It is already the eighth week of the 2010 college football season, and many of you are prepping for the run to your league’s fantasy playoffs…or finishing the final weeks of a lame season.

Still, everyone prefers to win…so you need a good QB.  Or, a seviceable one, if your top fantasy QB is off this week….and many top QBs are off on Week Eight.

This development means that some QBs who may not normally see regular action on fantasy teams are getting their shot at starting this week.  Others, like Texas A&M QB Jerrod Johnson, become one of the best plays of the week. Read the rest of this entry →

In the “Duel of the top SEC QBs” from this past Saturday, one of them lived up to the top billing.

Auburn QB Cameron Newton out-dueled Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett (who left the game in the second quarter with an injury) in the Tigers 65-43 win over the Razorbacks at Auburn, Alabama.  And, in doing so, Cameron Newton wins our Fantasy College Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for Week Seven….Newton’s second FCB-FPOTY win of the season.

Newton (running with football…photo, thanks AP/Butch Dili), a junior from Atlanta, GA (Westlake HS), rushed for 205 yards and 3 TDs, while throwing for 140 yards and a TD.

Each week, I try to select one QB who will break-out…a QB who either has a favorable opponent matchup, or, is just “due” to explode.

Even better…finding that one QB who may be capable to do both.

This week, Oklahoma QB Landry Jones (photo, thanks Scout.com), is the QB with a nice matchup who is due to really “explode”.

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Nebraska has had some great running/option QBs over its history, but, their recent discovery just may obliterate all the records and legendary games of his predecessors.

Huskers QB Taylor Martinez (photo, thanks HuskerExtra.com) is our Fantasy College Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for Week Six.

Martinez, a redshirt-freshman from Corona, CA (Centennial HS), ran for 241 yards and 4 TDs, passed for another TD, and had 368 yards total offense in Nebraska’s 48-13 win at Kansas State on Thursday night.

Nothing troubles a fantasy owner more than one of their star players and his team having a “week off”.  With the current set-up of 12 regular season games in 14 weeks by the NCAA FBS schools, there will be at least one week off for every FBS member.

However, some schools will have a week off….even as they play that week.  Witness the Oregon Ducks, who play Washington State this coming Saturday.  Their week off is scheduled for the following week (October 16), but, with a game at hapless Washington State this weekend, QB Darron Thomas (photo, thanks OregonLive.com) and his Ducks are probably going to have a lighter week preparing for the total destruction of the Pac-10 doormat Cougars.  Heck, Oregon’s toughest challenge will be choosing which far-out uniforms they will wear for the game. Read the rest of this entry →