Clemson to Repeat as National Champions!!

by: Sugar (August 20, 2019)

Or not. But that's what the pre-season polls say. But have you ever noticed how hard it is to repeat? When you are the defending champion, every team plays their best game against you and everything has to go just right to make it happen two years in a row. Clemson looks really hard to beat this year to me, but my guess is they won't win it again. Maybe it will be Alabama that takes home the trophy again this year, but I doubt that too. It just seems like it is time for another team to dethrone the recent annual favorites. Maybe it will be Georgia, or Oklahoma or another highly ranked team like that, but it very well could be another team that puts together a surprise season. Time will tell of course.

Speaking of time, remember that CFCC 2019 kicks off Labor Day Weekend. The Week 1 game form will launch the weekend before with a yet to be determined deadline. It is time to stop messing around and get those groups formed and populated. While you are at it, make sure to recruit some new dirty-dawgers for the 2019 season. Current player referrals are the life-blood of dirty-dawg and the fresh meat every year is what keeps the contest populated with virgin football souls.

For you fans of the big boys, the PFCC will launch September 8 and we will have more information on that as that dates draws closer.

Good luck with CFCC 2019!

PFCC 2018 Wrap: Gary Petti/Going Up For the TD Claim Crowns

by: Sugar (March 16, 2019)

The dirty-dawg directors apologize for the time lapse between the end of the PFCC and this season summary. Our senior writer fell asleep during Super Bowl 53 and just woke up! It's pretty sad when the most exciting thing about the game was Maroon 5 at halftime. And the commercials. Oh, and Tom Brady led New England to another Super Bowl Championship. Hey, we love dynasties here at dirty-dawg.com, but this was a yawner, no matter how you look at it.

But, thanks to the PFCC, the longest of the dirty-dawg contests, the Super Bowl Blowout was anything but a yawner with just 17 points separating the final three bone earners, and a whisper-thin 7 points separating the Super Bowl Blowout (SBB) itself!

Gary Petti from Weeki Wachee, Florida is the 2018 dirty-dawg.com PFCC Champion! Gary hung around the top of the standings most of the season and was sitting at #2 going into the Super Bowl Blowout. Gary notched 256 SBB points to take home all of the PFCC glory for 2018 with 1171 points. Congratulations, Gary. Enjoy the Gold Bone for the rest of your dirty-dawg career and you will have the respect of dirty-dawgers everywhere, forever.

Mark Didrick of Fort Wayne, Indiana is the 2018 runner-up, finishing with 1165 points, just 6 behind Gary. Mark notched 251 SBB points to claim second place and his first dirty-dawg bone. Congrats, Mark! Asam Michael also gets a bone, finishing 3rd overall with 1154 points and a stellar 262 SBB points. The rest of the Top 10 includes Mike Johnson, who was only 3 points out of 3rd place. Some earlier week, probably during graveyard shifts, a bad 2 confidence pick sealed Mikey's boneless fate. John Leibold, who owns 2 Bronze Bones (2013, 2017) finished in 5th place, while Kent Ross wrapped up in 6th. Last year's Silver Bone winner, Linda Kunches had another great year with a 7th place overall finish. Jane Banks, Ed Tannehill and Melissa Harral round out the Top 10 performers for 2018. Great job all!

For the SBB itself, we saw one of the tightest races in a long time with Lori Orosco, from Colorado Springs, Colorado finishing at the top of the standings with 290 points. When you have 12 on the Super Bowl winner and 11 on the runner-up like Lori did, it helps your score. A lot. But, it took some premier confidence placement on the other teams as well as only 7 points separated all of the Top 10 SBB finishers. Congrats, Lori! Joe Baskin from Lorena, Texas, wound up as runner-up by one lousy point at 289. Those 1 confidence picks during the season can come back to bite you! Joe also had 12 on New England and 11 on the Rams. Chris McKinney was 3rd, 2 points back. The 9 he put on LA was the difference. Robert Stonefield had the right confidence factors in the right place and finished 4th overall. Jeff Vitale was 5th and had 11 and 12 on the Super Bowl teams, but in the wrong order. Jeff's name would be at the top otherwise. Bill Gargan, Chuck Wolfe, Cindy Boyd, Stephen Bilodeau and LCH Harrall were the other Top 10 finishers for the SBB in order.

For Group Play, it is always a long slog in the PFCC. Lot's of weeks. Early games across the pond. It isn't easy keeping a team on track for about half the year. So, let's all congratulate Going Up 4 the Touchdown, which took home the 2018 Group Play championship with an outstanding average score of 1057 points. Not far behind was Hailraisers with 1051.83 points and several points off the championship pace, but still good enough for 3rd place was perennial group play powerhouse, Boomerbacks at 999.22.

