Week 3 Matchup Recaps
2026 · week 3. Numbers here are still provisional and can move with stat corrections, but nobody's waiting around to print this. Week 3 gave us two teams that blew leads of 5.0 and 8.37, and then — because the universe has a sense of humor — a third team that coughed up a 30.65-point lead in the same afternoon, the widest collapse of the week. Meanwhile the league's best score (181.56) and its worst score (87.63) happened in the exact same game, and at least two coaches left enough points on the bench to swing their own outcomes. Buckle up.
Week High Meets Week Low in the Same Building
Too Great A Burden To Bear 87.63 — Hugh G Rexxion 181.56
ESPN projected Too Great A Burden To Bear to beat Hugh G Rexxion by 5.76, a 130.1-124.4 call — instead Hugh G Rexxion put up the week's best score, 181.56, and had it half-built before the weekend — 62.3 on Thursday night alone, then 57.36 in the Sunday early games and 38.1 late. Too Great A Burden To Bear never got going: 6.85 Thursday, 25.0 early, 42.78 late, and the week's low score for its trouble. The final was 181.56-87.63, a 93.93-point blowout — the largest margin possible between a week high and a week low happening in the same game. Conner Mitchell's Hugh G Rexxion moves to 3-0, while Andrew Sharpe's Too Great A Burden To Bear falls to 0-3. The all-time series still sits 10-5 in Too Great A Burden To Bear's favor, for whatever comfort that's worth this week.
Clankers Demolish the Projection and K-9 UNIT Both
Clankers With a Hard R 170.90 — K-9 UNIT 108.95
ESPN had K-9 UNIT favored by 18.73, projecting a 141.0-122.3 win — instead Clankers With a Hard R banked 23.85 on Thursday night, 65.99 in the Sunday early games and 69.76 late, in front at every checkpoint from Thursday on, for a final 170.9-108.95, a 61.95-point demolition and one of the widest projection reversals of the young season. Will Mason's Clankers move to 2-1 while Pierce Freeman's K-9 UNIT falls to 2-1 as well after this one. The all-time series between these two managers remains tied at 5-5 — for now.
Diggs Spears Bass Opens the Series 1-0 With a 46.58-Point Statement
Skeeze Machines 91.86 — Diggs Spears Bass 138.44
Skeeze Machines never built anything — 2.9 on Thursday night, 24.81 in the Sunday early games, 56.25 late — while Diggs Spears Bass dropped 118.49 in the Sunday early window alone and cruised to a 138.44-91.86 win, a 46.58-point margin. This was the first-ever meeting between these two franchises, and Jason Moyer's Diggs Spears Bass takes the opening game of the all-time series 1-0. The win pushes Diggs Spears Bass to 3-0 on the season, still unbeaten through three weeks, while Cory Hyatt's Skeeze Machines falls to 1-2 and has now been on the wrong end of the league's two largest margins this season.
ThatH0nkyTonk Erases a 5-Point Hole, Buries Tiddy Boy's Own Bench Along the Way
Tiddy Boy LaCroix 111.37 — ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk 132.85
ESPN projected Tiddy Boy LaCroix to beat ThatH0nkyTonk McConkeyD0nk by 3.17, and Tiddy Boy did lead by 5.0 entering the Sunday early games — 0.0 to ThatH0nkyTonk's -5.0, a lead made entirely of the other guy being underwater. Then it came apart: ThatH0nkyTonk outscored Tiddy Boy 137.85-111.37 from there, 96.65 of it in the Sunday late games, closing it out 132.85-111.37 for a 21.48-point win. But the real story is what Logan Gamer left on his own bench — 42.86 points, with an optimal lineup of 154.23 that wins this game outright. Sam Darnold's 35.16 sat there the whole time behind a Baker Mayfield who scored zero, and RJ Harvey (10.95) and Quentin Johnston (7.5) never got a look either. Bryan Provenzano's own card wasn't spotless — 29.01 points left unused, Jordan Addison's 20.75 among them — but it didn't matter with a coaching disaster like that across the field. The all-time series between these two now sits 10-9 in Provenzano's favor.
Sharpe Erases the Week's Biggest Deficit, Tu Puka Madre's Lead Goes Up in Smoke
Sharpe is #1 132.48 — Tu Puka Madre 107.39
Tu Puka Madre led Sharpe is #1 by 30.65 entering the Sunday early games — the largest lead anyone held all week — riding a 30.65 Thursday night of their own. Then David Bruce's Sharpe is #1 answered with 50.55 in the early games and 81.93 late — 132.48 from that window on to Tu Puka's 76.74 — obliterating the deficit and closing out a 132.48-107.39 win, a 25.09-point final margin and the week's largest blown lead by a comfortable amount. Jose Velez Capin's Tu Puka Madre falls to 0-3 on a three-game skid, while Bruce moves to 2-1. The all-time series now sits 11-4 in Bruce's favor.
NFCDEEZNUTZZ Steals One Late, Secretary of War's Bench Makes It Costlier
Secretary of War 91.28 — NFCDEEZNUTZZ 114.87
Secretary of War led NFCDEEZNUTZZ 62.49-54.12 entering the Sunday late games, an 8.37-point cushion, before getting torched 60.75-28.79 from that window on and dropping the finale 91.28-114.87, a 23.59-point swing. NFCDEEZNUTZZ closed it with 32.7 points across Sunday and Monday night, climbing from 82.17 to the final 114.87. Josh Stubblefield's Secretary of War compounds the collapse with a genuine coaching loss — 26.15 points left on the bench against an optimal lineup of 117.43 that wins this game, with Wan'Dale Robinson (19.7), Josh Downs (13.7) and Mike Washington Jr. (12.15) all riding the pine. Ian Spencer's NFCDEEZNUTZZ moves to 2-1 and extends the all-time series lead to 3-1.