As we get closer to the start of the 2009 college football season…just over three months away…it is never too early to talk about the top signal-callers heading into the new season.

Will one, or both, of the past two Heisman Trophy winners (Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford) continue to pile up stats?  Will a less-familiar name (Houston QB Case Keenum…pictured…photo, thanks IconSports) shake up the college football and fantasy establishment?  Will your humble fantasy analyst look like a genius again…or just smart?

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Five new head coaches were named following the conclusion of the regular season. At Ball State, Stan Parrish was promoted from offensive coordinator. Four other schools went outside the program – Toledo (Tim Beckman), Eastern Michigan (Ron English), Miami (Mike Haywood), and Bowling Green (Dave Clawson) – to make changes.

This marks the most head coaching changes in the MAC since 2005 when Akron, UCF (now in conference USA), Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and Kent State hired new leaders for their respective programs. Read the rest of this entry →

If you have been around this site for any length of time (esp. back to the pre-Blogger custom made website abomination of 2005) you know that we prefer deductive reasoning – have an opinion, then gather the data and crunch the numbers in order to determine if your opinion is worth a crap.

Graham Harrell leaves Texas Tech after three years as starting QB, but the program will live on.

Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. That is life my friends.

One thing I have found to work very well is the “Dynasty Study” which looks at three variables that mean the most to fantasy college football and see which schools and/or coaches consistently produce top-shelf offensive output.

Total offensive TDs, Yards per play and yards per game are scraped from the NCAA website, each variable is ranked one through 120.

Lots of numbers and the offenses to watch in 2009 after the jump.

Last month I looked only at the 2008 data and today I am looking at the three-year period of 2006 through 2008 to get a bigger picture look at what schools you should focus on for your fantasy research. I created two different scores – RAW means that each year’s results have an equal weight in the calcualtion (simple average) and a WEIGHTED score that gives added gravity to recent years (exponential or weighted moving average). I thought it would also be interesting to see how much RAW and WEIGHTED differed and found it gave me a momentum measurement – I highlighted the postive momentum in green and the negative momentum in red.
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I was reminded of MapGameDay.com by Joe Bires Twitter post (follow me here) that allows you to record and share all the great hallowed halls of college football that you have visited.

Or tailgated at. Or ogled female coeds between Pabst Blue Ribbon guzzles (you dirty old man).

I would love to have a contest for the most stadiums visited, but no way it could ever be verified! Regardless, I trust you can post yours in the comment field with your best road trip story?

Here is my map – they call me a globe trotter, but I know Freer has been to about 50 stadiums. Dude must be extraterrestrial.

In looking at the 2009 crop of MAC QBs, nine league schools return their starter and some schools (Miami and Ohio) include competition among returning players.

Nick is the MAC-daddy from VandelaySports.com. To follow is a school-by-school post-spring breakdown:

Chris Jacquemain leads Akron to a new season in a new stadium (Icon SMI).

MAC EAST

• Akron – Chris Jacquemain (senior) returns (231-399 for 2,748 yards, 20 TDs, 14 interceptions), 10 of his 14 interceptions come in three games (4 versus Ball State, 3 versus Kent State and 3 versus Temple). In the other nine games he totaled 17 TD passes and four interceptions.
• Bowling Green – Tyler Sheehan (senior) returns for his third season as a starter (267-400 for 2,610 yards, 20 TDs, 9 interceptions). His 66.8 pass completion percentage rate led the conference.
• Buffalo – Zach Maynard (sophomore) is the leading candidate to replace four-year starter Drew Willy. Maynard completed 1-3 attempts for 7 yards last season. Willy had numbers of 304-486 for 3,304 yards, 25 TDs and just six interceptions.

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