Fifth Down Challenge vs Crimson Captain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fifth Down Challenge
Create and join college football pick'em leagues with friends. Make five weekly picks against the spread or over/under, with your selections hidden until game time. Track live scores and league standings.
- Create custom pick'em leagues
- Make five weekly picks
- Picks hidden until game time
- Live scores and gameday board
- League standings by win percentage
- League administration tools
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Fifth Down runs a college football pick'em league for you and your friends. Everyone takes five picks a week — spreads, over/unders, any mix. Picks stay hidden from the rest of the league until each game kicks off, so nobody can tail you. Once the ball is in the air, the Gameday board shows who took what and how it's going. The line you take is frozen the moment you pick it. If it moves afterwards, you're graded on the number you took. WHAT YOU GET • The week's slate, with lines that update all week • Your card at a glance, so you can check your five without hunting • Live scores and a league-wide board on gameday • Standings by win percentage — one table, no arguments • Your school's logo as your badge • A rules page written from your league's own settings FOR WHOEVER RUNS IT Rename the league, cap the number of teams, remove players, or hand the job to someone else.
Crimson Captain
Get exclusive, verified recruiting intelligence for Oklahoma Sooners sports. Access daily briefs, commit predictions, and a timeline of all recruiting news. Enjoy player interviews and film grades with offline reading capabilities.
- Verified recruiting intelligence
- Daily recruiting briefs
- Commitment predictions
- Recruiting timeline
- Player interviews with audio
- Film grades on targets
- Offline reading
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The Crimson Captain is Sooner recruiting intelligence: verified, sourced, and OU-centric. The app puts the site's command center in your pocket. THE RECRUITING COMMAND CENTER A daily brief built from verified reporting — the biggest changes since you last checked, trending targets, a big-board snapshot, visit dates on record, and position-by-position rooms. Every line links to its evidence, and unknowns stay unknown: report dates are always labeled 'reported', never dressed up as event dates. COMMIT WATCH The Captain's editorial read on which Oklahoma targets could commit and how soon — tiered, argued, and grounded in the evidence record. THE WIRE One timeline that answers 'what did I miss?': published intel, recruiting alerts, weekend visit reports, and moments when the community clubhouse lights up. INTERVIEWS & FILM Player interviews with a full audio player — background playback, lock-screen controls, 15-second skips — plus film grades on OU targets. BUILT FOR MEMBERS Subscribers get every story, alerts they can tune by topic, followed-recruit notifications, home-screen widgets, offline reading, and Spotlight search of the recruit database. New here? Join at crimsoncaptain.com. The Crimson Captain is independent Sooner coverage — every claim on the site traces to archived, verified reporting. Membership is an auto-renewable monthly subscription. Terms of Use: https://crimsoncaptain.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://crimsoncaptain.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fifth Down Challenge at none against Crimson Captain's 2. Crimson Captain's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (28 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Crimson Captain sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Fifth Down Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fifth Down Challenge against 5.0 for Crimson Captain. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crimson Captain has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Fifth Down Challenge ships an update weekly, Crimson Captain daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fifth Down Challenge | Crimson Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fifth Down Sports LLC | Matt Blackwell |
Customer experience
Fifth Down Challenge
Crimson Captain
In-app purchases
Fifth Down Challenge
No in-app purchases
Crimson Captain
- Crimson Captain Intel1 Month trial$12.991 Month
- Crimson Captain Standard1 Month trial$24.991 Month
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