Usetheforceluca needed extra time to win the week 5 Pickem', again For the third week in a row, there was a huge Thursday night upset to kick off the week, but this time the Confidence winner didn't miss the pick, instead tehy were one of three players who correctly picked the winner! Heading into Monday Night Football, Usetheforceluca led the Confidence contest with 93 points, but with only 3 points remaining on the Bills almost got the tie he needed to secure the win. Instead, the Bills win thrust TheWestBandits into the Week 5 Confidence victory thanks the 13 points she still had left to earn, giving her a total of exactly 100 points.

MightyCardinal would have been alone atop the Pickem' standings had the Rams managed to make their OT field goal, but instead Usetheforceluca, MightyCardinal, Dancer's Dogs, JMS7, liveaction, TheWetBandits all finished the week tied with 11 wins. Based on the halftime score of the MNF game, TheWetBandits was looking good for the week 5 sweep, but then the scoring really opened up and once the score passed 30 points, Usetheforceluca secured his second Pickem' win in a row on the first tie-breaker. MightyCardinal finished in second place by just a single winning-score point.

Oof. The 0-4 Bucs rolled into the Big D with an undrafted rookie QB at the helm and walked out with an impressive 24-16 victory. What was maybe more impressive was that they also took down 27 players in the Survivor contest, 19 of whom were eliminated completely from the contest. The Bengals and Texas accounted for the majority of the winners in week 5, but with Miami on bye in week 6, many players will have to find a new patsy. There are now just 9 players remaining with both lives left and another 31 still holding on with one life. As a point of reference, last year at this time there were still 29 players with two lives remaining.