It has been a crazy few weeks as I took the plunge into marriage with our wedding last week. I drove over 3,000 miles in a week between driving to Connecticut for the wedding and then taking the scenic route back to Florida. We made stops in Boston, DC, Asheville and finally Savannah. It was my first time visiting Asheville and I am now a huge fan of that city. Yeah, yeah, yeah (great band btw), I know what you are thinking…that’s sweet, let’s get to the football already. Fair enough, here are some of my thoughts and observations on football…most of it is fantasy college focused but who knows, I might even throw in some real college football and heck maybe even pro football topics since I’m now crazy hitched.
- In year’s past, I have always felt that LSU was a bit over-rated, even when they won national championships in 2003 and 2007. Not saying they didn’t deserve it, just felt they weren’t the best team in the country. With that said, I love this year’s LSU team and based on what I have seen thus far, it’s the most talented team in the country. Will that translate into a NC, well who knows, that is why they play the games. Read the rest of this entry →
QB Bryant Moniz is wondering: WRs, WRs....where fore art thou WRs??? (Icon SMI)
We are now heading into Week 4 of the fantasy college football season. Sometimes it is easy to forget that football games are actually even being played with the news being dominated by conference realignment…more often than not just hearsay. I am going to share some of my observations, opinions, and recommendations on this year’s fantasy college football season and may even throw in some non-fantasy thoughts if the mood strikes me. So here goes…
One of the great things about the college version of fantasy football is that the season is quick and to the point. There is no suffering through 5 months of disappointing players on your team like with the Pro game. Worse, sometimes it feels like a full year has passed if you play fantasy baseball. In this game, you have a bad draft or suffer some injuries, your pain is over before you know it.
Through three games, Hawaii QB Bryant Moniz only has 4 passing TDs. This is the first time in a long while that Hawaii doesn’t look like they will be able to reload at WR. Oddly enough, Moniz is doing everything he can to help his fantasy owners out with 4 rushing TDs. This week against UC Davis should be the game the Warriors remind everyone why they are fantasy gold…if they don’t then it is time to seriously jump ship. Read the rest of this entry →
Drew Smith, Chief Fantasy Officer, shares his views on the future of college football as the top programs in the sport continue to dance with each other to align new superpower conference affiliations.
Monday night I had the privilege of participating in the largest existing expert draft for fantasy college football. The league is packed with the industry’s top minds and I was eager to make up for a disappointing showing last year. I had the ironic luck of drawing the 1st pick overall this season after having the last pick in the 2010 draft. First pick overall, Case Keenum no brainer right? Not so fast! As many readers know, my general draft strategy is to bypass drafting quarterbacks early so picking 1st with someone like Keenum out there proved to be quite the dilemma.
My overall strategy going into this draft was to draft a solid foundation early and then go after pure upside in the late rounds. If choosing between a WR who I feel strongly will get 50 catches, 800 yards and 7 TDs with little chance of doing better and a WR who I might waive Week 2 but has the chance to be a Top 20 player…I planned on taking the pure upside guy. Because I had the first pick, I am going to group my back-to-back picks together because technically I picked them together, not in different rounds.
1.1) LaMichael James, RB, Oregon
I might have been the first person in draft history to use their full 2-minutes on the draft clock to make the first pick in the draft but it was an internal struggle between the consensus #1 pick and my fundamental drafting beliefs. In the end, despite the potential backlash, I had to be true to who I am and that meant passing on Keenum.
Tons of data from the FCFI Expert league draft last night – 2QB format, hosted by MockDraft Central and MC Randy Burgess keeping the event on schedule.
Big hat tip to CFO Drew Smith (twitter @fcbdrew) as his team receives a lot of love from the commentariat at other sites.
YES! I am the #1 overall pick - show me Cammy money! Wait, COLLEGE FANTASY FOOTBALL?(Icon SMI)
Best comment so far? Daniel at CFFI “FantasyCollegeBlitz’s picks were pretty good. Took guts to skip Keenum.”
I might point to a different body part...round-by-round (PDF) and team-by-team below the fold!
Apologies for the formatting on the team-by-team – we have never found a nice way to present tables. If you want a hardcore spreadsheet from our quantitative analyst Matt Ryan, email vince[at]fantasycollegeblitz[dot]com.
It has been a crazy few weeks as I took the plunge into marriage with our wedding last week. I drove over 3,000 miles in a week between driving to Connecticut for the wedding and then taking the scenic route back to Florida. We made stops in Boston, DC, Asheville and finally Savannah. It was my first time visiting Asheville and I am now a huge fan of that city. Yeah, yeah, yeah (great band btw), I know what you are thinking…that’s sweet, let’s get to the football already. Fair enough, here are some of my thoughts and observations on football…most of it is fantasy college focused but who knows, I might even throw in some real college football and heck maybe even pro football topics since I’m now crazy hitched.
