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.
Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ 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 119 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Cow Coffin BBQ CCBBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 159.4172 | 161.98 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 161.6456 | 162.24 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 158.8228 | 163.11 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0744 | 151.9316 | 154.50 | top 64% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey State Barbecue Championship | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 59% | 2025-07-12 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-12 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 31 / 63 (645.5088) | 32 (164.5372) | 36 (161.6456) | 19 (167.3944) | 40 (151.9316) |
| 2024-07-13 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 43 / 62 (638.1488) | 46 (159.4172) | 35 (162.8344) | 42 (158.8228) | 40 (157.0744) |