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Mock Draft Recap: Big Twelve
05/14/2009
After three drafts of wondering if I picked the right quarterback or struggling to round out my lineup with a second wide receiver, there was no such worry or regret following this week's draft. It was Big Twelve Mock Draft night and everyone walked away feeling like they just hit the lotto. After all it is hard to go wrong when you're picking from a league that saw Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson go in the 8th round...Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Sun Belt
05/13/2009
([photo/Icon SM) It's very easy to forget about the teams from the Sun Belt. Sure, you may get lucky enough to see one of them on an odd weekday game, or maybe catch a fleeting glimpse of another as you're trolling deep into the ESPN GamePlan package on Saturday. But let's face it, they simply don't get as much air time as the schools from the BCS conferences. Or even Mountain West, WAC, MAC or C-USA for that matter...Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Pac-10
05/12/2009
(photo/Icon SM)Compared to the other BCS conferences the Pac-10 was relatively quiet this spring. It's business as usual in most places out west. Sure the big news was the fact that Oregon conducted its first spring practice in 14 years without Mike Bellotti at the helm, but even this transition to Chip Kelly appears so seamless that we don't expect the Ducks to miss a beat. ..Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Big XII
05/10/2009
Looking for some actual fantasy players that emerged this spring? No shock that they come from the Big XII, a conference where the next great fantasy superstar is a commencement, suspension or injury away...Full Article |
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Mock Draft Recap: SEC
05/08/2009
Another Thursday night, another post-Spring mock draft at CFFinsider.com Tonight Jim, Alex and I welcomed Michael Hurcomb, CBSSportsline.com fantasy writer extraordinaire, to our little SEC draft fiesta...Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: MAC
05/05/2009
The MAC continues to climb the charts of fantasy-worthy conferences, and spring practice reports support our opinion that those in All-120 leagues would be very wise to camp out in the conference known as the "Cradle of Coaches." Yet even if you decide to pass on these under-the-radar gridders on draft day you’ll want to keep tabs on MAC players all season. This is a conference where a walk-on can suddenly emerge as a star fantasy producer, and relatively unknown 5’6” tailbacks can become superstars. ..Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Big East
05/03/2009
(photo/Icon SM)The Big East is, for the most part, a league in transition. Pitt lost its most talented back since Tony Dorsett and Connecticut said goodbye to all-everything workhorse Donald Brown. Rutgers bid adieu to Mike Teel, Kenny Britt and Tiquan Underwood, and of course, Pat White has moved out of Morgantown following his record-setting career. Factor in the dire straits of both Louisville and Syracuse, and it would appear that Cincinnati and South Florida are sitting in the famed catbird’s seat. And they are. But this doesn’t mean you’ll want to focus solely on Bearcats and Bulls...Full Article |
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Mock Draft Recap: Big Ten
05/01/2009
This week we welcomed ESPN columnist Adam Rittenberg to our show that airs every Thursday night on the Fantasy Sports Channel. Anyone who reads Adam’s Big Ten blog with regularity knows that he’s the best in the business when it comes to inside information on the conference. His breaking news, interviews and profiles provide college football fans and fantasy owners with an inside look at the Big Ten...Full Article |
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Big Ten Mock Draft Preview
04/30/2009
Tonight at 9pm EDT on the College Fantasy Football Show on the Fantasy Sports Channel we'll be conducting our Big Ten Mock Draft. The draft will be conducted live with a special guest, ESPN's Adam Rittenberg. Along with the draft we'll hear Adam's expert opinion on several Big Ten topics, including the latest with Indiana's Kellen Lewis, top newcomers to watch and more. Be sure to listen live at 9pm EDT!..Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: ACC
04/29/2009
A cursory look at ACC spring practice happenings shows a few sure things and a whole bunch of positional battles that will linger into the season. We think we have a potential breakout back in Tallahassee, and we know we have some very promising quarterbacks ready to make that next step. Yet we still cannot say for certain who will emerge at may key positions in traditional fantasy hot spots, and this is especially true when it comes to position battles at Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami and even Virginia Tech. Youth will be served in 2009 as some of the conference's best fantasy talents won't be required to declare a major for another year or two, and this will make the ACC a potential drafting goldmine, especially for those playing a little keeper league college fantasy football. ..Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Independents
04/28/2009
If you think we chose to post the Independent Spring Wrap next so that we could get caught up on the other conferences then you're exactly right. We are busy compiling our notes on every conference, and we will steadily release them over the next couple of weeks. We are going for thoroughness over speed, after all for even the most impatient drafters that special day is still a couple of months out. Two down...ten to go...Full Article |
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Spring Wrap: Big Ten
04/26/2009
(photo/Icon SM)We've come to the conclusion of spring practice in the Big Ten, and this signals a time of year when the fine folks in the Midwest begin to think the weather may actually warm up at SOME point. And some interesting events have transpired. Indiana named a starting quarterback before practice, Iowa has only seen single digit run-ins with the law, and Michigan is pinning much of its hope on a talented freshman quarterback...Full Article |
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2010 NFL Draft Look Ahead
04/24/2009
We know it’s a little early to be ranking the 2010 NFL draft prospects, as the 2009 draft hasn't even started yet. But, since we spend so much time ranking college skill players and are already in NFL draft mode, we figured we’d throw out some way-too-early thoughts on next year’s draft. ..Full Article |
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2009 NFL Draft: TE Rankings
04/23/2009
No set of experts' rankings befuddle us more than the tight end position. There seems to be a wide variance of opinion on where the versatile athlete James Casey fits, and this is understandable due to the wide-open Rice attack...Full Article |
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2009 NFL Draft: WR Rankings
04/22/2009
As the draft countdown clock continues to tick we move on to a very intriguing group of wide receivers. There are very few 6-5 burners (we’ll have to wait for Julio Jones and DeAndre Brown for those) but there are plenty of multi-dimensional receivers with the ability to gain yards in a variety of methods. While Jeremy Maclin sits atop our WR Big Board he’s by no means the only wideout we see making a major impact on Sunday. As is the case with every other skill position it’s going to come down to the ability to stay healthy and perform in the right system. ..Full Article |
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2009 NFL Draft: RB Rankings
04/21/2009
Thanks to a number of early entries, the running back position shows more promise than the quarterbacks. In fact, each of our top four were juniors or redshirt sophomores last season. While we are sad to see them go, it was clearly time for each to do so. Without further ado, here are our running back rankings for the 2009 NFL Draft...Full Article |
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2009 NFL Draft: QB Rankings
04/20/2009
We kick off our 2009 NFL Draft player rankings with the quarterback spot. In reading below, you'll quickly find that we don't think this is a bumper crop of quarterbacks. If not for the Detroit Lions (whose best quarterback the last 20 years has been Erik Kramer) having the #1 pick it is unlikely a quarterback would be selected until a quarter of the way through the first round. There is just no surefire gunslinger in this year's draft. ..Full Article |
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2009 NFL Draft
04/19/2009
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programing for some NFL draft talk. Don't worry, we'll be compiling our notes and wrapping up spring practice next week.
