The 18-team battle that is the Fantasy College Football Charity Pro-Am brought to you by Fantasy College Blitz and Athlon Sports reached its pinnacle, and the winner Ryan Worley represented two top organizations:

• his favorite team is the U – Miami (FL) as he named his team The U24
• his charity is the Teammates Mentoring Program (founded by Nebraska great Tom Osborne) and will receive a very nice holiday donation for Ryan’s work.

Antonio Brown dusts a WMU defender in 2008 (Icon SMI)

Truly a time for thanks giving…

Joe Arpasi of CollegeFootballGeek.com manned the Pro spot (just like his compatriot Todd in 2008) and came strong the entire year, but ran into the U24 Central Michigan buzzsaw hookup of Dan LeFevour and Antonio Brown (right, Icon SMI) early in the week and could never catch up.

FINAL 250.81 to 141.84 as Ryan sets the season high mark for Points Scored!

That is how to finish!

We are tallying up the deposit slips so we can get the check to Teammates.org – a quick byte from their site should give you some insight into their work, and hopefully motivate you to do some charitable work this holiday season with so many in need.

Tom and Nancy Osborne founded the TeamMates Mentoring Program in 1991 in an effort to provide support and encouragement to school aged youth. The goal of the program is to see youth graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education in Nebraska and Iowa. To reach this goal, youth meet one hour per week with a caring adult who serves as a mentor. Mentors are volunteers from the community who have dedicated themselves to making a difference in the life of a young person. Mentors give youth a sense of hope, purpose and vision.

Next year, we want the league to expand to 32 teams from this season’s 18, so stay tuned. After the jump, a screen print of the fine effort that The U24 brought to the final. Even the best lineup for the One-Man Wolfpack could not have taken out the U…

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I led an industry wide project to set up a promotional Pro-Am league this season, and we finally have made it to playoff week. Between Athlon Sports, College Fantasy Football Insiders, College Football Geek and Fantasy College Blitz we are donating almost $400 to the winner’s charity of choice, something we are all proud of since we wanted to do something about all the economic pain out in this world.

After the jump are your top 6 seeds and their charities. As we approach the season of giving, please consider some of these great organizations and the stories of how they have touched our participants.

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The winner’s favorite 501c3 charity (Am or Pro) receives the winnings from the Fantasy College Football Charity Pro-Am – a great message in these economic times and a great holiday gift to charity.

Deep breath...

It is kinda like Pebble Beach but all online with no 17-mile Road ocean views.

Prizes too (in line with current economic meltdown) – both the FCB and CFFI will give the winner one free post and a “superfan” appearence on a podcast – you pick the venue to tell the world that you beat the best in the country. Geek might chip in something too.

A reminder for a great chance to test out your skills competing with the pros:

• Alex Esselink of College Fantasy Football Insiders
• Todd DeVries of College Football Geek (defending champ)
• Joe Arpasi of Geek
• Steve Lassan of Athlon Sports
• Me and maybe others

Matt McClusky of the Matt Mc’s Sports Fix (yo man gimme a hit) will admit to not being a pro but is a full-time sports media personality.

Sign up and fully register now – this is all-FBS, 2 QB starters, 24 owners (at least, the U can go to 36 if y’all are down) and full throttle action bought to you by U-Sports at Athlon Sports. Teams are just $19.95 for the entire football season – that’s like a dollar a week for a great cause!

Draft is still set for Sunday AUg 30 at 3pm. If we get to 32 teams this will be a true test of your fantasy mettle on a global scale.

Last year a few of you joined up for FCB Select, where I tried out some different scoring systems and such and we just had a grand old time.

While our favorite superfan Neil Young led the league in points scored and forum posts, in the end it was Todd DeVries whose CollegeFootballGeek.com team took home the title in 2006 St. Louis Cardinals-like fashion after finishing 9-11 in the regular season (multiple games per week).

2009 will be much hotter – ladies and gentlemen I give you the expanded Fantasy College Football Pro-Am!

This is a great chance to test out your skills competing with the pros, and those pros would be me and Alex Esselink from our friends at College Fantasy Football Insiders. It is kinda like Pebble Beach but all online.

Prizes too (in line with current economic meltdown) – both the FCB and CFFI will give the winner one free post and a “superfan” appearence on a pocast – you pick the venue to tell the world that you beat the best in the country. Geek will chip in something too.

Sign up now – this is all-FBS, 2 QB starters, 24 owners (at least, the U can go to 36 if y’all are down) and full throttle action bought to you by U-Sports at Athlon Sports. Teams are just $19.95 for the entire football season – that’s like a dollar a week!

UPDATE Aug 19: Neil young is unable to join, and the league is now built for charity. The winner of the league will name their 501c3 charity to make a nice donation from proceeds on this league – a great message in these economic times and a great holiday gift to charity.