes by this Great Lake. 

Okay, remember the CFCC is on pause until the CFP field is officially released Sunday evening. Once that happens, we will get a game form up as soon as possible. And of course, the Week 14 PFCC game form is already active with 13 games ready to go all on Sunday and starting at noon CST. You also have the chance to tell us how you feel about fake Christmas trees and Jim Carey. Good luck with PFCC Week 14 and enjoy the college football conference championships games stress-free!