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Mock Draft Recap: Non-BCS
04/17/2009
(photo/Icon SM) On Thursday we kicked off the first in a series of mock drafts on our show that airs every Thursday night on the Fantasy Sports Channel. Up first was a conglomerate of all the non-BCS and Independent conferences with special guest drafter Graham Watson from ESPN.com. We'll be following this draft up with a separate draft for each of the BCS conferences in the coming weeks...Full Article |
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Special Announcement!
04/15/2009
(photo/Icon SM) We had a chance to talk with Graham Watson from ESPN.com on Wednesday, and we will be replaying the interview on our College Fantasy Football Insider Show this Thursday at 9pm EST on the Fantasy Sports Channel. We conducted a mini-mock draft of players from the non-BCS conferences and we asked Graham some critical questions. You won't want to miss her answers. ..Full Article |
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Hall of Fame Inductee: Taurean Henderson
04/10/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)He’s the second Red Raider inducted into the CFFinsider.com Fantasy Hall of Fame, though he’s not a signal caller. He’s the third tailback upon whom this wonderful honor has been bestowed, but he didn’t operate in an offense that truly emphasized the ground attack...Full Article |
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Finish Up Strong
04/05/2009
Every year a handful of college fantasy footballers cap fine careers with great senior campaigns. Last year’s winner of our inaugural “Finish up Strong Award” was Florida State’s senior back Antone Smith. The Seminole began his career with a great deal of hype, drawing comparisons to Warrick Dunn. Smith’s first two seasons saw him share carries with Lorenzo Booker, and through three years he had only 11 touchdowns. Then he emerged to the tune of nearly 900 yards and 16 scores, causing owners who had tossed Smith back into the lake to lament their horrible misfortune...Full Article |
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More Plays = More Points
04/01/2009
Some of the pieces we write on here are highly opinionated, some focus on the numbers and hopefully all are at least mildly entertaining (well, at least when Brian writes). This would fall into the middle category. ..Full Article |
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Spring Fling Vol. III
03/29/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)It has been less than a week since our last Spring Fling, but with all the spring games and scrimmage action over the weekend, our player news updates are quickly making their way off the front page. So here is a quick recap of the top items from the last few days so you don't have to go searching..Full Article |
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Blitz: 2009 College Teams to Watch
03/27/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)Every so often we'll be posting articles from our friends from across the web at FantasyCollegeBlitz.com. Today is one of those days. Vince Mullens from the Blitz takes a look at some of the offense that are on the rise and others that are on the decline. We particularly agree with Vince's list of downward trending teams...Full Article |
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Spring Fling Volume II
03/25/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)In the second installment of our 2009 Spring Flings, we take a look at a few of the story lines that caught our attention over the past seven days or so. Like last week we also conclude with some quick recaps of what we are hearing for those with short attention spans (like myself)...Full Article |
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Top Fantasy Offenses to Raid in 2009
03/22/2009
Assembling your preseason draft board is without a doubt one of the most enjoyable aspects of fantasy sports. You'll likely spend countless hours in self-debate about who's your top quarterback, running back and wide receiver. Even more time will be spent scouting sleeper picks. Who doesn,t love a good sleeper pick? Especially when they pan out. A good sleeper pick could be worth years of fantasy street cred. Often times however, it will be neither that bring us fantasy glory...Full Article |
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Some People are Easy to Dislike
03/19/2009
Shortly after he was hired as coach at Ohio State University back in 2001 Jim Tressel spoke to a crowd of over 18,000 Buckeye fans at halftime of an Ohio State vs. Michigan basketball game. During his speech the new coach brought down the house when he said "I can assure you that you will be proud of your young people in the classroom, in the community and most especially in 310 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan." The crowd went wild, and even if it wasn’t an outright guarantee of victory, it did convey the message that John Cooper’s struggles against his archenemy would soon be in OSU’s rearview mirror. Nearly eight years later Lane Kiffin was hired at a traditional power, and while musing on what he was eagerly anticipating as new Vols' coach young Mr. Kiffin included “singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year, it will be a blast." And snickers could be heard well beyond Gainesville...Full Article |
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2009 CFFinsider Bracket Challenge
03/15/2009
Yeah yeah, we're a college football site, not basketball. But we are giving away free stuff so we thought you'd like that. CFFinsider.com, in collaboration with our friends at FantasyTrophies.com, is pleased to present our 2009 CFFinsider Bracket Challenge. This competition is more than a chance for college football fans to display their versatility by venturing over to the land of round ball. And it's more than an opportunity to prove your ability to predict the unpredictable. This challenge presents a shot to get your buffalo wing-stained paws on the coolest fantasy trophy that I've ever seen, and win a $100 gift card to either Buffalo Wild Wings or Best Buy in the process. The fantasy trophy is a $300 value and the $100 gift card has been valued at uh...$100. ..Full Article |
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Spring Fling Vol. 1
03/12/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)We continue our annual tradition with our first Spring Fling of the season. Over the years these spring flings have mentioned quite a few guys that have later broken out in a big way, and a few fellas who seemed to simply fade away into oblivion. We'll write these flings until we run out of stuff to talk about or until we go all Spinal Tap and spontaneously combust from the excitement. Either way prepare for a bunch of analysis on what's happening around the college fantasy football landscape.
