With this week's 31st running of the Dirt Late Model Dream taking shape at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, we're ramping up our coverage of the $100,000-to-win event that's streamed live on FloRacing.

Below is a look at 10 favorites (listed alphabetically) for Dream XXXI, the June 5-7 event at the Eldora half-mile, with a pair of $30,000-to-win prelims Thursday and Friday that culminates in Saturday's six-figure finale.

Dream Week starts June 4 with a $20,000-to-win FloRacing Night in America presented by Kubota event.

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Garrett Alberson, Las Cruces, N.M.

Best career Eldora finish: 7th (2024 World 100)

Last season at Eldora: DNQ (Dream); 7th (World 100); 13th (DTWC)

Comment: This time last year, the New Mexico driver wasn’t close to cracking this list. But since his DNQ at the 2024 Dream, the Roberts Motorsports driver has won an Iron-Man Series feature at Eldora, led laps at the World 100 and snagged his first Big E crown jewel top-10. He’s been fast on half-miles in 2025, too, with two victories, eight top-fives and 10 top-10s in 11 features.

Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2015, 2023-24 Dreams; 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021-22 World 100s; 2020 Intercontinental Classic; 2022 Eldora Million)

Last season at Eldora: 1st (Dream); 3rd (World 100); 18th (DTWC)

Comment: Davenport’s legend at Eldora grows by the year. The Double L Motorsports pilot led the last 170 laps of the Dream and his 10 total Eldora major triumphs are nearing Scott Bloomquist’s all-time mark of 14. He isn’t invincible at Eldora, though. He lost the lead with 37 laps left of last year’s World and lost an engine while leading last year’s DTWC on lap 65.

Tim McCreadie, Watertown, N.Y.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2018 World 100)

Last season at Eldora: 14th (Dream); 4th (World 100); 2nd (DTWC)

Comment: The 51-year-old must be feeling good about his Dream chances having won two of the last three World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series events in his Briggs Transport ride. T-Mac, whose Eldora starts last season came in the Rocket Chassis house car, also has back-to-back top-five finishes at Eldora major events, another reminder he’s a true contender this week.

Dale McDowell, Chickamauga, Ga.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2014 Dream and 2005 World 100)

Last season at Eldora: 6th (Dream); 2nd (World 100); 22nd (DTWC)

Comment: In a day and age where the competition gap widens between regional and national teams, the 59-year-old defies that at Eldora. He’s finished inside the top-10 in 22 of the last 24 Dreams and World 100s since 2013. The question is can he qualify up front? The Shane McDowell Racing pilot has never won a Dream heat race and has started inside the top-10 in just two of the last 17 Dreams.

Devin Moran, Dresden, Ohio

Best career Eldora finish: 3rd (2023 DTWC)

Last season at Eldora: 12th (Dream); 5th (World 100); 4th (DTWC)

Comment: Surprisingly enough, the 30-year-old has never finished better than eighth at the Dream (2023) and he’s only seen the checkers in four features across his 13 event starts (five DNFs, four DNQs). The Double Down Motorsports driver notched his first Eldora prelim win last year at the Dream, so at least he enters the crown jewel without the weight of the ballyhooed Million Dollar Curse (a Moran hadn’t won at Eldora since his father Donnie’s 2001 Eldora Million triumph).

Hudson O’Neal, Martinsville, Ind.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2023 World 100)

Last season at Eldora: 4th (Dream); 11th (World 100); 7th (DTWC)

Comment: Compiling an average finish of 5.3 over the last six major events at the track, the 24-year-old’s developed into one of the steadiest Eldora drivers. The SSI Motorsports driver has also been one of the steadiest drivers in the nation since hiring crew chief Jason Durham with five victories, 11 podiums and 18 straight top-10s since April 11.

Brandon Overton, Evans, Ga.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (swept 2021 double Dreams; 2022 Dream)

Last season at Eldora: 3rd (Dream); 18th (World 100); 21st (DTWC)

Comment: Outside of the Saturday heat race crash in 2023, the Dream has brought the best out of the Longhorn Factory Team driver over the years (three victories and four podiums since 2021). When the 34-year-old won the Dream in 2022, he entered that week ranked seventh in the DirtonDirt Top 25 poll. This year, he enters in a similar position tied for sixth in the power rankings.

Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2016 and 2024 World 100s)

Last season at Eldora: 2nd (Dream); 1st (World 100); 1st (DTWC)

Comment: Behind a nation’s best 16 touring wins and two straight Eldora crown jewel triumphs, the owner-operator appears to have dethroned Jonathan Davenport as the man to beat in Rossburg. One caveat: He’s yet to win the Dream, one of the few major events that’s eluded the top-ranked driver.

Brandon Sheppard, Berlin, Ill.

Best career Eldora finish: 1st (2019 Dream and 2023 DTWC)

Last season at Eldora: 7th (Dream); 12th (World 100); 15th (DTWC)

Comment: The last driver to win the Dream not named Davenport or Overton is flying under the radar among his fellow Dream contenders. Rocket1 has been strong at Eldora since Sheppard stepped out of the seat at the end of 2022, winning the 2023 World 100 with O’Neal and posting a runner-up finish at last year's DTWC with McCreadie. Perhaps Sheppard breaks the bank with his Rocket1 team once again at Eldora come Saturday night.

Ricky Thornton Jr., Chandler, Ariz.

Best career Eldora finish: 3rd (2024 DTWC)

Last season at Eldora: 8th (Dream); 20th (World 100); 3rd (DTWC)

Comment: While he’s won a trio of preliminary nights at Eldora Speedway, the 100-lapper has eluded the Koehler Motorsports driver, especially the Dream where he owns a single top-five in seven starts. With half-miles suiting RTJ well in 2025 (six of his 13 victories are on bigger tracks), perhaps this is his year.