CFCC: Week 5

by: exRegionalWeenie (9/29/25)

It kills me to admit it, but Penn State just cannot get it done against top opponents. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know they won their first-ever NCAA College Football Playoff game last year by crushing SMU. And yes, I know they rolled over then-No. 3 Boise State in the semifinals, but that was just Boise State, right? Then with the whole college football world watching the first-ever College Football Playoff semifinal, Coach James Franklin and the Nittany Lions just could get the job done against Notre Dame.

Now, flash forward to last week. It's a new year and a new chance for highly ranked PSU to be the real deal. The table was perfectly set as PSU held a whiteout at home against No. 6 Oregon. Sure enough, Franklin and the Lions came up short. Again. In fact, it was really short for part of the fourth quarter but then PSU forced the game into OT and then double OT before they came up short once again. Oh well, maybe someday, just not this day.

That's enough about real football. You came here to see your name mentioned by the famous Dirty Dawg writers, right? Well here ya go:

Week 5 CFCC Top Dawgs

Congrats to Week 5 CFCC winner Ian McNeil! He correctly called the mini-upsets by Oregon and Alabama plus 11 other games enroute to a 108-point week and 13-2 record. Nice work, Ian! We also want to give shoutouts to Peyton Gillespie and Mike Zwier for tying for 2nd place in Week 5 at 100 points each. Mike earned a bronze bone in '15 and a silver bone in '20. If that pattern holds, mark him down for a gold in '25! Next we have Benjamin Schott and Philip McCarthy in a tie for 4th place although Ben gets the edge because he won 12 games to Phillip's 11.

Four players were tied for 6th place in Week 5. They were (and still are) Harold Dippman, Brandon Black, Robert Nystrom and Carl Lindecrantz, each with a strong 96 points. And surprise, we had yet another tie, this time a four way tie for 10th place between Mike Coyne, Nicolas Porcelli, Brian Heath and Todd Lericos. Hmmm, Mike and Todd, a couple leaders from the DFW area. I think we need some transparency of what those two are up to (IYKYK). Just kidding, guys, just kidding!

Year-to-date CFCC Standings after Week 5

Jeremy Buckles didn't win Week 5 but he said, "Who cares? I'm still in 1st place." Indeed his is. In fact, Jeremy added 10 points to his grip on 1st place by beating 2nd place's Derrick Snyder in Week 5 by - you guessed it - 10 points. Lericos rode his Week 5 success to vault 20 places in the standings and tie Derrick for 2nd place. Tom Fannin had a strong week and moved from 10th place into 4th. Speaking of upward moves, check out McNeil's move. His Week 5 victory propelled him an incredible 119 places all the way up to 5th place. Now that's getting the job done!

The rest of the year-to-date Top 10 consists entirely of dirty-dawg veterans including 2006 winner Derek Eisentrout along with Jason B. Wright, Brian Hoeth, Tyler Castillo and Eric Holweg.

Florida Dummies Ascend to the top of the PFCC Group Play Standings

I hope you read last week's article and learned about the touching story behind The Florida Dummies - Legacy. Fittingly, they rose into 1st place in the latest group standings. Good luck, folks - we hope you stay in 1st the rest of this season! The Dummies dislodged The Border War Still Lives in KC from 1st place by just 3.60 points. WEST COAST WALK OFF holds 3rd place in the group standings.