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2009 Look Ahead: Prominent non-BCS Schools
03/10/2009
(Photo/Icon SM)We move towards the finish line of our 2009 Look Aheads with a glance at the non-BCS schools. Notice I said glance, as our loyal readers will find this piece to be a little less robust than those that have taken a cursory look at the BCS schools. Are we slighting the little guy and solely spotlighting the big boys? Nope, we're just running out of time. Spring ball is upon us and we're knee deep into player research mode as I type. So here's a quick glance at some potential fantasy stars for those of you brave enough to venture out of your BCS comfort zone. ..Full Article |
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Notes from the Elite 11 QB Camp
03/07/2009
Photo by Jason Roberts / Osceola's Garnet Sports Media, c. 2009. The 60+ young men who arrived at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning expected to be greeted with warm sunshine, excellent field conditions, and the opportunity to further their skills in an attempt to become regarded as one of the next highly-touted quarterback prospects to be recruited by a prominent NCAA program out of high school...Full Article |
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Let's Play 20 (Plus 100) Questions
03/05/2009
College fantasy football scouting begins during spring ball. It’s the time when potential replacements for departed stars look to make a mark, and it’s becoming an opportunity for an ever-increasing number of freshmen that have enrolled early to show what they can do. Players step up, and we spend a great deal of time scouring spring reports for that little nugget that can provide the edge on draft day. In fact while reading these spring reports two years ago the names Michael Crabtree and DeMarco Murray first caught our attention...Full Article |
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2009 Look Ahead: SEC West
03/02/2009
We conclude the BCS portion of our Spring Look Aheads with a peek at the SEC West, a division that offers a comparable number of fantasy factors to its Eastern counterpart. The likes of Charles Scott, Mark Ingram, Julio Jones, Michael Smith and Jevan Snead all return for 2009, though it's always dangerous to start SEC players during much of the rough and tumble conference campaign. Still with the coaching change at Mississippi State and the continued transformation of the Ole Miss offense, we may be witnessing an offensive rebirth in what is often deemed the nation's strongest conference. ..Full Article |
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HOF Inductees: Zak Kustok and Damien Anderson
03/02/2009
Before the spread attack truly became chic, two Northwestern Wildcats were driving Big Ten defensive coordinators crazy. Aggressive defensive units overplayed and looked silly, unsure of who exactly had the ball. Did the back just run around end? Did the quarterback go the other way with the ball, or did he step back only to find a wide receiver streaking down the field all by his lonesome? The late Randy Walker began quite the resurgence at Northwestern, and the key components were Zak Kustok and Damien Anderson. Watching Kustok, who initially committed to Notre Dame after a stellar career at Carl Sandburg High School, was pure poetry. Anderson, another Illinois product, was one of the most dynamic backs in recent memory. Together they proved that heady players in innovative systems can outperform their bigger, faster and stronger opponents. ..Full Article |
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2009 Spring Football Practice and Game Dates
02/27/2009
Spring is just around the corner - so we hear. In the Northeast, we’re at that time of year when Mother Nature plays the cruel joke of teasing us with a 60 degree day, only to follow it up with a week-long freeze-fest. It won’t be long now before the cracking of pads can be heard from campuses across the nation. Not long at all, in fact. Nevada begins their spring practice on Friday. As in TOMORROW, February 20th. They are the first team to take the spring plunge, which culminates on May 2nd with a handful of leftover spring games...Full Article |
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Look Ahead: SEC East
02/24/2009
Florida brought another national title back to the SEC East, and they did so with an impressive array of fantasy talent. Tim Tebow’s return will highlight the 2009 campaign, but once we move away from Gainesville we find very few surefire fantasy stars in this division. Of course the SEC will always provide its share of top-flight fantasy defenses, but for a conference that is always deemed to bring in the greatest recruiting hauls, one must wonder if we’re seeing here what often happens in the NFL: defenses that are just too skilled for offensive skill position players to truly shine. ..Full Article |
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2009 Look Ahead: Big 12 South
02/23/2009
There’s not much that can be said about the Big 12 South that hasn’t already been discussed. It was the most impressive collection of college fantasy football talent in the country in 2008, and the great majority of it comes back in 2009. Every team but one returns its starting quarterback and each should receive roster consideration in any type of league. And the squads that don’t return their primary ball carrier from a season ago all bring in a stud freshman capable of making an immediate impact. The one team that sees truly significant personnel losses, Texas Tech, is the one program that has shown the greatest ability to withstand key skill position departures while maintaining an incomparable level of offensive production. There is more fantasy talent in this one division than in most conferences, and an early look at the 2009 campaign shows a striking resemblance to 2008. ..Full Article |
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Look Ahead: Big 12 North
02/19/2009
From a high-scoring, defense-optional fantasy perspective the Big 12 North is a wonderful draft day destination, offering free-wheeling quarterbacks, sandy beaches and exciting playmakers. Recently owners have built squads on the likes of Mizzou, Kansas and a smattering of Cornhuskers, and they’ve done just fine and dandy. And you can bet your bottom dollar that 2009 will see it remain among the top national fantasy divisions. However because the north side shares a conference with a division that boasts the likes of Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and hell, even Baylor, the Big 12 North is often viewed by owners as the Sam McKinney, the annoying red-headed stepchild who didn’t add much to the Drummond Family on Diff’rent Strokes. ..Full Article |
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Mike Leach Speaks Out
02/18/2009
Texas Tech coach Mike Leach spoke out on contract negotiations (or lack thereof) on ESPN Live Wednesday night. Below is the video of that interview. We've also pulled out a few excerpts. We'll be talking more on this topic and other on our BlogTalkRadio show Thursday night at 9 p.m...Full Article |
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Look Ahead: ACC Atlantic
02/15/2009
2008's top two fantasy quarterbacks from the ACC Atlantic will return in 09, but each will have to fend off talented youngsters aiming for his job. C.J. Spiller and Da'Rel Scott lead the returning backs, but these two may see some carries vultured by younger backs. At the receiver spot there are just as many questions as number one receivers have moved on while others look to rebound from injury woes. We're not saying the ACC Atlantic should be off limits for fantasy owners, we're just advising that you proceed with extreme caution. ..Full Article |
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Don't You (Forget About Me)
02/13/2009
Not every collegiate star sees his career pan out exactly as anticipated. Many don’t finish where they started. Some see injuries, personal or family problems necessitate a detour. Troy Aikman had his career at Oklahoma change immediately following a broken ankle, an injury that allowed Jamelle Holieway take over the starting job and lead Oklahoma to the title back during the height of the mullet era. Aikman headed west to UCLA and the rest, as they say, is history. Zak Kustok began his career at Notre Dame before he transferred to Northwestern and electrified a rejuvenated Wildcat program. More recently BYU great Max Hall began his career at Arizona State. Ben Mauk moved to Cincy after starting in Winston-Salem, and Jevan Snead has helped Ole Miss reach new heights after losing a heated quarterback battle with Colt McCoy. A transfer, unexpected redshirt or family/personal problems shouldn’t cause a fantasy drafter to see a potential risk; rather they should signal an opportunity. Things change, and talented players who land in the right system can become immediate impact players. ..Full Article |
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Incoming Freshmen: Running Backs
02/08/2009
Of course we save the best for last. Everyone loves running backs because they usually provide the solid foundation for fantasy teams. It is also the position that will be the most scrutinized by fantasy owners. So we needed to make sure we dotted our I’s and crossed our T’s.
First off let me say that I’m excited about this year’s crop of backs. The combination of talent and opportunity is very promising for fantasy owners. Our top ten freshmen backs are all long on potential and draft-worthy in just about any league. ..Full Article |
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Incoming Freshmen: Wide Receivers
02/06/2009
Okay I lied. A few days ago I said the quarterback spot was the toughest position to rank from a fantasy perspective. Not true, wide receivers trump the quarterbacks. They all look spectacular on film. They all catch deep balls and they look like superstars running away from high schoolers. (Photo by Jason Roberts)..Full Article |
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Incoming Freshmen: Quarterbacks
02/04/2009
It's Feb. 4 and fax machines in university athletic offices everywhere are burning through toner faster than office interns can replace it. Football coaches are wearing tracks in their office carpet as they anxiously wait for their prized recruits to send in their Letter of Intent.
The recruiting season is essentially over and assistant head coaches can finally take a day or two to rest. Unfortunately, for us the work has just begun. With the official LOIs in, it's time to finalize our rankings for incoming freshmen for 2009.
We start with the quarterback spot, the prized jewels of the recruiting season. These are the kids that coaches and recruitniks alike drool over in the offseason. Ironically these are also the same kids that probably won't see the field for another two or three years.
Quarterbacks are the toughest to rank. There are recruits that are on campus early and will get a shot to strut their stuff this spring. And others will arrive in the fall behind a proven starter. We do our best to distinguish the difference in our rankings below.
