Week 7 CFCC Wrap: One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...

by: Sugar (October 12)

The great thing about picking college football games is sometimes you're right, and sometimes you're wrong. What am I right about? I'm right about your school, no matter where it is, and no matter what its history is, can have a winning program. Don't accept those worn out excuses about "you can't get players to come to BFI to play", "coaches get the most out of the players they can get", or any similar garbage used to placate die-hard college football fans hoping one day their alma mater might develop a program to be envied, even if just for a little while. Exhibits one and two, Mississippi and Mississippi State. Although I'm sure nothing could be farther from the truth, for an outsider they look like remarkably similar schools. Both have student bodies around 20,000 and both are located in cities with populations around 20-25,000 people. And until this year, both have had rather forgettable football programs. Sure they have been good from time to time, but not like this year. Despite both of their records and level of play so far this year, the dirty-dawg consensus was that both of these teams would lay an egg this past weekend. And they didn't. And now they are both at or near the top of the rankings. Perfect examples for those that are willing to settle for less from their favorite college team. It can be done. Anywhere.

And what I am wrong about (among many other things) is that I never thought "icing" a kicker was really that effective. Until Saturday night when USC was successful. Twice. Arizona looked like it was going to send USC to another last play loss when Sarkisian called a time-out right before the Arizona kicker successfully "won" the game with a kick right down the middle. Except he didn't and the only thing worse than the kick that counted was the kicker's acting job trying to draw a "roughing the kicker" penalty, once he knew he screwed the pooch. It was another exciting end to another great weekend of college football. Other excitement was high pucker factors on Baylor and West Virginia, which both had furious rallys to come back and win as favorites and keeping most dirty-dawgers from suffering another super low-scoring weekend.

The average score for Week 7 was 51 points, but Trevor Boucher from Nashville, TN smoked the field with 108 point on 14 victories, missing only Duke's upset of Georgia Tech. Kurt Van Spreybroeck from Forth Worth, TX also had 108 points but missed with the Aggies in addition to the Ramblin' Wreck. Albert Greenhut, Penny Zabel and B.F. Ellis round out the Top 5 Dawgs for Week 7.

Michael Boyer is our new leader at the half-way mark for the 2014 CFCC. Michael is from West Hills, CA and has amassed a total of 422 points, and leads 2nd place Hank Bauer of Spanish Fort, AL and Pete Fickensher from Sacramento, CA by 4 points. Matt Entremont is in 4th place on the overall board along with Kyle Newman who holds down 5th place wth 416 points.

Hook 'Em Horns continues to lead in Group Play with an average score of 372.67 points. Florida Dummies are in 2nd place, while Gulf Coast Ramblers were in 3rd. Remember that Group Play will close with the dead line of the PFCC this week. You can acquire new members through the usual process, or drop us an email to jettison the dead weight. Otherwise, Week 8 CFCC is up and ready to go. Good luck with he 2nd half of CFCC 2014!