College Fantasy Football Is HERE... Here's What You Need To Know

Yahoo just launched the very first real college football fantasy football league, and I am absolutely juiced. 68 teams, new format that nobody's ever played before. We'll talk all about it today. Very excited to break this thing all down. How you can sign up, where you can sign up, and of course, High Top Sports will be running its own, its very own link. So if you want in on the action, comment down below, say, let me in, baby. Let's roll the intro. Let's talk about it. Boys and girls, welcome back to High Top Sports. Today, we are talking about the new addition that Yahoo is bringing to college football, which is fantasy college football. Now, I know that there has been a level or some type of functionality of fantasy football within college sports, but the problem is it hasn't really been mainstream media where you kind of had the app very similar to your NFL fantasy. Not anymore, boys and girls. August 3rd will be your kickoff date. So a lot of people, you may be rushing off this video, trying to sign up, trying to create a lead, puff the brakes, can't do anything until August 3rd. Why? I've know this because I've tried. Okay. I've already been trying to get all in the action. I want to see what it looks like. I want to see the players. I want to see how they have them ranked. I am just foaming at the mouth to get in on the action for this fantasy football. So August 3rd, the draft opens up. You can create your league. You can join leagues, do what you need to do. Obviously it starts week within a month after that, which is September 3rd, obviously the kickoff to college football. So you have. About 30 days or so to put your team together or your league together. If you will set a draft, have all the fun with it. Drafting over 68 teams. Okay. Obviously all the teams in the power for conference, including Notre Dame. So no Mac conference, none of the, none of the group of five guys, only the power for conference, keeping it as simple as you can, but with that many teams, I believe you're allowed to, you could probably have 16, 20 guys in a league. And then not feel too chaotic. If you will. Now, there's so many things we're going to discuss in the video about strategy and whatnot, but here's how the schedule will go, which doesn't really surprise anybody. Obviously, uh, your first. Well, regular season, we, we weeks one through 11 and then 12 and 13, essentially your final two weeks at given your bi-week. So 12 and 13 will be your playoffs. And I would imagine just like you do in the regular season of football, you could probably move the playoffs if you wanted it to go three weeks right now, this is only 14 would make the playoffs. And we're talking about adding 20 dudes to the playoffs. Uh, that could be a little bit chaotic. So that'll be a lot of things that you guys can figure out, shake up how you want to run your league, but that is how the playoffs and the regular season will run. Again, one through 11 is the regular season. Then the playoffs will be week 12 and 13. Now let's talk about the roster studies, because this is where it changes from your typical NFL roster. Okay. Somewhat similar, but a big nuance that is adding to this. So one quarterback, which again, when we get into draft strategy, just early on the point scoring system is very similar as well. Uh, 25 yards for, for, for a point. Uh, touchdowns is four to six, depending on what you want to rock and roll with. So again, the scoring is very similar to what it is now in the NFL. And I imagine they'll have custom settings if you want to change it to whatever you feel. But one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers and running backs seem to be the hot commodity from what I was gathering and reading. The bat will be where you want to, or you'll be able to get most of your points again, very similar to where things are now again, wide receivers. I would say are a hot commodity in the NFL, but quarterbacks are just such a, a dynamic duo. In a sense, when it comes to college football, you don't know what you're going to get out of a quarterback. And you can say the same for the NFL, but those guys are much more consistent than your college quarterback. So that is going to be definitely something to keep in mind when drafting two wide receivers. Then you've got to kind of a weird scenario with your tight ends. You've got guys that play the tight end position or are labeled as tight ends, but are utilized much more as a wide receiver. So you kind of get that flex play. Debo Samuel last year was a huge factor that if any of those remember that in the NFL, you could put him in as a flex or wide receiver. He was taking balls out of the backfield, like a running back. That guy was an absolute cheat code because he was just getting the ball fed to him in multiple different ways. Uh, uh, Taysom Hill is another one. Obviously you can put them in a flex because he played tight and he played quarterback. He played wide receiver. There's a few of those guys. Now in the college football, then flex, you get to, that is different from your typical run of the mill in the NFL one defense. And then here's where things get juicy. Of course, this show is brought to you by price picks, ladies and gentlemen, right now is a fantastic time to download the app price picks. Use that code HMA link is down in the description below. It's world cup season boys. It's also the NBA finals. It's the NHL finals. It is a wonderful time to get in on the action. They're offering a ton of max discounts right now, along with the world cup. 