Finch Howe League Cup Friday Quiz

🎣 DTTW, 176.4–110.6 over ⚽ TPC in 2020 — also the widest Semifinal, by 65.8 — on the way to that year's Stage. It is 🎣 DTTW's only Semifinal until this week, when it is back as the 1 seed, against 🍆 ZJ, at 2–5 and with the league's lowest PPG this season, 97.2.

⚜️ K&G, against 🧪 CLI, 75.1–115.2 — a week after winning the Quarterfinal 154.2–133.4, and a year after winning the whole Stage. 💨 LTF's 75.5 against 🕳️ TBH in 2021 is 0.4 better. Quarterfinal winners are 3–3 in the Semifinal; 🍆 ZJ is next, against 🎣 DTTW.

🦞 Doug, which lost to 🧪 CLI in 2021, 87.5–101.7, and 💨 LTF in 2023, 133.3–153.9, then won the last two, over ⏪ RTRO in 2024, 154.8–116.7, and 🏎️ M&N last season, 137.3–122.1. This week is the ⏪ RTRO rematch. 💨 LTF has played four Semifinals; nobody else more than three.

The Panthers D/ST, for 🎣 DTTW against 🍆 ZJ's Saints in 2014, 86.3–143.5, and for 🦞 Doug against 🦅 Pwns's Ravens last week. 🦞 Doug won anyway, 122.0–70.5. It is the fourth time the Panthers D/ST has been started for −7.0 or worse, the most of any defense, including ⚽ TPC's −9.0 in 2018, tied for the lowest ever.

💨 LTF, with a scratched Breece Hall in an 82.0–110.6 loss to 🕳️ TBH, the only other franchise above 6.5 per 100, at 7.7. 🦞 Doug has never started one, in 183 games.

🧪 CLI, in a 181.3–96.6 win over ⚜️ K&G. Next best is ⚜️ K&G's 177.2. The same 181.3 won 🧪 CLI's MWM Quarterfinal that week, 181.3–109.1 — the first of five straight Stage wins, which brought 🧪 CLI the 2021 and 2025 Stages and the Marathon. 🧪 CLI is back in the Quarterfinal this week, against 🍆 ZJ.

🗿 Mitch, 43.8 in 2019 week 7 in a loss to ⚜️ K&G, 43.8–136.4. Next-lowest is 🍆 ZJ's 49.7 against 🧪 CLI in week 7 last season, 49.7–140.6 — and 🍆 ZJ meets 🧪 CLI again this week, in the MWM Quarterfinal.

🦞 Doug is 10–6 in week 7, and has won the last four. ⏪ RTRO and ⚽ TPC have 9. This week 🦞 Doug plays 🦅 Pwns — and sits out the MWM Quarterfinal as the 2 seed, with ⏪ RTRO waiting in the Semifinal.

💨 LTF, beaten by 🎣 DTTW 123.8–133.3 in 2020, by ⏪ RTRO 108.4–148.7 in 2022 and by ⚽ TPC 85.8–95.5 in 2023. 🦞 Doug has lost the last two Finals, and as this year's 2 seed is one Semifinal win from a third straight.

👨‍🍳 M&R lost the 2020 Semifinal to 💨 LTF, 84.7–97.8, then the Quarterfinal to 🧪 CLI in 2021, 109.1–181.3, and to 🦞 Doug in 2023, 84.0–165.2. 🍆 ZJ and 🏎️ M&N are 0–2, 🦅 Pwns 0–1. 🍆 ZJ gets its third try this week, against 🧪 CLI, whose five Stage wins are the most of anyone.

🏎️ M&N, 68.3 in 2022 week 6 in a loss to 🦞 Doug, 68.3–109.8. 🦞 Doug was on the other side of the next-lowest too, ⚽ TPC's 70.8–112.1 in 2012 — and 🦞 Doug plays 💨 LTF this week.

🧪 CLI, beaten 146.9–154.4 by 🗿 Mitch in 2018. 🦞 Doug's 146.0 in a 2015 loss to ⏪ RTRO is next. And 🗿 Mitch had done it to 🧪 CLI in week 6 before, 153.2–140.4 in 2011, fourth on the list.

Cooper Kupp, 🕳️ TBH's round-5 pick (#54 overall) in 2021: 369.9 points in 16 starts. 🍆 ZJ took Ja'Marr Chase three picks later, and 🕳️ TBH went 12–2 and won the 2021 Championship ⭐.

