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CFCC-ATS, An All-New Contest

By: Sugar (2026-09-01)

Here at dirty-dawg.com we don't necessarily stay on the bleeding-edge of sports contests, after founding the original online sports confidence contests in 1999!

That changed in April with our first CBCC16, Sweet 16 Redemption Contest and will continue this Thursday with the launch of our latest concept: College Football Confidence Contest - Against the Spread!

That's right! Part of our rallying cry has always been "...forget the spread, forget the fantasy..." but we know there are players out there that hate the fact that Johnny Vegas is so good in the classic CFCC, so we decided to remove him from this contest.

How will it work? Well, you will be offered up the same games as in the CFCC, but instead of picking the winner of the games straight-up, you will pick them against the spread. Which spread? That's a good question.

We all know point spreads move throughout the week and right up until the games start. For this contest, we will open the game form (usually) on Thursday mornings, which will give the lines time to cook most of the week and still allow time to demonstrate your brilliance before the game form closes at the same time the CFCC form does. The first player to open the game form (whenever that may happen after the form becomes active) will lock the odds number for each game for that entry and the remaining entries until the form closes. This will ensure that all players are picking the outcome of the games against the same line. Picking games against the spread is hard. What's harder is putting confidence factors of 1-15 on those games as well. That's the wrinkle. We didn't say this was going to be an easy contest!

So, those among you that like a real challenge, here is your opportunity to display your betting savvy, without risking any money. We will run this contest as a trial this season, without most of the bells and whistles you are accustomed to in the classic CFCC. Right now we just have the game form and standings wired up, but we will add the rest of the goodies if this concept proves out and the interest is there. We will even add a PFCC-ATS version for the real sadist dirty-dawgs out there!

Be ready to go on Thursday for the inaugural CFCC-ATS with a deadline of 11 AM CDT on Saturday, September 5!! This new contest is accessible from the Contests/College Football Menu. Until then, brush up on the rules unique to this offer and enjoy! 

CFCC Week 1 Game Form Live!

By: Sugar (2026-08-26)

CFCC 2026 is about to get real! But not until Labor Day Weekend. However, we did take mercy on everyone and launch the Week 1 game form early so if you can't wait to get some action on the board, you can all get to it! Remember, there are games this Saturday (August 29), but the CFCC doesn't get going until the games of Saturday, September 5. The Week 1 game form closes at 11 AM CDT on Saturday, September 5. And we can't wait to see all of your brilliant selections.

If you are new to dirty-dawg, the concept is pretty simple. We give you 15 games. You select a winner for each game and put a confidence value from 1 to 15 on each game, using each confidence factor once and only once. Put your 15 on the game that you know can't go wrong. Put your 1 on the game you are most worried about getting the winning team correct. Then kick back and enjoy the games. Or not, depending on how your selections go.

This week's blue ribbon for new player recruitment goes to Becca Darish, commish for the CFCC group, "GEN ZFP". The far majority of new players so far this pre-season have signed-up and then hopped on the GEN ZFP bus where Becca has loaded up 13 players so far in her group. We could use that same kind of leadership and motivation from the rest of you! Thanks, Becca!!

And speaking of groups, as of this writing we are up to 23 CFCC groups and 9 PFCC groups. Those numbers typically multiply rapidly as we approach the Week 1 deadlines, but remember groups can be created, populated and have players unceremoniously removed until about halfway through the contests. 

When it comes to group names, we can always count on some clever entries into the field, but Jon Zeitler usually leads the way. He hasn't disappointed this year coming in with NIL Chance of Winning in CFCC play and Tony's Barefoot OWIes in the PFCC. You can read the group descriptions for context. And if you want to find out how a bunch of Floridians ended up in a football contest dominated by NWS meteorologists, just see Will Moseley's Florida Dummies Legacy group description. 

For those of you waiting on the PFCC Week 1 game form, we will also have that posted sometime next week (week of August 30), which will also allow for 10 days or so to get those brilliant, always-so-easy, Week 1 PFCC game selections in the hopper. Until then, you all know the drill. Let's hit the recruitment trail and get those groups in place before the action starts for real!