by Alana Klein
Highlights of the week
- Oceanside-Beaumont
- The Bombers just can’t seem to get over that hurdle for their 2nd win. Beaumont still has a chance to get in, but they have an absolutely brutal schedule to finish the season.
- The Bombers just can’t seem to get over that hurdle for their 2nd win. Beaumont still has a chance to get in, but they have an absolutely brutal schedule to finish the season.
- Albany-Nashville
- Nashville won a thrilling shootout that saw a handful of AF1 records set. The Kats are in the driver’s seat for the #1 seed … but it’s not yet written in stone.
- Nashville won a thrilling shootout that saw a handful of AF1 records set. The Kats are in the driver’s seat for the #1 seed … but it’s not yet written in stone.
- Kentucky-Washington
- Kentucky misses a huge opportunity to enter the discussion for a first-round bye. The game was marred by a scuffle right at the half that was so bad that the league office got involved.
- Kentucky misses a huge opportunity to enter the discussion for a first-round bye. The game was marred by a scuffle right at the half that was so bad that the league office got involved.
- Michigan-Minnesota
- Michigan puts up a hard-fought W as they keep up their push for the final playoff spot.
Into the record books
- Nashville’s Kyle Kaplan tallied 24 points — the second-most points recorded by a kicker (26 by Henry Nell for Albany in 2025).
- Malik Honeycutt had 3 kick return touchdowns, which I’m going to go out on a limb and say at least ties the AF1 record.
- Albany @ Nashville far surpassed the previous record for combined points in a game (147) and Albany has the most points ever scored in a loss (69).
Stats of the Week
- Nashville’s Kaplan had 13 deuces on the season coming into the weekend and recorded 6 more on Saturday.
Tiebreakers
- Beaumont clinched the head-to-head tiebreaker outright over Oceanside.
- Washington clinched the head-to-head tiebreaker outright over Kentucky.
PLAYOFFS?! Don’t talk about playoffs! PLAYOFFS?!
* These are not the final seeds, but rather the minimum seed clinched
- Albany: 3
- Nashville: 4
- Kentucky: 6
- Oceanside: eliminated
Best possible playoff seeding
- Albany: 1
- Beaumont: 3
- Kentucky: 1
- Michigan: 4
- Minnesota: 3
- Nashville: 1
- Oceanside: e
- Washington: 3
Standings
| Rank | Team | Win % | PPG | H2H |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | x-Nashville Kats | 0.889 | 59.78 | Michigan, Minnesota, Oceanside |
| 2 | x-Albany Firebirds | 0.800 | 53.20 | Beaumont, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oceanside, Washington |
| 3 | x-Kentucky Barrels | 0.700 | 46.67* | Michigan, Nashville, Oceanside |
| 4 | Minnesota Monsters | 0.556 | 38.00 | Michigan, Oceanside |
| 5 | Washington Wolfpack | 0.556 | 35.11 | Kentucky, Oceanside |
| 6 | Michigan Arsenal | 0.400 | 42.40 | Albany |
| 7 | Beaumont Renegades | 0.375 | 34.38 | Oceanside, Washington |
| 8 | e-Oceanside Bomebrs | 0.100 | 39.20 | |
| Oregon Lightning | 0.111 | 22.89 |
x: playoff berth
y: 1st round bye
z: 1st round bye + home field advantage
e: eliminated
* This doesn’t factor in the 1 point Kentucky was awarded for the forfeiture win over Oregon.
NOTE: I use points per game instead of total points because there will not at any point in the season be a time when all teams have played the same number of games until the final whistle of the final game. Therefore, PPG is a more accurate indication of where teams would stand at this point in time instead of using the “Total Points” tiebreaker.
# In the event of a tie between 3+ teams:
- Compare head-to-head results in a round robin-style elimination.
- Compare total points scored in a round robin-style elimination.
- If a team can be seeded after a step, remove that team from the tiebreaker and (if there are still 3+ teams) start over with head-to-head, repeating the process until there are only 2 teams remaining.
- Revert to 2-team tiebreaker rules.