The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Pork University Old School BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 145 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Pork University Old School BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1708 at their best, 234 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Pork University Old School BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pork University Old School BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8112 | 151.4516 | 153.13 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.1200 | 107.1544 | 122.14 | top 100% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8000 | 149.1316 | 149.97 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134.2516 | 133.0744 | 133.66 | top 99% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| AR | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 79.4% | 79.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 75.8% | 75.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-09 | Colorado Pork & Hops Challenge Grand Junction, CO | 49 / 49 (571.9548) | 46 (151.4516) | 49 (137.1200) | 48 (149.1316) | 48 (134.2516) |
| 2014-09-26 | Bikes Blues & BBQ Fayetteville, AR | 29 / 30 (545.8400) | 29 (154.8112) | 30 (107.1544) | 27 (150.8000) | 30 (133.0744) |