LLCooJP wins the Pickem' Both LIGHTS OUT & RizzDhuzz turned in the exact same picks sheet this week. Picked all the favorites and left the confidence scores untouched, a straight 1 to 13 points chronologically. In a week where the only underdogs that win do it early in the day on Sunday, like week 8 turned out to be, it has a good chance to be a winning strategy. LLCoolJP held the lead going into the MNF matchup, but with only 10 points left to earn on the Chiefs, he ended up in third place as LIGHTS OUT & RizzDhuzz jumped past him to win the week 8 Confidence prize.

With just the two big upsets this week, the field was crowded at the top of the Pickem' contest. A total of 8 players finished with 11 wins and another 14 players had 10 wins. In the top group, LLCoolJP and MightyCardinal both predicted a winning Chief's score of 30 points to stay tied on the first tire-breaker. MightyCardinal was the only one of the leaders to not lose on both the Bengals and Falcons as he wisely went with the Jets, but his prediction of 20 points for the Commanders was one higher than LLCoolJP, which made the latter the week 8 Pickem' champ, giving the rookie another trophy to add to his case.

The Chargers took care of business on TNF to avoid a third Thursday upset in a row, but things immediately went sideways at the start of the Sunday action as the hugely favored Falcons and Bengals both went down (along with 98% and 97%, respectively, of the players). Everything stabilized after that and the week became very vanilla, but the damage had been done. 10 players lost lives on the Dirty Birds, another 13 went down with the Cats, and another couple lost on the 9ers and Steelers. 15 of the 25 losers were completely eliminated from the Survivor contest, which leaves just 15 players remaining with both lives intact and another 42 clinging onto hope. This week's winners were mostly betting on the Colts with a big chunk of NE and TB backers as well.