r/CFBDeepcuts • u/CFBDeepcuts • Sep 14 '26
🏈 CFB Deep Cuts — Week 2 Recap
Week 2 is officially in the books, and once again the leaderboard came down to finding the right answers without following the crowd, as it should ;)
📊 Week 2 by the Numbers
- 24 players
- 24 completed entries — 100% completion
- 120 total answers submitted
- Average score: 26.13
- Median score: 25.5
- Winning score: 15
- Highest score: 39
As always, lower scores are better. A correct answer is good. A correct answer that almost nobody else finds is even better.
🏆 Week 2 Top 5
- Bernbp5 — 15
- JStay — 17
- Host — 18
- Flavojako — 19
- GarbageMan22 — 19
Another tight finish: only four points separated first from fifth.
And here's the fun part: nobody went 4-for-5 or 5-for-5 this week.
Bernbp5, JStay, Host, and TheJoshster led the field at 3-for-5, proving again that this game isn't just about getting the most questions right. It's about which correct answers you find.
🎯 Question-by-Question
Q1 — Pass for at least 250 yards
12 of 24 players got it right.
Darian Mensah was the most popular successful pick with 3 selections, while Braden Atkinson, Devon Dampier, Jayden Maiava, Lincoln Kienholz, and Sam Leavitt were each found by just one player.
And there were another 32 correct answers nobody picked.
Q2 — Finish among the 20 lowest-scoring games
This was the friendliest question of the week: 14 of 24 correct (58.3%).
Iowa State at Iowa led the way with 4 selections. Four players went deeper with one-off correct picks: Eastern Michigan at Michigan State, Georgia Southern at Clemson, Montana State at Nevada, and Ohio State at Texas.
Q3 — Rush for at least 100 yards
This one was brutal.
Just 4 of 24 players got it right, and all four found a different answer:
Abu Sama III, Cam Edwards, Jabari Bates, and Lee Beebe Jr.
That's Deep Cuts football right there.
Q4 — At least 7 receptions
Only 7 of 24 were correct.
Easton Messer and Kelby Valsin were each selected twice, while Gavin Freeman, KJ Duff, and Tony Diaz were one-off correct picks.
Q5 — Score at least 21 points and lose
The week's toughest question: just 3 of 24 correct (12.5%).
And all three were unique:
Jacksonville State — TheJoshster
Kansas — gbp_3200
Texas State — Chasetheswede
Meanwhile, UCF was the week's most popular incorrect answer, taking down three entries on this question.
🔦 The Deepest Cuts
Across all five questions, players produced 19 correct answers that were selected exactly once.
Even crazier: there were 142 correct answers that nobody selected at all.
The official Deep Cut streak mechanic is still building its early-season history, so there wasn't an official overlooked Deep Cut award this week—but we're already starting to see just how much unexplored territory is sitting in these answer pools.
👑 How Bernbp5 Won Week 2
Bernbp5 finished 3-for-5 with a score of 15.
The signature pick was KJ Duff on the 7+ receptions question—a correct answer nobody else selected.
That's a pretty good illustration of the whole game: you don't need to be perfect. You need to be correct and different.
Congrats to Bernbp5 on the Week 2 win, and thanks to all 24 players who got their entries in.
On to Week 3. 🏈
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u/Exciting_Menu_3921 Sep 15 '26
It's a good format and it works really well. It captures the fun of Reverse Sheep in a better, more user-friendly way. Hoping that it can get a lot more players!