Week 1 of the CFB Deep Cuts Beta season is here!

After a very fun first week, we're back for the first full week of the college football season.

Week 0 had 15 players, 75 submitted answers, 9 Lone Wolves, and one question where all 15 of us completely missed the only correct answer.

Congratulations again to gbp_3200, who won Week 0 with a score of just 7 points.

Now it's time to see what Week 1 has for us.

How to Play

The goal is simple:

Be right. Be unpopular. Lowest score wins.

You'll get five college football questions. For each one, you're trying to choose a correct answer that as few of the other players as possible will choose.

Find a correct answer nobody else picks and you've found a Lone Wolf worth just 1 point.

Pick the obvious answer along with everybody else? It might be correct, but you're taking all of them with you.

🏈 Come Play Week 1

If you played Week 0, thank you for being part of the first-ever CFB Deep Cuts field. Let's do it again.

If you didn't play Week 0, this is a great time to jump in.

2026 is the inaugural CFB Deep Cuts Beta season, and I'm trying to get as many people playing as I can. The bigger the field gets, the more interesting the strategy gets — and I need actual players helping me figure out what works, what's confusing, what breaks, and what could make the game better.

Week 1 is ready to play here:

https://cfbdeepcuts.replit.app

Sign in, head to Participant Mode → Play, open the active Week 1 contest, make one selection for each of the five questions, and hit Submit Answers.

Enjoying Deep Cuts? Help Support the Game!

I'm building and running CFB Deep Cuts as a passion project, and I'm hoping to keep improving it throughout the season and beyond.

If you're enjoying the game and want to help support CFB Deep Cuts, there are two ways you can contribute:

☕ Ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/cfbdeepcuts

🏈 GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/b95bae0f3

Support is completely optional and has no impact whatsoever on gameplay. Playing every week, giving feedback, telling other college football fans about the game, and helping grow the community are already huge ways to support Deep Cuts.

Questions, strategy talk, bugs, complaints, suggestions, and general college-football sicko behavior are all welcome in this thread.

And please don't post your picks while everyone else is still trying to find theirs. 👀

Thanks again to everyone helping me Beta-test this thing.

Let's make the Week 1 field bigger than Week 0.

Good luck.

Be right. Be unpopular. Find those Deep Cuts.

The first week of CFB Deep Cuts is officially in the books!

First off, a huge thank you to the 15 people who jumped into Week 0 and became the first real players of the CFB Deep Cuts Beta.

All 15 of you completed all five questions, which gave us 75 answers to score — and we already got some wonderfully weird results out of them.

🏆 Your Week 0 Winner: gbp_3200

Congratulations to gbp_3200, who takes the first-ever CFB Deep Cuts weekly win with a score of just 7 points!

Remember: lower is better.

gbp_3200 went 4-for-5, found two Lone Wolves, and also earned the Week 0 qualification spot.

The Week 0 Top 5:

gbp_3200 — 7

Salami — 10

CFBDC — 11

benny_t — 11

j0mb00 — 13

Nobody managed to go 5-for-5.

And there's a pretty funny reason why.

🐸 The Answer Nobody Found

Q4 asked everyone to pick a player who would rush for 125+ yards.

Fifteen players took their shots.

We collectively guessed 12 different players.

And every single one of us was wrong.

There was exactly one eligible correct answer:

TCU RB Jeremy Payne — 142 rushing yards.

Nobody picked him.

Here's where one of the weird parts of Deep Cuts scoring kicked in: because nobody submitted a correct answer, everyone received 0 points for the question.

So the entire field completely whiffed...and nobody got hurt by it. We will call this a bad question for week 0.

Apparently the deepest possible cut is one that none of us can find.

🐺 Nine Lone Wolves!

Week 0 also produced 9 Lone Wolves across 7 different players.

A Lone Wolf is a correct answer that exactly one person submitted, which means it scores just 1 point.

Salami and gbp_3200 each managed to find two.

And Q2 — picking a player to throw for 125+ yards — was absolute Lone Wolf territory. We submitted 11 different answers among 15 players, and four different correct answers ended up as Lone Wolves.

That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping would happen with this game.

The goal isn't just figuring out what's going to happen on Saturday.

It's figuring out what's going to happen that everyone else overlooks.

😬 And Then There Were the Traps...

Q3 was brutal.

The question was to pick a player who would throw 2+ touchdown passes, and only 4 of 15 players got it right.

Ashton Daniels looked appealing enough to draw five picks.

He missed.

Meanwhile, Luke Weaver hit the mark — and gbp_3200 was the only person who found him, making Weaver another Lone Wolf.

Q1 created another huge swing. 13 of 15 players picked a winner correctly, but Florida State was the obvious choice with six picks.