We hope you all enjoyed the 20th year offering of the PFCC. We have been around so long that some of the founders of this whole deal are getting close to retiring from their real jobs and will be able to put more time into something more productive and enjoyable! In the meantime, don't forget the College Basketball Confidence Contest coming very soon and then we will be back in September for the marathon dirty-dawg contest, PFCC 2019. Have a great spring/summer from all of us at dirty-dawg.com!

CFCC 2018 Wrap: Who Can it Binau?

by: Sugar (January 9, 2019)

Another incredible season of college football is in the books and that brings dirty-dawg.com's 2018 College Football Confidence Contest to another close. And to all but about 46 dirty-dawgers' surprise, the Clemson Tigers handed the Alabama Crimson Tide its worst loss of the Nick Saban era in the National Championship game. Now Clemson may have (temporarily) ended the Crimson Tide dominance, the same cannot be said for the Binau family domination of dirty-dawg.com's CFCC! Seth Binau from Clarksville, OH maintained a fairly comfortable lead for the last several weeks of CFCC 2018 and hedged on the championship game with 14 on the Tide. Seth remained in 1st place throughout 14 Bowl Blowout games, but Seth's relative, Sam Binau, also from Clarksville, OH is the 2018 CFCC Champion after roaring from 37th place on 129 Bowl Blowout points to take home the championship. Sam had a big fat 25 on Clemson in the final game to power himself to victory with 817 points. It was a tough year for CFCCers and that is reflected in the fact that 817 points is the lowest winning score ever. Congratulations, Sam. Great pick on Clemson and you will be forever honored by dirty-dawgers everywhere. Enjoy the gold bone next to your name!

Seth did hang on for runner-up honors and earned his first bone, despite being an annual dirty-dawg force. Seth finished with 775 points, 42 points back. The bronze bone for 2018 went to Alisha Mize from Buda, TX, who finished with 762 points and an outstanding 150 wins. Congratulations to Seth Binau and Alisha Mize for their stellar seasons.

Just outside the Top 3 we find another Binau powerhouse, Aidan Binau, owner of the 2016 championship and 2014 runner-up CFCC bones. Aidan plays from Billings, MT and was only 3 points away from becoming just the 2nd dirty-dawger with 3 bones. In 5th place was Lubbock, Texas player Joe Merchant, who finished 2nd for the Bowl Blowout, also powered by 25 points on Clemson. Joe finished with 755 overall points and was up 150 slots after a 152 point, 15-9 Bowl Blowout resume. And speaking of 3 bones, we find that owner, in the form of Oxford, Michigan's Bryan Tilley, in 6th place overall with 753 points, just 9 points from earning an unprecedented 4th bone. Bryan was up 90 spots after a 16-8 blowout.

Pete Fickenscher finished 7th overall and Jeri Adams was 8th. Trinna Patterson from Memphis, TN finished 9th and Mark Didrick of Fort Wayne, IN finished 10th. We always talk about how dirty-dawg is a confidence contest and it is all about the points. However, if your name is Mark and you live in a city that is part of a fort you apparently have an advantage in picking winners. Look no further than the aforementioned Mark Didrick of Fort Wayne and Mark Wiley of Fort Worth who both finished with a contest high 151 wins. While Mr. Didrick finished in 10th place with 741 points, Mr. Wiley finished in 26th place with 689 points. Yes, the confidence factors rule, but congrats to the Marks nonetheless for straight up picking game winners.

For the Bowl Blowout, John Malone from Henderson, TX was the big winner with an incredible 209 points on an 18-6 record. And he had Alabama as the champion. Joe Merchant was the Bowl Blowout runner-up with 152 points. Dale Lininger from Buda, TX finished 3rd with 143 points. Dick Wagenmaker was 4th overall for the Bowl Blowout with 137 points and a blowout best 19 wins. This stellar performance made Wagenmaker the biggest mover for the Bowl Blowout, rocketing 216 spots up to #37 overall. Very impressive Wag! Charlie Woodrum was 5th overall with 137 points on 16 wins.

For the popular Group Play competition, Do We Really Have Time for This? took home the honors with an average score of 676.40 points. They were powered by Buda, TX players Alisha Mize (Bronze Bone) and Matthew O'Neill (12th overall). All in the Family was group runner-up with 650.5 points and the Binau/Schomaker dynasty and multi-year group play winners Bucknutz finished 3rd with 636.56. High Plains Drifters were 4th with 626 points and Morass of Ordinary Effort finished 5th with 612.17.

That's another wrap for the 20th overall season of dirty-dawg.com's CFCC. We hope you all enjoyed the contest and a big thanks goes to the dirty-dawg directors. It takes several dawgs, with other real jobs, to pull this off every season and they know who they are. We'll be back in fall 2019 with another version of the best contest on the web. Have a great winter, spring and summer from all of us at dirty-dawg.com!