College Football Playoff - dirty-dawg 2014!!

by: Sugar (August 2, 2014)

It's hard to believe that football season is right around the corner, and that means it's time to gear up for another season of dirty-dawg.com! We have been mulling over numerous improvements to the dirty-dawg experience this summer and you will likely get what you have come to expect with the best football contests on the web! That's right, probably none of the ideas will be implemented. But for the first time since dirty-dawg's inaugural season in 1999 (and that year is NOT a typo) there will be changes to the College Football Confidence Contest (CFCC). That's because the BCS has been given walking papers in favor of a much long awaited and much overdue college football playoff. A selection committee will choose the 4 best college football teams at the end of the season to take part in a 3-game playoff. The winner of the playoff will be the official National College Football Champion. So, as good of news as that is, it will mean some scoring routine changes for the Bowl Blowout and we'll let you know how that is going to work, er, ah, as soon as we figure it out.

But that doesn't mean we can't going with dirty-dawg right now. CFCC Week 1 will begin Labor Day weekend with games on August 30. We will then play an additional 13 weeks before we pause for the bowl games and national playoff (15 weeks total once again this year). For the professional circuit, dirty-dawg.com's Pro Football Confidence Contest (PFCC) for 2014 will launch on September 7th, with the usual 17 weeks of games, followed by the playoffs (18 long, long, long weeks). So we start almost in the middle of summer and end in the dead of winter.

So, if you are a current member, now is the time to recruit some fresh meat for the 2014 beat-downs. You know, we don't advertise so all new players are strictly word of mouth and by recommendation. We like it that way. Keeps the riff-raff out. Everybody knows somebody(s) who think they know football and it's fun to describe how easy the contest works to them to build their confidence and then experience the satisfaction as you scroll further and further down the standings to find their name after Week 1! If it wasn't for the fresh meat, we wouldn't have those experiences. So, get after it and recruit your favorite sports know-it-alls for dirty-dawg.

It is also time to start building groups for the upcoming seasons. In 2013, two groups with many championships under their belts once again dominated group play at dirty-dawg.com. The Amazing Florida Dummies took home the CFCC crown, while Soggy Bottom Boys marched to another PFCC group championship. There has GOT to be a group of dirty-dawgers out there that can stop this madness!?!? Remember, to have an active group, you have to have at least 5 players. You then have approximately half of each season to finalize your groups before we head into the home stretch. You can create and join groups under the Main Menu drop-down above.

There you have it. The best time of the year is about to begin and we'll be working behind the scenes to get the rest of this low-budget operation working in time for CFCC Week 1. Expect that game form to be up on or before August 23. If you have any questions or complaints, just click on Contact Us on the menu bar above and we might get back with you.