Finding a less popular winner could save you several points.

Missing entirely?

That cost 11.

Welcome to Deep Cuts.

🏈 On to Week 1 -

Seriously, thank you to the original 15 Beta players. If you enjoyed playing consider supporting the app so more improvements can be made and supported!

Seeing an actual group of people play something I've spent so much time building and then finally getting to see the strategy and weird scoring situations play out with real picks was incredibly fun.

Now I want to make the field bigger.

If you missed Week 0, come join us for Week 1!

2026 is still the CFB Deep Cuts Beta season, and I'm looking for as many people as possible who want to play throughout the season and help me make the game better.

If something is confusing, something breaks, you have an idea, or you just want to talk strategy, please post here in r/CFBDeepCuts. I genuinely want the feedback.

The more people we get playing, the more interesting the strategy gets.

Thanks again to our first 15.

And congratulations to gbp_3200, the first weekly winner in CFB Deep Cuts history.

Week 1 is next. Find the answers nobody else will.

Week 0 is OPEN!

This is the first official contest of the inaugural 2026 CFB Deep Cuts Beta season.

Play Week 0 here

Use this thread for anything related to this week's contest game discussion, questions, feedback, something that confused you, or anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly.

Since this is the Beta, I especially want to hear about your experience playing. Don't worry about whether something is "important enough" to mention. If you noticed it, I'd rather hear about it.

And once you've submitted your answers, feel free to hang out and talk about the games just don't give away your picks while the contest is still open!

Good luck!

Be right. Be unpopular. Find those Deep Cuts.

New to CFB Deep Cuts? Here's How a Week Works

If you're new to CFB Deep Cuts, here's the basic rhythm of the game during the 2026 Beta season.

The goal is for CFB Deep Cuts to become part of your normal college football week: questions come out, make your picks, watch the games, check your results, and do it all again next week.

🗓 Wednesday — New Contest Opens

New weekly questions are scheduled to open Wednesday at 12:00 PM Central.

Once the contest is open:

1. Sign in to CFB Deep Cuts.
2. Go to Play.
3. Your current week will appear as the Active Contest.
4. Answer all five questions.
5. Hit Submit Answers.

You need to answer all five questions before your submission will be accepted.

Once it goes through, you'll see:

“Your answers were submitted.”

🏈 Before & During the Games — Make Your Picks

You can submit your answers any time after the contest opens and before the applicable submission deadlines.

The intended weekly format is for deadlines to follow the games themselves rather than having the entire contest close at the first kickoff.

📺 Thursday–Monday — Watch Some Football

Now comes the fun part.

Watch the games and see whether your picks hit!

Remember, simply being correct isn't enough in CFB Deep Cuts.

You want to be right and unpopular.

🧮 After the Games — Scoring

During the 2026 Beta, scoring is currently handled after the necessary games and results are in.

The Commissioner will initiate scoring, review the week's results, and finalize the contest.

That means results may not appear immediately after the last game ends.

Especially during the Beta, please give me a little time to make sure everything is scored correctly.

📊 Results

Once the week has been scored and finalized, you'll be able to see your results in CFB Deep Cuts.

We're going to learn more about the exact results experience as we complete the first few weeks of the Beta.

🔁 Then We Do It Again

The next contest is scheduled to open the following Wednesday at noon Central, and we start all over again:

New questions → Submit your answers → Watch football → Get scored → See how you did → Repeat.

That's the weekly rhythm of CFB Deep Cuts.

Be right. Be unpopular. Find those Deep Cuts.

Welcome to CFB Deep Cuts Come Play the 2026 Beta Season!

Welcome to CFB Deep Cuts!

CFB Deep Cuts is a weekly college football strategy game built around a simple idea:

Be right. Be unpopular. Lowest score wins.

Each week, you'll answer five questions about college football. If your answer is correct, your score is based on how many other players chose the same answer, so finding the obvious correct answer isn't necessarily good enough.

You're looking for the correct answer that everyone else overlooks.

2026 is the inaugural CFB Deep Cuts Beta season.

We're playing a real season, but the app itself is still actively being built and improved. Some of the tools behind the scenes are still developing, the variety of questions may grow as the season goes on, and I'm sure we'll find some rough edges once more people start playing.

That's a big part of why I'm doing a Beta season with an actual community of players. I want to learn from people actually playing the game and make CFB Deep Cuts better as the season goes on.

If something is confusing, something doesn't seem to work correctly, or you have an idea for how the game could be better, I genuinely want to hear about it.

I'll create a post here for each week's contest. Please use that week's post for questions, discussion, and feedback about that week's game.

Most importantly, though: have fun playing the game.

🏈 Play CFB Deep Cuts here!

Good luck. Find those Deep Cuts.