With such an illustrious career and statistical obscene season, why isn’t Case Keenum receiving serious attention for the 2011 Heisman Trophy?

Keenum leads the nation for fifth place ballots – so writers around the nation include him because they feel obligated?

College football fans can witness the game’s all-time leading passer on an undefeated team this weekend as ESPN takes its mobile Gameday set to Houston – can ESPN reset the Heisman discussion by providing Keenum a national platform that he does not normally get from the CBS College Sports Network?

The fantasy sports fans among us operate on a very populist level of meritocracy – great example is from 2007 Paul Smith’s yards at Tulsa equaled Tim Tebow’s yards at Florida so we view the sport through a production-centric lens. So, the fantasy college football community will no doubt support Keenum.

Most of the rest of the pundits and fans apply another lens that factors in strength of schedule, or NFL prospect, or their own home team bias. These other viewpoints have their place, but do they really matter when trying to define “the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity”?
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The newly minted Pac 12 now brings a wider assortment of potential fantasy talent to the season. As usual, the West Coast bias is in play here, leaving this as the last of the Big 6 conferences to report. We’ll look to start first with a breakdown on the Pac 12 QBs.

First Tier – Start worthy

Andrew Luck, Stanford – Much like Matt Leinert in years past, Luck decided to stay in school versus the riches of the NFL. Hopefully the decision works out better for him, especially considering HC Harbaugh went the other direction and jumped to the pros. Despite all that, our anticipation is that Luck will pass for over 3,000 yards, hit for 30+ TDs and be the #1 scoring QB out of the Pac 12. Be confident in selecting him, he’s playing for keeps this year. Read the rest of this entry →

On Monday we debuted our exclusive TEBOW rankings for the Fantasy College Football Invitational (FCFI) Expert League format (18 teams, 2QB, etc.), and I wanted to get new rankings for the major formats ahead of the weekend as this tends to be the first big draft weekend of the year.

A refresher - Talent Excess Budgeted Over Walkon (TEBOW) applies some time-tested fantasy principles to CFO Drew Smith’s projections, helping you better prepare for your unique draft setups. I think I can credit Baseball Prospectus with the fantasy application Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) concept, in that any member of a fantasy roster only has value if expected to perform over the value of a player on the margin of the league’s starting lineup requirements.

So for our purposes, while Case Keenum is universally accepted as the creme de la creme of fantasy college QBs, his value to a given fantasy roster is determined by the value relative to a replacement QB in your league. Assuming a 16-team league, if you play 2 QBs his value is greater than in a 1QB league since the marginal utility is QB 33 versus QB17.

Got it? Not yet, please realize you can now compare the relative values among the positions to see who is a better overall pick. Compare Keenum’s TEBOW value versus Justin Blackmon or La Michael James and on down the line. We are going much deeper after the jump. (UPDATED WITH FULL RANKINGS ON BOTH FORMATS)

If you want custom work, email me at vince[AT]fantasycollegeblitz[dot]com and the only cost is telling a friend about the site. Find me on twitter @vincemullins too.

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Fantasy College Football fans can now prepare a cheatsheet customized to your league setup AND your scoring system – FOR FREE!

Cheatsheet Customizer 2011 (click here)

CFO (Chief Fantasy Officer) Drew Smith  updates this constantly with news (follow him on Twitter @fcbdrew for his updates) – for a frame of reference here are links to his Aug 9 preseason positional rankings:

Top 55 Fantasy College Football Quarterbacks | Top 144 Fantasy College Football Running Backs | Top 144 Fantasy College Football Receivers

My all-FBS Top 55 fantasy college football quarterbacks as camps opened last week – stay tuned for the Cheatsheet Customizer later this week.

Rank    Name    Class    Team    Bye

1    Case Keenum    Sr    HOU    7,14
2    Landry Jones    Jr    OKLA    2, 11
3    G.J. Kinne    Sr    TULSA    6, 14
4    Bryant Moniz    Sr    HAW    6
5    Robert Griffin    Jr    BAY    2, 8
6    Dominique Davis    Sr    ECU    3, 14
7    Denard Robinson    Jr    MICH    8, 14
8    Andrew Luck    Jr    STAN    4, 14
9    Chandler Harnish    Sr    NIU    9, 14
10    Kyle Padron    Jr    SMU    6, 14

11    Brandon Weeden    Sr    OKST    5, 13
12    Ryan Tannehill    Sr    TXAM    2, 14
13    Zach Collaros    Sr    CIN    6, 9
14    Darron Thomas    Jr    ORE    5, 14
15    Austin Davis    Sr    SMISS    7, 14
16    Taylor Martinez    So    NEB    7, 14
17    Alex Carder    Jr    WMCH    10, 14
18    James Franklin    So    MO    5, 14
19    Ryan Aplin    Jr    AKST    7, 13
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