CFFL 2025 Playoff Rankings
1. z-Deep Snappers (10-4); beat MSG, SOL
2. y-Multiple Scoregasms (10-4); beat SOL
3. y-Sons Of Liberty (10-4)
4. x-Season 27 Champs (9-5); 1-1 vs Guns, 3-3 division, outscored Guns by 35
5. x-Big Guns (9-5)
6. x-Maulers (6-8); beat Yankees
7. x-The Dirty Yankees (6-8)
8. x-Freedom Factory (5-9); 2-0 vs Mayhem; 2-0 vs. Swerve/Weasels
We had a four-way tie for the last playoff spot which was won by Factory by virtue of going 4-0 vs. the other 5-9 teams.
Gator Bowl Rankings
9. e-DoubleSwerve (5-9); beat Weasels, Mayhem
10. e-Weasels (5-9); beat Mayhem
11. e-Electric Mayhem (5-9)
12. e-Damn The Torpedoes (4-10)
Playoff Matchups
#1 Deep Snappers vs. #8 Freedom Factory
Power Rankings: Snappers #1 (tie), Factory #8
Previous result: Snappers def. Factory 121-84.5 in week 6
#2 Multiple Scoregasms vs. #7 The Dirty Yankees
Power Rankings: MSG #1 (tie), Yankees #4 (tie)
Previous result: Yankees def. MSG 108-71 in week 1 and 124-84.5 in week 12
#3 Sons of Liberty vs. #6 Maulers
Power Rankings: SOL #3, Maulers #9
Previous result: Maulers def. SOL 109.5-83.5 in week 2; SOL def. Maulers 108.5-54.5 in week 13
#4 Season 27 Champs vs. #5 Big Guns
Power Rankings: Chumps #7, Guns #4 (tie)
Previous results: Guns def. Chumps 110.5-83.5 in week 1; Chumps def. Guns 114.5-77.5 in week 12
Gator Bowl Matchups
#1 Damn The Torpedoes vs. #4 DoubleSwerve
Power Rankings: Torpedoes #11, Swerve #12
Previous result: Torpedoes def. Swerve 124.5-91.5 in week 7
#2 Electric Mayhem vs. #3 Weasels
Power Rankings: Mayhem #6, Weasels #10
Previous result: Weasels def. Mayhem 93-90.5 in week 9
The higher seed in all postseason games receives a 3.75 point bonus for home field advantage.
Maulers 135.5, Weasels 70.5: Maulers better hope this team shows up against SOL instead of last week’s.
SOL 125, Torpedoes 84.5: The two highest scorers of week 14 will face off in week 15.
MSG 111.5, Mayhem 103.5: Mayhem finally made a correct lineup decision in starting two Rams RBs but were undone by their superstar Cojones/Chase/Rice combo only scoring 15 points total.
Chumps 101.5, Swerve 85: Chumps may very well become the first CFFL team to be carried to a championship by a kicker.
Yankees 93.5, Factory 65.5: Yanks got double-digit scoring from seven players to vault from #11 to #7.
Guns 88, Snappers 81.5: Was Snappers stumble a one-off or a portent of things to come?
Ruminations and Cogitations (Comin’ To You On A Dusty Road edition)
This R&C is coming to you from CFFL Auxiliary HQ (aka my parents’ house in Frisco). As much as I would like to kick back with a belly full of my mom’s meatloaf and watch the Stars game, I have an R&C to write dammit. But it’s going to be a light one.
The final weekly awards go to Mayhem for a Hard Luck 103.5 and Guns for a Dumb Luck 88.
Final award tallies:
- Hard Luck: Torpedoes (2), Snappers (2), Mayhem (2), Chumps, Guns, Factory, Maulers, SOL, MSG, Yankees
- Dumb Luck: Guns (3), Swerve (3), Chumps (2), Weasels (2), Mayhem, MSG, SOL
- Bench Mob: Yankees, Guns, Swerve, Maulers
- All In: Weasels
- Bad Beat: Weasels (2), Maulers, Mayhem, Yankees
Team of the Week
| QB | Josh Allen | Guns | 37 |
| RB | Jahmyr Gibbs | MSG | 30 |
| RB | Tony Pollard | Swerve | 28 |
| WR | Puka Nacua | Maulers | 28 |
| WR | Michael Wilson | Chumps | 26 |
| TE | Harold Fannin Jr. | SOL | 21 |
| WR/TE | Jaxon Smith-Njigba/Tee Higgins | Snappers/SOL | 21 |
| PK | Brandon Aubrey | Chumps | 24 |
| DST | Seahawks | MSG | 25 |
| Total | 240 |
I think all of us at one point or another this year asked ourselves “Why do I do this?”