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2009 Look Ahead: ACC Coastal
02/01/2009
While it may never be a hotbed of collegiate football action, the ACC Coastal (home to some of the most beautiful campus settings in the good old USA) is intriguing to this college fantasy fella. There aren’t too many sure-fire fantasy producers, but the division is chock full of potential breakout stars on teams that appear on their way up the food chain. Two traditional powers, Miami and Virginia Tech, return a ton of youthful offensive talent. Georgia Tech brings back its ground game and even adds another potential homerun back for 2009. North Carolina’s Butch Davis continues to stockpile talent while the rivals down in Durham welcome back a talented quarterback and a coach that knows how to get the most out of his offense. Even Virginia, with the return of Jameel Sewell and a shift to, you guessed it, a spread attack, has us at least willing to look towards Charlottesville for a draft day sleeper or two. The ACC Coastal is far from a fantasy treasure trove, but the astute drafter can find plenty of diamonds in the rough here. ..Full Article |
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Senior Bowl Notebook
01/31/2009
Mobile, Alabama last week played host to the Under Armour Senior Bowl and CFFI was there to evaluate the nation’s top collegiate seniors as they received their first taste of the NFL. Coaching the former collegians were the staffs from the Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars. Photo courtesy of Jason Roberts...Full Article |
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Recruiting Primer
01/28/2009
With the 2008 season in the rearview mirror, we are knee deep in our recruiting evaluations. National signing day (Feb. 4th) is quickly approaching and soon enough we’ll be welcoming in a whole new class of players...Full Article |
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2009 Look Ahead: Big East
01/25/2009
I’ll admit it…even though I love both college football and college fantasy football I often have a hard time getting fired up about the Big East. Maybe it’s because I don’t like games on Friday night, an evening that should be reserved for watching high school football and packing the car for the Saturday tailgating extravaganza. Maybe part of it stems from the uninspired offensive play calling that afflicts many teams from this conference. I don’t know. I do know that the football fan in me has a great deal of respect for the likes of Kelly, Schiano, Leavitt and Edsall, gentlemen who have energized programs and taken them to surprising heights. But the fantasy dweeb in me just wishes the majority of teams would open things up a little bit. Yes, they’ll be some legitimate fantasy talent in the Big East in 2009, but on draft day the fantasy owner will want to treat the Big East like Tijuana: it’s okay to visit but live there and you’ll likely be dead in the water. ..Full Article |
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Initial 2009 Player Rankings
01/24/2009
As some have already noticed, our initial 2009 player rankings are up. We'll be adding in freshman and the sleepers Brian dreams up, as we go. So stick around, we have seven months to tweak, massage and in some cases take a sledgehammer to these rankings before the season starts...Full Article |
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Final 2009 NFL Early Entry List
01/21/2009
The dust has settled on 2009 NFL early entries. It is time to catch up on the whirlwind of activity that's taken place over the last few weeks. Comparing our list with the one released on NFL.com, there are a few notables...Full Article |
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2009 Look Ahead: Pac-10
01/18/2009
Summer of 2008 saw the Pac-10 looking to find replacements for its top three rushers from the season before. Justin Forsett, Jonathan Stewart, and Yvenson Bernard all left huge voids, but each team had different ways to combat these losses back in August. Cal knew it had the talented Jahvid Best ready to emerge as the number one back, but he had serious injury concerns. Oregon’s Jeremiah Johnson would have to overcome some injury history of his own, and there was a chance he’d have to share carries with a talented JUCO in LeGarrette Blount. Oregon State’s carries were wide open. We were certain that someone would emerge, and Ryan McCants seemed like a decent bet. Then he struggled in the opener and a freshman named Jacquizz Rodgers took the gig and didn’t look back. And suddenly the leader of a new bumper crop of running backs had arrived...Full Article |
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HOF Inductee: Brock Forsey
01/15/2009
Many believe Ian Johnson is the face of Boise State football, and this is with good reason. His touchdown and ensuing marriage proposal following the Broncos’ classic win over Oklahoma will forever be entrenched not only in the minds of the BSU faithful, but college football fans (and sappy women) nationwide. And a great number, especially those with memories that only go back about five years, believe Mr. Johnson to be the only legendary fantasy back to ever run around the blue turf. And these people are woefully misinformed. On December 31, 1999, the day before the world was tossed into the chaos of Y2K, a freshman running back named Brock Forsey ran for 152 yards, and this kicked off a career for the ages. ..Full Article |
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2009 Look Ahead: Big Ten
01/11/2009
Though I’m not a huge fan of piling on, or kicking someone or something when down, it is abundantly clear the in addition to struggling to maintain its status among the BCS elite, the Big Ten football conference also failed to produce a great number of fantasy stars in 2008. For every Javon Ringer and Shonn Greene there were many players (Curtis Painter, Kellen Lewis, Greg Orton) that failed to meet expectations. And with the departures of Chris Wells, Greene, Ringer and Kory Sheets there will be a dearth of running back star power in 2009. Of course, not all hope is lost; and as we’ve emphasized time and time again, when a star leaves a gaping hole in an offensive unit there’s always a hungry whippersnapper ready to step in and seize the day. ..Full Article |
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First Look: Top 25 for 2009
01/06/2009
2008/09 is in the books, and like you we just can't let go. For the college fantasy football diehards, it has become an addiction, one that lasts year round. So while memories of sipping from the Championship cup or sulking over crushing defeats are still fresh in our minds, we kick off 2009 with our preliminary Top 25 quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers as well as our Top 10 tight ends and kickers. We’ve also thrown in a few bonus players, sleepers and bubble boys at the end. ..Full Article |
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Recruiting: All-American Bowl highlights
01/05/2009
Sunday night CFFI was fortunate enough to scrutinize the future of collegiate football, as the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida played host to the Under Armour All-American High School Game for the second-straight year. A virtual showcase of the nation’s most highly-touted high school players comprising the incoming recruiting classes of 2009, Sunday’s contest (televised on ESPN/ESPNU) featured plenty of youthful speed, athleticism, and agility, this as the White Team, coached by ex-NFL head coach Marv Levy, outlasted the Black Team, coached by Mike White of Illinois, Cal, and Oakland Raiders fame, in a hard-fought four-quarter matchup, 27-16...Full Article |
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Recruiting: All-American Bowls
12/29/2008
College bowl games are in full swing, and before you know it we’ll be crowning a new National Champion. And sadly that will signal the end of college football games for a painfully long eight months. But there is still plenty of work to be done, and there are just enough college football nuggets to keep us entertained.
