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 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 140 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 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 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Cow Coffin BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Cow Coffin BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before Cow Coffin BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 157.0628 | 159.10 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 160.5028 | 163.66 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 155.4056 | 156.54 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 157.1200 | 159.41 | top 60% |
“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 | 41 | 0 | top 67% | 2026-07-11 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 66% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-11 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 41 / 62 (647.3260) | 45 (161.1316) | 29 (166.8228) | 48 (157.6800) | 38 (161.6916) |
| 2023-07-14 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship 🏅 North Wildwood, NJ | 43 / 64 (630.0912) | 50 (157.0628) | 40 (160.5028) | 51 (155.4056) | 37 (157.1200) |