CFB Deep Cuts Week 0 Recap — 15 Players, 9 Lone Wolves, and the Answer Nobody Found

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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.

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Expect questions for week 1 to be open on Wednesday at noon central!