We are entering the stretch run of the recruiting season. National signing day is February 4th. Over the next several weeks we’ll be evaluating recruiting video and looking at team rosters with the goal of identifying great fantasy fits for these talented incoming freshman...Full Article |
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Holiday bailout packages and stocking stuffers
12/23/2008
Tis the season for giving and all that good stuff, right? Whether it is our government giving out hundreds of billions with no strings, tens of billions in loans with more strings than the inside of a baseball, or regular Americans giving gifts to their loved ones, nothing says giving or the holidays more than money and material possessions. And as proud Americans we’re going to do our part. With a whole bunch of IOU’s (that’s as good as money, sir) as payment we’re going to offer some presents to some of the more prominent national college football players and programs...Full Article |
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2009 Bowl Primer: Your Fantasy Guide
12/17/2008
Maybe it’s the stress that accompanies typical activities of the holiday season: shopping, seeing family that you, with good reason, only see once a year, the work Christmas party, and apologizing to the boss the day after the Christmas party. Whatever the reason, it’s clear that owners, neglecting the truly important stuff of the holiday season, often don’t spend enough time looking at intangibles before making out their bowl game lineups. After all it’s easy to simply stare at the bowl game slate and treat these games just as one would a regular season contest. These players perform for the same teams that have played more than 12 games, so it should be easier to fill out those lineups, right? Wrong. ..Full Article |
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HOF Inductee: Brad Smith
12/15/2008
I’m sure there are some young pups out there that wonder if Missouri even had a quarterback prior to Chase Daniel. And even to more seasoned college football fans it must seem like #10 has been dealing for the Tigers for about eight years, and this is due in part to the fact that Daniel saw action in ten games as a freshman. How soon we forget. Back in 2005 Missouri played Daniel to help plan for the coming departure of their record-setting quarterback.
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It's Bowl Time!
12/09/2008
Establishing our bowl game player ranks takes many of the same factors as the regular season rankings into account: offensive strengths and weaknesses vs. defensive strengths and weaknesses, how a team finished the regular season, offensive tendencies, and even location, location, location. And subsequently, location plays a role in a bowl game component often overlooked: motivation. How much a player and his team are fired up about that trip to (insert fabulous bowl destination here) plays a huge role in bowl game performance. ..Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week 15
12/07/2008
There’s something really anticlimactic about the way the greatest regular season in sports comes to an end. Sixteen games, with many one-sided affairs due to teams simply playing out the string, is a stark contrast to the many heart-pounding thrillers that made up a typical 2009 college football Saturday. And even when an individual performance makes news this late in the college fantasy football year, it’s often done when an owner’s season has already concluded. So performances like Jahvid Best’s incredible 16.4 yards per carry on his way to 311 yards and four scores or Mike Teel’s seven touchdown passes often leave their owners bitter, cursing the horrific timing of each. ..Full Article |
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Not a College Football Fantasy: Coaching Cronyism
12/05/2008
A recent press release by The Black Coaches Association stated “there are now only four African-Americans, a Latino and a Pacific Islander as head football coaches in the FBS.” And considering the recent trend of promoting key assistants as “coaches in waiting” at schools like Florida State, Texas and Oregon (three of the most coveted head coaching jobs in the entire country) it doesn’t appear like many schools are concerned with going through a search process to seriously consider minority candidates. Of course if they did there likely wouldn’t be too many coaches of color to choose from at the assistant level, as it appears that an obscene number of coaches are related to some of the most prominent head coaches in the land. Thus the Black Coaches Association may be left with one answer in their quest to increase the number of African-American coaches in the country: Demand that Randy Shannon, Turner Gill and Kevin Sumlin hire all of their relatives and/or have a ton of kids. ..Full Article |
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Early Entry Watch List
12/02/2008
We’ve reached the time of year when the top underclassmen in the country are bombarded with questions on whether they will declare early for the NFL draft or stick around for another year. For those that still have conference championship games to be played or bowl games to prepare for we can expect the politically correct “I’m not thinking about that right now” answer. For others with nothing left to play for, we could start seeing the 2009 NFL draft and eventually the 2009 college (fantasy) football season take an early shape. ..Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week 14
12/01/2008
In 2006 James Casey retired from professional baseball. He was 22 and had spent the previous three years trying to climb beyond the Rookie League of the Chicago White Sox before he was let go. So, his baseball career done, Casey decided to give college a try, and he thought he might like to play a little football while matriculating. The native of Azle, Texas had Rice on his list of destinations and the Owl coaching staff eventually found out about Casey. And they decided to give him a shot. Yesterday, at the ripe old age of 24 James Casey put the lid on a sophomore campaign for the record books, as he caught 12 balls for 172 yards and three touchdowns. And he ran for a score. And he threw a touchdown. And when the victory over Houston was complete James Casey went home to his wife to celebrate a season that saw him account for an incredible 20 scores...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Festive Holiday Edition
11/26/2008
Years ago the BCS claimed that it was doing away with margin of victory, and good sports reveled in the apparent elimination of 60-point victories. After all, it was bad enough to schedule a bunch of lousy teams, but it was even worse to embarrass a bunch of overmatched players. Now, with the craziness that is the Big XII tiebreaker formula (highest BCS standing) we have some scary offensive units likely having carte blanche to run up the score. And while Oklahoma State has the horses and home crowd to hang with their in-state rival, don’t expect the Sooners to take their foot off the gas should they start rolling. And things could be really, really bad for Texas A&M and Baylor, but really, really good for owners of Texas and Texas Tech offensive stars...Full Article |
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HOF Inductee: Pat White
11/24/2008
While it may seem strange to induct someone into the Hall of Fame before his collegiate career is over, we saw no more fitting of a way to bring back our HOF inductions than with someone who recently broke Brad Smith's all-time rushing record for a quarterback...Full Article |
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A Second Look
11/24/2008
The conclusion of the college fantasy football regular season corresponds with the onset of holiday hype. Men wearing funny suits distribute bowl bids, and then a man in his own funny suit distributes presents. And while each gift giver is old, beloved and likely tipsy when he hands out his offering, each is welcomed with open arms. Of course even though each team’s original wish list included a BCS bowl, and my list always includes a condo in Grand Cayman, we are nonetheless pleased when something nice is given, even if it isn’t the perfect present. ..Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week 14
11/23/2008
If your league's playoffs are still rolling and you’ve made it this far, odds are you don’t need my help. You’ve got it figured out. But it never hurts to check out the options available on the waiver wire. Especially with many schools ending their season last week, potentially creating holes in your lineup...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week 13
11/20/2008
For many leagues week 13 marks the culmination: thousands of company man hours wasted, family members ignored, MAC games studied with a fervor you didn’t think you had in you. You’ve invested your dogs, brauts and beers into the blood, sweat and tears of college-aged footballers, and now you’re ready to hoist a championship trophy. ..Full Article |
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Player Rankings: Week 13
11/18/2008
Once again we find ourselves with an impact game on a Tuesday night, with Northern Illinois taking on Kent State. With that, here is a sneak peek at the rankings that will be released tomorrow...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week 13
11/17/2008
It was elimination Saturday for most of us. Win and move on. Lose and curse your league’s scoring rules or playoff tiebreakers. With the help of some foresight from Brian McDonald, I was lucky enough to have Case Keenum on my roster on a day when I needed him most...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Twelve
11/15/2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008 was beginning to look like the fantasy dud we feared it would be. Sloppy conditions, conservative play calling and uninspiring performances appeared in cahoots, with the collective goal of turning fantasy playoff battles into defensive slugfests. Owners, many who had entered battle on Saturday with their superstar sitting on his couch and eating Cheetos in places like Norman, Lubbock and East Lansing, were forced to live and die with every scoring chance, uncertain of how many would remain in the day. And then, as daylight turned into darkness, fantasy stars seized the opportunity, and playoff outcomes changed drastically. And a week that had failed to live up to the high expectations set by a season of colossal clashes, concluded with some great individual performances as the clock moved towards midnight...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week Twelve
11/12/2008
You were well aware but willing to overlook it back in August. It was a risk you were ready to take, because it was only one week, even if the bye would fall right smack in the middle of the playoffs. After all, the chance to nab a Graham Harrell, Sam Bradford, DeMarco Murray, Javon Ringer or Michael Crabtree was too much to pass up, and someone, anyone, would emerge to plug the huge Week 12 gap in your lineup. Now, following a season of fantasy success, you’re suddenly staring at a very tense Saturday without the services of your fantasy star, the player that has carried you to this point. And while college football fans lament a Saturday lacking in primetime matchups that have dominated recent headlines, college fantasy football fans are gearing up for the biggest week of the season. ..Full Article |
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Player Rankings: Week Twelve
11/11/2008
We are feverishly working to finalize our player rankings for week twelve before the 7pm ET kick of the Ball State-Miami (Ohio) game. Preparing rankings on a compressed time frame has its limitations. So while we are checking injury reports, compiling rankings and sifting through coach-speak, here is a sneak peak at where we have the Ball State players slotted this week...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week Twelve
11/10/2008
The college fantasy football Gods play a cruel joke on many of us for week twelve. For one it marks the playoffs for a majority of college fantasy football leagues. But it also marks a bye for some heavyweight fantasy players. So while your ecstatic to have made to the first round of the playoffs or better yet, the finals, you could also be fretting how you are going to replace Javon Ringer in your backfield.