Wes Welker, 51.4 — 2011 week 3, started by 🗿 Mitch in a loss to 🎣 DTTW, 139.6–144.3. Ja'Marr Chase came within 0.2 for ⚜️ K&G in 2023. That game was half of Welker's 101.5 three-week WR record, the one Jaxon Smith-Njigba broke this season.

⏪ RTRO, 145.9 PPG across 2018 and 9–4, then beaten in the Playoff Quarterfinal 130.2–161.2 by the 6–7 🧪 CLI team from question 2, third on this board at 142.0 PPG. ⏪ RTRO finished 5th.

🦞 Doug, over rival ⚜️ K&G, 189.1–166.7. ⚜️ K&G's 166.7 is still the most anyone has scored in a losing week-5 effort.

⚽ TPC, beaten 71.3–137.8 by rival 🦅 Pwns in the 11th-place game. It was ⚽ TPC's third Sacko, tied with 🗿 Mitch for the most in Crew history.

Josh Gordon, #109 overall. His 43.9 was more than four times 👨‍🍳 M&R's margin in a 127.2–117.1 win over 🧪 CLI, and he added 15.1 when 👨‍🍳 M&R knocked 🧪 CLI out of the playoffs, 157.7–148.0. 👨‍🍳 M&R went on to lose the 2013 Championship to 📜 G&D.

⏪ RTRO, over 🎣 DTTW both times: 183.3–175.6 in 2014 and 114.6–114.5 in 2018. 🎣 DTTW still leads the series 15–14, including last season's Playoff Semifinal win 170.1–151.5 over ⏪ RTRO that propelled 🎣 DTTW to the 2025 Championship ⭐.

Josh Allen, for 🏎️ M&N in week 14 of 2024. He'd put up 48.2 against them for 🕳️ TBH in 2021. He holds the best game in ⚽ TPC–🦅 Pwns as well, and has starred for both sides of that one too.

🎣 DTTW, 66.2 in 2023 week 4 in a loss to ⚽ TPC, 66.2–168.5. And in 2026 🎣 DTTW are off to the lowest-scoring three-game start in Crew history: 72.1 PPG, more than ten a game below the previous low (🏎️ M&N, 82.6 in 2025). They still won one of the three.

🍆 ZJ, in 2010: 0–3, then 7–7, then two playoff wins in the eight-team league's four-team bracket. 🏎️ M&N are the only franchise to make the playoffs after an 0–3 start twice, in 2015 and 2021. ⚜️ K&G are 0–3 for the third time; they missed the playoffs in 2013 and 2022. Of the 19 teams to start 0–3 before this season, three made it.

David Johnson — 🕳️ TBH, round 1 (#6 overall), 378.9 points.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba, for 👨‍🍳 M&R, this season: 26.6, 42.7 and 35.9. He broke Wes Welker's 101.5 for 🗿 Mitch in 2011, a record that had stood for fifteen years — Julio Jones came within 0.3 of it in 2015. And 👨‍🍳 M&R still lost week 3 to 🏎️ M&N, 117.1–122.4, with his 35.9 in it.

💨 LTF, with 15 since 2015 — ten scratched and five on IR. 🕳️ TBH are one behind, two of them in the same week of 2015: Carlos Hyde and Anquan Boldin, both scratched. 🦞 Doug are the only active franchise never to have started one.

⚽ TPC, in a 182.3–137.2 win over ⏪ RTRO. Next best: 🧪 CLI at 178.6. And this season's week 3 matches ⏪ RTRO up with ⚽ TPC in the regular season, and ⏪ RTRO up with 🧪 CLI in the Community Shield 🛡️.

👨‍🍳 M&R beat ⚽ TPC 174.0–68.6 in 2020 week 3 — 105.4 points of daylight.

Trick question — it's two of them. 🕳️ TBH won back-to-back in 2021 and 2022, and ⚽ TPC did the same in 2023 and 2024 before ⚜️ K&G stopped them last season. 🎣 DTTW has played in two Shields and lost both.

Alvin Kamara, 117 starts — 31 of them for 💨 LTF.

Deebo Samuel Sr., ⚽ TPC's round-6 pick (#72 overall) in 2021: 287.3 points in 16 starts.

🍆 ZJ 115.7, 🎣 DTTW 115.4 — 2017 week 2, by 0.30.

Tyreek Hill, 41.8 for 💨 LTF in 2022 week 2 in a win over 👨‍🍳 M&R, 142.4–138.5.

Dez Bryant — 1 start for ⚽ TPC, 8.8 points.

💨 LTF started Alvin Kamara, scratched, in a loss to ⚽ TPC, 101.2–122.6.

🍆 ZJ, 4. Next: 👨‍🍳 M&R with 3.