Here’s your answer:
| Draft fees | $900 |
| Transaction fees | $808 |
| Total | $1708 |
| Champion | $729 |
| Runner-up | $402 |
| Semi-finalist | $201 |
| Semi-finalist | $201 |
| #1 seed (Snappers) | $100 |
| Gator Bowl | $75 |
We’re already at our sixth-highest total ever for transaction fees and are well ahead of last year’s pace which ended as the fifth-highest at $845. The record was $932 in 2021 but I’m confident we can beat that if we put our backs into it. LFG!
Top 5 Plays of the Week
5. Tyler Shough did this twice to the Buccaneers FUGAZI defense
4. The Packers’ Keisean Nixon picked off Caleb Williams to ice the Bears
3. There was an extremely rare Tony Pollard sighting
2. The Chargers had the second-best tip drill pick of the year, but it was definitely the most satisfying
- Christian Benford made an amazing pick 6 off Joe Burrow to give the Bills the lead for good
Week 14 Overreactions
- Even though the Bears lost on a dumb-ass Caleb Williams pick, they showed me something. They played the Packers tough in Lambeau in December and had a chance to win it at the end. You always hear that Packers/Bears is the “greatest” NFL rivalry but this is the first time I can remember that both teams are good. I hope that this Bears’ resurgence lasts a couple years (see: Lions) and isn’t a one-year wonder (see: Commanders).
- Did I mention that Tampa Bay is FUGAZI? Because they’re FUGAZI. No one who loses to this Saints team at home is even remotely serious.
- Shedeur Sanders may turn out to be a decent NFL QB after all. And if that’s the case, Kevin Stefanski should be fired for cause. Throwing Dillon Gabriel out there repeatedly over Sanders was coaching malpractice.
- Commish’s MVP rankings
- Josh Allen
- Matthew Stafford
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba
- Drake Maye
Yes Maye fell because he was on a bye. Sue me.
- I never thought I’d see the day when college football had an easy opportunity to put Notre Dame in a playoff but didn’t. I also thought they’d never put SMU in but they did last year, so I don’t know what the hell is going on. Question: Does Notre Dame have a legit beef? Certainly. Follow up question: Do I give a f*ck? I do not. There’s few things more viscerally satisfying then a bunch of entitled fans not getting what they want (see also: Manchester United).
Non-NFL Play of the Week
Florida State freshman goalkeeper Kate Ockene had an incredible nine saves in the NCAA national championship game, including this beauty:
Congrats to the FSU women on winning their 3rd natty in five years, or as Famous Jameis said:
Hoch watch: I took delight in the thought that the Hochster had been forever banished to shit games, but I was wrong. He wreaked havoc on Cowboys/Lions last week, and this week he gets Chargers @ Chiefs. I hope he freezes his ass off.
The Commish Track is Soul Man by Sam & Dave. I didn’t intend for this to become a memorial space but these motherf—–s keep dying.
Steve Cropper was the lead guitarist for Booker T and the MG’s, who were the house band for Stax Records in its heyday. That’s him playing his classic Soul Man lick in the above video. He also co-wrote hits like Green Onions, In The Midnight Hour, Knock On Wood, Mr. Pitiful, and Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay, and was a founding member of the Blues Brothers Band. In other words, the man was a GD legend. RIP.
Trivia question: Name the only NFL player with an interception, a tackle for loss, a sack and a blocked FG in 2025. Hint: he did it all in week 14.1
RIP also to Tom Hicks. As lousy an owner as he was for the Rangers and for Liverpool FC, he was a great owner for the Dallas Stars. He wisely understood that he didn’t know shit about hockey but he gave the people who did an open checkbook and got out of their way. Without Hicks the Stars wouldn’t have won a Stanley Cup, and for that he gets a super sky point from the Commish.
BTW I Googled “super sky point” and these are the first images that came up:
The Nepo Babe of the Week is Emma Roberts, who looks a hell of a lot better than her dad Eric Roberts.
And with that the playoffs are nigh upon us. Week 15 is the big week where the playoff winners are guaranteed of finishing in the money and the losers will pay up. Let the carnage begin!
We’ll end on this one from Micky P Kerr: “Apparently smoking cannabis can affect your short term memory. Well if that’s true, what do you think smoking cannabis does?”
Good luck to everyone in the playoffs, and may the best team win.
The Commish
- Seahawks rookie Nick Emmanwori ↩︎
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