Maura Higgins's 25 of 30 is season 35's best 'Dancing With the Stars' score. Can any couple top it on Oct 13?

Dancing with the Stars season 35 produced a new high score on October 13's "Super Bowl Night" episode, topping Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas's week-four mark of 25 out of 30. With ESPN's Joe Buck sitting as a guest judge, the judging scale expanded to 40 points, and two couples tied for the night's top mark at 36 out of 40: Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy, who danced a paso doble to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," and Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach, who performed a salsa to Nelly's "Hot in Herre." Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa followed close behind at 33. At the bottom of the leaderboard, Guillermo Rodriguez and Witney Carson scored 22 of 40 for their salsa to Bad Bunny's "Titi Me Pregunto," the lowest judges' total of the night, and the couple was eliminated after four consecutive weeks hovering near the bottom despite fan support. The Predict Six community was evenly split going in, with half expecting a couple to top Higgins's mark and half doubting it. The expanded 40-point scale on guest-judge nights makes such records more likely to fall, since the guest judge's marks are simply added to the three regular judges' total rather than averaged into the existing 30-point scale.