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.

Perfect weeks for everyone

Week 13 Spreads

With Thankgsgiving Day games starting early in the day, Week 13 spreads have been posted and picks can be made. We also remind players that this is the week when any five games on the schedule can be picked and there is no requirement to pick at least two college and two pro games. Everyone please have a happy and safe Thanksgiving, and good luck this weekend.

Well, not really.

But the pool nearly matched it's all-time record for a single week when 42 perfect weeks were handed out with a total of $2,310 spilling from the pot. The record is 45 in Week 10 of the 2012 season when there were 356 players in the pool.

The longest streak to come to an end was 105 weeks by Ron Powell who got his first career perfect week in his sixth year in the pool.

Not scoring one of the 42 perfectos was Mike Feder, who was 4-for-5 for the third time this season and extended his historic streak to 193 weeks without a perfect week.

Fifteen players got their second perfect week of he year.

With the raiding of the pot, the projection for the first place prize has dropped below $5,000 for the first time. There are still seven weeks left to build it back up.

Freedom of choice

This is the first week that players can pick any five games in the point spreads. The requirement to pick at least to college and two NFL games is off for the rest of the season.

Important reminder: Because all college and pro teams now appear in every drop down menu, remember that college teams go by the school name and NFL teams go the by mascot. So if you pick Arizona, make sure it was the Wildcats you wanted and not the Cardinals. There are nine college teams that share the same name as NFL franchises, Arizona, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Houston, Miami, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Tennessee and Washington.

A post by Founding Father Thomas Heleba on the Pigskin Mania Facebook page prompted us to look into who might benefit the most from the being able to pick from a preferred category of NCAA or NFL.

Below is the list of the five players with the greatest disparity in winning percentage between NCAA and NFL games. The chart shows each player's season winning percentage in the two categories and the difference.

This and that

• The top of the standings bunched up with a three-way tie for first place. Only five point separate the top 10 spots in the standings.

• There's a new Asshander in town and it belongs to the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Fresh off an appearance in the Pigskin Special, Texas Tech went into the black hole as the current Asshander of the Year in a 66-10 loss to Iowa St. as a 3.5-point favorite. The -59.5 differential is only 3.5 points short of the All-Time Asshander held by Wisconsin.

• This week's Pigskin Special was an easy choice with Michigan and Ohio St., two teams currently in the hunt for a College Football Playoff berth, facing off in Columbus. Kickoff is 10 a.m. MST (noon, EST) so get your picks in early if you plan to get in on one of the biggest games of the college football season.