Given their two-year suspension from post-season competition and reduced scholarships, current junior and senior USC Trojans get a transfer waiver and can play the 2010 season. Pac Ten tries valiantly to usurp the waiver while simultaneously taking over college football west of the Mississippi River, so stay tuned. Some big names here, likely the biggest for recruitniks is Marc Tyler.

Keep your eyes open for movement here to help your fantasy team – all would appreciate your comments if you see one of these guys enrolling elsewhere:

Here’s a quick list of everyone eligible for their new school for 2010, at ranking them by expected impact. Stay tuned as the pre-season moves on.

Robert Marve at 2010 Purdue Spring Game

QB

1. Willy Korn, QB, Marshall (by way of Clemson)
2. Robert Marve, QB, Purdue (by way of Miami) (right)
3. Steven Threet, QB, Arizona State (by way of Michigan)
4. JJ McDermott, QB, SMU (by way of New Mexico State)
5. Corbin Louks, QB, Nevada (by way of Utah)
6. Cannon Smith, QB, Memphis (by way of Miami)
7. Clay Belton, QB, Maryland (by way of Miami,OH)
8. M.J. McPeek, QB, Colorado State (by way of Kansas State)
9. Chris Harper, QB/WR, Kansas State (by way of Oregon)
10. L.D. Crow, QB, UCF (by way of Stanford)
11. Phillip Bates, QB, Ohio (by way of Iowa State)
12. Wesley Carroll, QB, Florida International (by way of Mississippi State)
13. Taylor Cook, QB, Rice (by way of Miami)

RB

1. Lennon Creer, RB, Louisiana Tech (by way of Tennessee)
2. Sam McGuffie, RB, Rice (by way of Michigan)
3. Raymond Carter, RB, Colorado State (by way of UCLA)
4. Aundre Dean, RB, TCU (by way of UCLA)
5. Cameron Bell, RB, Northern Illinois (by way of Iowa State)

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Three months until kickoff means three things around the FCB virtual office – that crazy NCAA Project freshmen draft starts soon, we finish up invites to the industries expert league FCFI, and mock draft time. In a year when I plan to pull back on my duties around here (more on that later), I am oddly more prepared at this early point than ever before. So with some quiet time in my schedule I want to get y’all up to date on my early thoughts on the upcoming college fantasy football season.

First off in this mini-series will be a quick thought stream on my picks in the Athlon Sports 2010 College Fantasy Football Mock Draft .

Vince’s strategy session

As the industry moves more to a 2QB starting lineup for all-FBS leagues, so has the Athlon Mock Draft. This format puts more of a value on QBs since twice as many are in play – a direct opposition to the time-tested FCB stance that you should not pick a QB until the rest of your starting lineup is filled. The rest of the lineup format was 3RB, 3WR, 1each Flex, TE, K, D. 18 rounds, twelve experts. Go!

Round One, pick 9 – Kendall Hunter, RB Oklahoma State

With Steve Lassan grabbing the Quiz and Drew taking my pre-season #1 overall Shane Vereen of Cal, I will admit to some homerism on this pick but it is still justified. New OC is Dana Holgerson of Texas Tech and Houston fame, so expect a very open spread offense with lots yardage production. Kendall Hunter is by far the most experienced and talented known quantity of the returning offensive Cowboys, of which there are only four. Hunter has ball skills for the passing game also, so I can see him performing very similar to a 2009 Charles Sims (1300 yfs) of Houston but better. Risk? Pretty green O-line. I thought it was too early for the top WR to come off the board, so I gathered Hunter (right, IconSMI).

Round Two, pick 16 – Blaine Gabbert, QB Missouri

System pick but with the added value that Gabbert showed remarkable grit playing hurt last year. I am expecting Chase Daniel like numbers this year from Gabbert.

Round Three, pick 33 – Titus Young, WR Boise State

Drew again grabbed my target DeAndre Brown, but I am very happy going to the blue turf grabbing Kellen Moore’s favorite target. Many stars align for Boise this year as they return all but one of the offensive starters from last year’s amazing unit – I can see 40+ TDs from Moore, so at least 15 should go to Young.

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