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First Week CFCC Results Against-the-Spread

By: Boda (2026-09-11)

Our first stab at a new contest that adds an extra couple of layers to our regular confidence contests produced some interesting results (to say the least).  First, a big thank you to those that decided to give this a try. We thought making these picks against the spreads would be much more difficult, given that Johnny Vegas is mostly pulled out of the equation.  But then being asked to also add confidence numbers to your picks really adds to the degree of difficulty - especially with so little advance knowledge of who is playing for what team at the beginning of the year.  Oklahoma State, for example, had 91 new players on its roster for its game against Tulsa last week !  And then lost a game they were favored in. 

What happened was somewhat surprising and showed that the confidence factors matter a great deal in scoring.  Of the 57 players, two-thirds posted net positive scores, with the best record (11-3-1) coming from Kelly Sink, Debra Vaughn, and Trinna Patterson.  Overall points-wise, Andrew Kennedy came in with an incredible +67 points (out of 120 possible), followed closely by Kelly and Debra. Keeping up that success rate over time with confidence-weighted scoring is the real test - and we're interested to see how that goes. 

We don't have all the bells and whistles from the other contests in place yet, but that will happen with time.  Until then, we encourage any other interested dirty-dawgers to step in and give this a try with Week 2.  The Game Form is open until 11 am CDT Saturday. 

Hold on Just a Second ! Week 1 CFCC is in the Books and it's Against the Spread Too !

By: Boda (2026-09-08)

The most memorable part of Week 1 CFCC wasn't the football. It was the OMG conspiracy ! !