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Saturday Rewind: Week 11
11/09/2008
If your league is anything like ours, a definite premium is placed on true freshmen. Our league’s official by-laws state that all drafted freshmen receive automatic keeper status for the following year. This means that once the dust from signing day clears, owners aren’t just doing research on the top national recruits; they’re also looking at under the radar guys that could fill a role in a productive offense, and this makes the early rounds of the draft much more unpredictable. Typically the majority of true freshmen grabbed early in the draft play running back. As we’ve mentioned time and time again, running back is a spot where coaches are more willing to overlook youthful mistakes in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle. And while the 2008 college football season has seen many young backs emerge as future stars, two studs stand above the rest. Oregon State’s Jacquizz Rodgers and Alabama’s Mark Ingram appear fully prepared to lead the next crop of great fantasy backs.
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Start or Sit: Week 11
11/05/2008
Saturday night, the biggest evening in Texas Tech’s football history, was even sweet for longtime fantasy owners. Ever since the great Mike Leach took over the program in 2000 the Red Raiders have been the New York Yankees, Manchester United, and Dallas Cowboys to college fantasy football, even if traditional college football fans only knew them as the school that scored lots of points and stuff. Their prolific offense has made this team the one to watch. Hell I know owners who ordered ESPN Gameplan specifically to watch Tech’s games. Fantasy dweebs won championship trophies on the arms and legs of Kliff Kingsbury, B.J. Symons, Wes Welker, Taurean Henderson and many others. The team’s games often mirrored pinball games rather than gridiron battles. And while it’s easy to dislike programs that win games 72-3, there have always been a couple of reasons to love the Red Raiders...Full Article |
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Player Rankings: Week Eleven
11/04/2008
With the college fantasy football regular season coming to a close for most, and the playoffs just starting for some, we once again get a jump on this week's player rankings in hopes to put you in the best position to win. Buffalo and James Starks kick off the fantasy action tonight, much like they did last Tuesday. We are then treated with games every night this week. Cherish it boys and girls, because soon it will be over, and we’ll be craving a Wednesday night game between Akron and Toledo...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week Eleven
11/03/2008
There’s a saying that goes along the lines of “dance with who brought you” and in life, this does seem like solid advice. However in the world of college fantasy football, the saying should be “dance with who gives you the best shot to advance.” A number of head-to-head leagues will kick off their playoffs this week, and total points leagues are nearing their end. And while it’s tempting to stick with the lineup that has gotten you to this point, owners must realize that there’s nothing wrong with sending one of your regular starters to the bench when a clearly better option is present...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Ten
11/01/2008
It’s easy, and it makes sense, to name the player that scores the most points the college fantasy football season MVP. To many, one of the most prominent strengths of the fantasy world is that intangibles are taken out of the equation; gutty locker room leaders don’t win fantasy championships. Stats rule, and that’s the nice and tidy way it is. Still, it’s hard to turn off the part of our college football brain that realizes what it takes for real teams to succeed, and we do like to overlook the ho-hum brilliance of Graham Harrell, and search for a true breakout player...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week 10
10/29/2008
By the time mid-July rolls around I’ve already written previews on hundreds of college football skill position players. I’ve studied losses to graduation and redshirts expected to emerge. I’ve studied coaching changes and anticipated schematic changes. And I’ve studied bye weeks and each team’s overall strength of schedule. However it’s right before the season kicks off that that I begin to look at the national schedule from a fan’s/fantasy owner’s perspective. And when I looked at my really big college football schedule, I put a big fat circle around Week 10...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Keeper Edition
10/29/2008
We’ve spent a lot of time the last few weeks trying to prepare the frontrunners for the playoffs. Now it is time to help out those whose season is over. Those that no matter how many times you run the permutations, you’ve been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
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Waiver Wire: Week Ten
10/26/2008
The deeper and deeper we get into the season, the less likely it is to find players that we haven't already discussed. However, with the fantasy playoff schedule just around the corner it is even more important to pinpoint a few players that are showing a high level availability. We do just that with this week's waiver wire list...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Nine
10/26/2008
When one tailgates satellite dish-free for five hours, sits in a large stadium where phone or internet service is a pipe dream, and then celebrates for a couple hours following the game, he feels a little disconnected from the rest of the college football world. When this fella then falls asleep with buffalo wings and a newly-opened Heineken on the hotel night stand next to him, he wakes up wondering just what happened in that Ohio State and Penn State game that he remembers tied at 3-3. He’s then able to shake off the cobwebs, drag his 33-year old bones out of the bed, accidentally wake up his better half, and saunter over to the laptop. And then a full Saturday of college football action is brought to life, even if it’s experienced a little later than usual...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week Nine
10/23/2008
You just know some things are going to happen. Michael J. Fox is going to make those free throws at the end of Teen Wolf. Frank Caliendo will eventually go away. And players like Chris Wells and Mark Sanchez will eventually explode. While we may occasionally wonder if the world has gone mad, things, be they in real life or the fantasy world, usually return to a sense of normalcy...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week Eight
10/19/2008
We typically include the waiver wire report in with the Saturday Rewind. However, nightmares of Terrelle Pryor stiff arms had Brian up at the crack of dawn this morning licking the wounds from the beating the Buckeyes put on our Spartans on Saturday. With the early edition of the Saturday Rewind we now follow-up with this week's waiver wire report...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Eight
10/19/2008
I’m not breaking new ground. I’m not saying anything that fantasy owners haven’t thought about in recent seasons. But as the 2008 college fantasy football season nears playoff time, it’s becoming crystal clear that a good quarterback performance simply isn’t good enough. 300 yards and three touchdown passes likely please the coach, pacify the alumni and provide for team victories. However these numbers will fail to placate those demanding fantasy owners.
