CFCC Wrap: Upsets Highlight Week 3 Carnage

by: Sugar (September 14)

You know, every year one of our sadistic game selectors here at dd World HQ selects the Iowa State/Iowa tilt for dirty-dawg and every year I get it wrong. Bad wrong. I know it's a rivalry game and I know you can throw out the point spread, but every year I ignore that and put big numbers on the favorite, which is usually the Iowa Hawkeyes. This year, 11 on the Hawkeyes. Dumb, dumb, dumb. You can remind me next year, but I'll probably be writing the same article! The whole thing violates my principle of not putting big points on crappy teams. I also missed Virginia Tech in an obvious let-down game. I also missed Texas Tech, who was run over by Arkansas after I planned on taking the Razorbacks all week. The latter two violate my principle of not putting big points on teams that end in "Tech". And are crappy teams.

Thankfully for me, greatness was hard to come by in a Week 3 that ended with an average player score of 41. It could have been worse. We could have selected the USC/Boston College game and lowered the average even further. You're welcome. As is usually the case, however, it wasn't a bad week for everyone. Andrew Schmidt from PTC, GA (we think that's Peachtree City, but we have an intern looking into the Cracker Abbreviation Guide) scored an impressive 86 points on an 11-4 record to take home Week 3 honors. Ryan Hamill from Oxford, MS finished as runner-up with 82 points, but on 13 wins. 13. Ryan missed his big one though, dropping 15 on the Hokies and lost 4 on the "Gurley Man" Bulldogs. Travis Washington from Shreveport, LA also scored 82, but finished behind Ryan with 11 victories.

David Shuler from Jacksonville knocked off a 72 point week which was good enough to spring him into the overall lead with 264 points. John Keyes from Pocatello, ID and Shawn Thomas from Tallahassee were in 2nd and 3rd place respectively with 260 points. Scott Biggs of Haughton, LA was 4th and Mike Seaman from West Jordan, UT was 5th with 3 weeks in the books.

The wreck that was Week 3 also jumbled group standings some with Southern Pickers at the top with an impressive average score of 220.33, followed by Jameis Winston has Crabs(legs). Gulf Coast Rumblers were in third while Hookem Horns was in 4th. Hopefully these groups have the rear view mirror in the right position, because multiple group champion The Spectacular Florida Dummies is lurking back in 5th place.

We're not offering much time to lick your wounds as Week 4 is up and ready for dissection. We have a lot of our favorite winners and losers from Week 3 up on the board, along with everyone's favorite intra-state match-up, New Mexico and New Mexico State. I'll probably have big points riding on that one!