The Top 100 and ties will collect season prize money. The list will be updated weekly in this column. Full standings can be found at the Standings link.

Let the countdown begin

Now that countdown to the last broadcast for Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vin Scully is over, we can move on to the next biggest countdown in the history of sports.

The magic number is 5 for Mike Feder to break the all-time Pigskin Mania record for consecutive weeks without a perfect week. He reached 186 weeks this week, and is chasing the late Rita Fisher who got to 190 weeks before she passed away after the 2009 season.

Feder has had one close call this year, going 4-for-5 in Week 1. But the streak lives.

For perspective, here are a few facts about the streak and what was going on the last time Feder got a perfect week on Oct. 1, 2006:

• It was the season when underdog Florida crushed Ohio St. in the BCS National Championship played in Arizona.

• Peyton Manning, now retired, was on his way to the first of two Super Bowl championships, this one when the Colts defeated the Bears whose quarterback was a guy named Rex Grossman.

• Feder's streak is two years longer than Tiger Woods' winless streak in the majors.

• Tennis star Roger Federer had won less than half of the 17 major titles he now owns.

• It was the year Barry Bonds passed Babe Ruth on the all-time major league home run list.

• Justin Timberlake now a veteran musician and actor scored his first No. 1 hit as a solo artist that week with Sexyback.

• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced they were expecting  their first biological child.

We'll be keeping a careful eye with each passing week.

Saved by Cowboys and Broncos

Week 5 was headed into the dumper when one heavy pool favorite after another took it in the shorts on Sunday.

The pool was already reeling from a dismal .381 winning percentage in college games. After the early NFL games, the winning percentage was just .300 and a meltdown of epic proportions was building.

But the heavy NFL bandwagon pick of the Broncos came through with 227 winners and just 11 losers taking the Bucs. And then the Cowboys stepped up with 116 winning picks against only 17 losers on the 49ers. The NFL winning percentage ended up at a respectable .497.

But with the low numbers in college games, there were only 10 perfect weeks, which boosted the current projected first-place prize to $5,726.

This and that

• Seven of the top eight Bandwagon picks were losers with only Wisconsin putting one in the win column. The previous week's hero, Stanford, was the NCAA Bandwagon pick for the second week in a row and was manhandled this time by Washington.

• This week's "bad beat" came when Pitt forced a push on an interception return for a touchdown on the last play of the game with Marshall. There were only nine players on the game, but they couldn't be happy with that.

• Things that suck I: When your team that is giving up 3.5 points goes ahead by 3 on the last play of the game and they don't get to kick the extra point to cover. That was what happened when Tennessee won its game with Georgia on a Hail Mary pass to end the game.

• Things that suck II: When your team is giving up 35.5 points and they cruise to a win, but they never get to the needed point total, scoring only 34. Alabama was the culprit in a 34-6 victory over Kentucky.