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Week Eight Injury Report Podcast
10/17/2008
The week eight injury report podcast is up. A little later than usual, so hit the mute button on Corso and Herbie tomorrow morning for a spell and tune into our quick injury roundup...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week Eight
10/16/2008
As the leaves begin to change, and Octoberfest replaces Summer Ale as my tailgating refreshment of choice, the sense of dread that the college football regular season is half over begins to cause great personal distress. Sure last weekend saw Texas vs. Oklahoma, Mizzou vs. Okie State, LSU vs. Florida and countless other matchups with huge ramifications, both from a fantasy and rankings perspective. But as I returned from a great tailgate and game in Chicago to watch two of those great matchups on the tube, I couldn’t help but feel like I do as I near each birthday: that I just want to stop time for a little bit as the fun is just whizzing by too quickly. ..Full Article |
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Looking Ahead to the Playoffs
10/14/2008
Playoffs? Playoffs? You kidding me...Playoffs?
Nope, Jim, we're not kidding.
While some owners will gasp in horror when they stare down at the "bye" next to Sam Bradford's and Michael Crabtree's name in week 12 or Colt McCoy's name in week 13, not you. Whether it is picking up a couple of guys in free agency, swindling some unsuspecting owners or simply holding onto someone that is currently under performing; you'll have made the moves of a cagey championship-driven owner now instead of paying the price later...Full Article |
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Looking Ahead, BCS Leagues
10/13/2008
With weekly waiver wire becoming thinner and thinner as the season progresses, we take a bit of a detour this week and look at who can help you down the stretch and come playoff time. Kevin Albanese kicks things off with a look from a BCS perspective...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Seven
10/12/2008
No we have not forgotten about our Saturday Rewind or Waiver report. CFFinsider Brian McDonald is currently in recovery mode after running the Chicago marathon this afternoon. Yes, he is in a full blown midlife crisis. ..Full Article |
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Midseason Defensive Rankings
10/10/2008
We can see the finish line of this mini-marathon of midseason rankings. The only thing left are the defenses...the other side of the ball...the boys that bring home the championships...Full Article |
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Midseason Tight End Rankings
10/09/2008
Wrapping up the last of the skill positions, we take a look at the tight end spot. The top guys residing in the top spots will come as no surprise. Where this list may be especially helpful is picking out some options from the second level tight ends...Full Article |
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Midseason Kicker Rankings
10/09/2008
Looking for a kicker? Do you even know the name of your kicker? Heck I forgot we had a picture of a kicker in our database until today. Like me, you probably forget about that little guy unless he is on a bye week or misses a critical field goal to cost you a game...Full Article |
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Midseason Wide Receiver Rankings
10/08/2008
Moving right along, it’s time for a little 2nd half preview of our wide receivers. While the names Dillard, Crabtree, Maclin and Decker were placed atop our pre-season big board, we were a little uncertain of who would emerge at anticipated fantasy hotbeds like SMU, Tulsa and Houston. Some questions have been answered and many remain, but as the playoff drive officially begins, the wide receivers are fitting nicely into a few very distinct tiers. ..Full Article |
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Week Seven Player Rankings
10/07/2008
Week seven player rankings are up. Instead of our typical Sit or Start piece we will be continuing our midseason player rankings on Wednesday and Thursday...Full Article |
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Midseason Quarterback Rankings
10/07/2008
We continue on with our midseason rankings as we move on to the quarterback position. For a couple of years we’ve been speaking of a seismic shift in offensive powerhouses, and no where has this change become more crystal clear than at the quarterback spot. The top fantasy quarterbacks can no longer be found up and down the Pacific Coast Highway. If you’re looking for the top gunslingers you’ll want to spend some time on I-45 and I-20 before eventually making your way to the Red River. ..Full Article |
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Midseason Running Back Rankings
10/06/2008
We are coming up to week seven of the college fantasy football season. The midway point, the time when wins and losses are even more important as we all jockey for playoff positioning. ..Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Six
10/05/2008
It’s almost as if Mike Leach and Graham Harrell looked at each other and said let’s show them how this is done, went out and took it to Kansas State, and in doing so made a little statement of their own. After seeing the Heisman-worthy beginnings from Chase Daniel, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford, the program that intoduced all this crazy spread em out and wing it around stuff to the Big Twelve put on the type of air show we’ve been waiting for in 2008.
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Start or Sit: Week Six
10/02/2008
With geeks on my brain, my mind started to wander, and I began to dream of a day when we fantasy guys weren’t laughed at when we took our stat sheets to the bar. I started to think about what would happen if we grabbed our camcorders, some warm cases of Busch Light and 80 SPF and took to the road with College Fantasy Football Gameday, presented by Dungeons and Dragons.
No doubt we’d be in Tulsa, Oklahoma for this week’s epic offensive showdown between the Rice Owls and Tulsa Golden Hurricanes. For fantasy guys, this week’s clash between these defensively challenged squads in this year’s version of the fantasy game of the century. ..Full Article |
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Models of Consistency
09/30/2008
Until now we’ve largely relied on past performance and offseason notes to predict early season fantasy production. With five weeks in the books we can really start to hone in on who is getting it done every week. Sure we could scan down the season totals, and we’d have a pretty good idea. But those numbers will always be skewed by the games put up by the likes of Navy’s Shun White in week one. ..Full Article |
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Heisman Insider
09/29/2008
Even though it’s only week four, Chase Daniel must’ve felt like he posted a great number before the wind and rains came, affording him the opportunity to sit in the clubhouse and watch while others saw their Heisman hopes take a serious hit. The chaos kicked off in Corvallis, and it didn’t stop until Knowshon was left watching the Tide take the remaining air out of Sanford Stadium. What’s left from the storm is the likelihood that the winner will emerge from the Big XII, though if we’re learning anything it’s that there are no certainties in this year’s race...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Five
09/28/2008
Even in the midst of yet another spine-tingling college football season it’s hard not to look at recruiting, either a peek at who’s coming in to hopefully provide help next season, or to look back a few years after a class is signed. Because many members of the class of 2005 are in midst of their senior campaigns, it’s fascinating to see what happened to many of that year’s Rivals100...Full Article |
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The Play Clock and You
09/26/2008
I just can’t let it go. You can ask my wife, once I get something in my head it is stuck there until I’ve either had that magical revelation or completely hammered it to death. When it comes to the 2008 play clock and its impact on the amount of plays per game, I think the Red Sea just parted…Moses-style. ..Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week Five
09/23/2008
It’s normally when a tailgate is about four hours old that we truly begin to delve into the world’s issues. The hours prior are spent dealing with issues less pertinent (the spicy bloody mary mix is soo much better boys) to the overall improvement of mankind, however these discussions usually lay some kind of foundation for earth-shattering analysis. Last Saturday, at about 2:30 EST the term “accountability” came into play, and it’s with a newfound vim and vigor in mind that we kick off our week five player rankings...Full Article |
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Heisman Insider: Week Four
09/22/2008
There are a few things cause me great annoyance: traffic, people who still write checks at the grocery store, and the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Every year, when the last undefeated NFL team is knocked off (which I believe normally occurs in week two) a bunch of grumpy old football players get together to toast the fact that they still get attention, and that their record will remain for at least another year. ..Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind: Week Four
09/21/2008
We’re four weeks in, and while injury troubles are beginning to attack fantasy rosters, we’re also at a point where statistical tendencies are beginning to emerge. These tendencies provide at least some precursor of future performance, and certainly help owners make some waiver moves to deal with the aforementioned injuries. And we know, you data-driven geeks give much more credibility to past performance than our “gut-feelings”. When owners have some trends at their disposal there’s a little less stress in deciding on a lineup, and you’ll at least feel a little better about yourself when the inevitable unpredictable madness transpires on Saturday...Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week Four
09/16/2008
UConn’s Donald Brown is the big story of Week Four’s version of Start or Sit. The talented back from New Jersey spent three weeks on the sleeper start list. Following an incredible start to the 2008 campaign, and thanks to a game with defensively challenged Baylor, Donald Brown has not only broken free from the list of sleepers, he has been catapulted to the top spot of the College Fantasy Football Insider Weekly Player Rankings. Donald, it looks like you’ve made it.