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And so when you draft an entire offense, let's say we're for our sake here at home, Florida Gators, right? You take them versus week one and week two against FAU and Campbell chicken noodle soup, right? But week three, they got Auburn. You got Dirk, his defense. Things might slow down a little bit. Are you able to have a handful of offenses stacked up on the bench? Right. Who does Ohio state play week three? Who is good? Some teams that play some nobody's that I could, that I could stash away here to rotate back and forth. That's going to be part of the strategy, right? The scheduling. We do it a little bit. Now in the defense, when, when, when somebody put in with the quarterbacks and your typical NFL fantasy football draft, who are they playing this week? I gotta, I gotta, I gotta tinker here. Team offense. That's huge. Right now, the scoring is what's important for the team offense. This where this changes a little bit. Okay. This is a big one for a touchdown of any type for the team offense. Right. They have their own separate scoring system. Plus three points. First 300 yards of offense. Plus 1.5 points. Every 50 yards after that initial 300, a 0.25 points. A turnover is minus two points. So big time stuff there. If a turnover happens again, think about that, right? When you throw a touchdown, a quarterback, there's a touchdown. That's six points. If they're interception, that's two. It's a little bit, you know, four point differential. This is three touchdowns for any time or minus two. So a turnover could be a massive disadvantage. If you've got a team that, you know, is likely for turnovers, field goal, plus one team win plus one team loss minus one. So protecting the ball, keeping the gas on the pedal is going to be important for the team that you select, right? Um, it's going to be, again, there's so many nuances and chaoses that I'm excited to look. Now, if you're getting some draft strategy, right, let's dive into that. This was last year's numbers. If we were to go ahead and score it out, here's how it broke out for elite tier and just missed. Indiana top of the leaderboard scoring 239 points. Last year, Texas tech, 211 Notre Dame, two 10 Utah, two Oh six. You can see after Indiana was kind of just in a class of their own. It is very tight, right? USC being in the bottom in the, in the 10th hole there at one 77, you can see the variation from two to 10. It's not much, right? It's the same as from a second to first, uh, just about, which is pretty crazy to think about. But again, all of these things we will start implementing here on the show. We are pumped to get involved with this. Talk about this, give insight on what we think, trying to put together the best lineup starters, who you should sit. I am excited for the opportunities and what could come from this. Let me know how you guys feel about this. Are you going to get in on the action? Are you going to join a lead? Are you going to create your own league and get in on it as well? Again, running back seemed to be a hot commodity for what I'm reading and gathering thus far. Again, just because of what you have available, but available, but I think who they play, all these things are gonna be such a big factor because of the scheduling that plays a huge component to this. Love it. Absolutely love it. I think I saw a few teams, maybe in the group of five that were upset of how this thing is shaking up, but we're, we're, we're happy about it. Now you get to, you get to select your favorite player. You're going to be cheering for them regardless, but now you're gonna be cheering for them on a different level when they are running for your fantasy football team. It's what makes me harder for the NFL. And now we get to have that in college football, which again, we're watching all the games anyways. It just gives us one more reason to get absolutely bonkers about it. I'm thinking about doing a pretty juicy, lucrative league here at high top sports. How many teams? I don't know yet. I got to see this thing. August 3rd, this thing is going to bust wide open. I hope we can get some, some tidbits, maybe some insights. I gotta see. I want to see how it looks. I want to see how it feels. I want to see how they have these, these players and, and the, and the offense is ranked out and give it the full rankings. I can't wait to get my fingers in there and get after it. Mock drafts. I mean, there's just so many opportunities that we can do with this new world of college football, college fantasy football. I can't even say it's a mouthful. I don't, I don't know. I don't know how to, I don't know how to rock and roll. You should just fantasy football. And everybody knows now it's college fantasy football. That's what we got to rock and roll with. Again, let me know that in the comment section below, how are you feeling about this, uh, this new addition to college football? Will you be joining the league? Let me know in the comment section below and I'll see you boys in the next one. Peace and love, baby.