ATTENTION: Did you enter your Dirty Dawg picks yet? Beware of this week's early deadlines!! CFCC Week 13: Giving Thanksby: exRegionalWeenieThanks. Thank you. No, really, I mean it. THANK YOU! Your picks for college's Week 13 were so bad that I scored just 6 lousy points yet didn't drop at all in the overall standings. The key to success in life is too surround yourself with losers. I admit that I stunk - but you stunk more. And for that I am very thankful. So, thank you! Please don't mistakenly interpret the above statements to mean that I'm better than you. You may do so accurately - not mistakenly. Just remember that the problem with being better than everyone is that people tend to think that I am pretentious. (Hat tip to despair.com). We had a bit of everything in Week 13. A couple of expected blowouts (Michigan State took Rutgers to the woodshed; Baylor over Okla. State) and a couple unexpected blowouts (Ole Miss and Utah were favored but lost big). We had a couple pre-Rivalry Week rivalry games when Western Michigan beat Central Michigan and UCLA took it to USC. Also, last-second field goals were all the rage: - Illinois used a last-second FG to upset Penn State - FSU used a last-second FG to eek out a win over BC - Notre Dame missed a last-second FG to lose to Louisville rather than go to overtime. Run, Sammy, Run Wasn't the run game a thing of the past? Aren't running backs going the way of the dinosaur? Well, someone better tell the NCAA. Unless you're a hardcore fan of the University of Oklahoma, you never heard of true freshman RB Samaje Perine - until Week 13. He rushed for a FBS single game record 427 yards against Kansas. Samaje broke the previous record of 408 yards which was set just one week earlier by Wisconsin RB Melvin Gordon. If RBs are less important these days, someone better tell these two guys. Weekly Results: Liz Sommerville and Raymond Jojola won Week 13. They both rolled with 66 points - 11 times our average score of 6 points. Remember when I said you stunk? Well, you did (thanks again) but Liz and Raymond did not. Ryan Husted was close behind with 64. John Keyes and Charley Kelly rounded out the week's Top 5. New Overall Leader by a Nose: Kurt Van Speybroeck was mediocre this week but he was good enough to take over first place - sort of. He tied previous leader Hank Bauer with 764 points for the year and he has one more victory than Hank. That's as close as it gets. Fortunately, we still have Week 14 and the Bowl Blowout remaining, so there are hundreds of points still to be had. Three new names appear in the overall Top 5: Travis Washington, Jeffrey Overton and David Rowell. Previous Leader Crashes & Burns Michael Boyer was the overall leader heading into Week 13. Not any longer. He fell all the way down to 12th after flaming out with a 5-10, -38 point week. That's minus 38. This is the individual equivalent to unranked Arkansas' 30-0 shutout of then-8th ranked Ole Miss. Group Standings: Three groups are bunched near the top but bragging rights - at least for now - belong to The Spectacular Stupendous Florida Dummies. They have a slim lead over HookenHorns and Shake&Bake. All three names should be familiar to the reader because they seem to be near the top every week, every year. REMEMBER - WATCH OUT FOR THE EARLY DEADLINES THIS WEEK! |
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