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Heisman Watch
09/14/2008
One might think that we, as college fantasy, i.e. stat guys, would despise the Heisman Trophy. After all, this award is often based more on exposure than performance, and rarely does the top statistical producer win college football’s most prestigious award. Yet we get caught up in Heisman fever along with every other college football soul. It’s just too much fun to resist.
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Saturday Rewind: Week Three
09/13/2008
The bad weather notwithstanding, September 13, 2008 was an outstanding day for college (fantasy) fans. At one point late in the afternoon we had Spurrier trying to will a win over the 2nd ranked Bulldogs, Purdue letting one get away against Jeremiah and Blount Force Trauma, and an intriguing Battle of the Techs: Virginia and Georgia. Hell even those stuck in the Bo and Lou era had the slopfest in Notre Dame at their disposal.
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Injury Report Podie
09/12/2008
Kicking off a new feature here on the CFFinsider, we bring you this week's injury report podcast. Look for various other podcasts in the future as well. We are going to try to keep them short and sweet; the first one ran longer than planned (6 minutes) but we'll tighten it up as the season goes on. Feel free to give us some feedback on what you want to hear.
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Start or Sit: Week Three
09/10/2008
Following what many would deem a lackluster week two slate of games, the third week of the 2008 college football campaign promises to provide great games/fantasy matchups, starting at 12:00 EST, and continuing long into the evening. Sure we have the great traditional matchups: USC vs. Ohio State, Fresno State vs. Wisconsin, Oklahoma vs. Washington, BYU vs. UCLA, and Purdue vs. Oregon. However fantasy owners realize that the big games don’t deal solely with ranked teams.
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Week Three Player Rankings
09/10/2008
Week three player rankings are up, click on the "player rankings" tab at the top of the page or "Week Three Player Rankings" link on the main page...Full Article |
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Waiver Wire: Week Three
09/07/2008
Sitting at 0-2 or already more than 100 points behind, some of you are in full-blown panic mode. It’s understandable as you spent hundreds of man hours at the office prepping for season, and now you see all of that hard work going up in smoke. All hope, however, is not lost. It’s early enough to make changes. You simply need to nab a few reinforcements to assist with the cause.
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Saturday Rewind: Week Two
09/07/2008
Two weeks into the college football season and a few trends are starting to appear. Consider the fever pitch of 2007 scoring comparable to the crazy housing boom of the last ten years…gone. We are back to old school college fantasy football. Gone is the magical season where everyone’s quarterback and running backs went off for four or five scores, and fantasy shootouts were the norm. Instead we are left with grind it out weeks where you hope your stud wide receiver or running back simply puts one on the board.
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Start or Sit: Week Two
09/03/2008
Week two cannot be as wild and crazy as week one...can it? Tebow and Crabtree have to blow up...don't they? While we certainly see a little more production from the fantasy superstars, there are no guarantees...Full Article |
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Week Two Player Rankings
09/03/2008
All right boys and girls, we have officially gotten through the preseason to season changeover on the site. So what the heck does that mean to you? Well first off, we have a lot more time on our hands. And secondly, weekly player rankings will once again be posted on the player rankings page...Full Article |
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Saturday Rewind / Waiver Report
08/31/2008
Week One, save for a handful of tilts today and tomorrow, is in the books, and half of you are probably thinking championship and the other half are probably in full blown panic mode. While it's understandable that you're a tad concerned about the performance of your top picks, remember that each is a top pick for a reason, usually because he's done it before. And he'll likely do it again. ..Full Article |
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Start or Sit: Week One
08/24/2008
Week One’s Version of the Start or Sit is by far the most difficult to compile. Certainly we have a clue as to who will put up big numbers, but our rankings attempt to take into account the fact that many national stars will be blowing kisses to their girlfriends and making post game plans as early as the second quarter. For every anticipated fantasy shootout, like SMU and Rice, there are ten games that have blowout written all over them...Full Article |
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Summer Cram Session: Wide Receivers
08/21/2008
We wrap up our brief look at freshmen who have stood out in camp with a brief look at wide receivers, and even a couple of tight ends. While many drafters are plotting last-minute draft strategy, those that have already had their evening o' fun may want to file these names away as waiver options for when the inevitable injury bug strikes...Full Article |
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Still More Sleeper Slop
08/19/2008
Everyone is looking for sleepers. Hey, who’s your sleeper? Got a sleeper for me? Who’s going to be the sleeper player on the sleeper team in the sleeper college town..Full Article |
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Freshman Cram Session: Running Backs
08/19/2008
Quarterbacks need to pick up the system and adjust to the speed of the game. Wide receivers need to learn their routes, deal with physical defensive backs and may be asked to block for the first time in their careers. Running backs need to gain yards...Full Article |
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Freshman Cram Session: Quarterbacks
08/17/2008
Hard to believe that summer camp is winding down. The weekend of August 31st seemed a long way off back on signing day, and after all the talk and practice reports, we have a better idea of what type of impact the high school class of 2008 will have on teams across the country. In a three-part series we now take a look at those players we expect to make an immediate impact. While these guys are drafted with the future in mind, some will pay immediate dividends. We start with the quarterbacks. ..Full Article |
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ADP Report 8/14/08 (Part I)
08/14/2008
With numerous college fantasy football drafts sure to kick-off this weekend we once again check in with our friends from U-Sports for this weeks ADP (average draft position) report...Full Article |
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