FCFI Week 2 Review and Week 3 Preview
College Sports Madness evened up their record at 1-1 in the Fantasy College Football Invitational with a whooping of CFFInsider by a score of 167.55 to 135.40. First round draft pick Case Keenum finally put up some big numbers, throwing for five touchdown passes and netting us 43.80 points. Everybody else did pretty well, with all three running backs totaling between 17.5 and 19.5 points and both receivers netting over ten points. We can’t ask for much more than that.
This week we are making our early playoff push against SI.com. Yet, there are changes to be made pretty much everywhere on our roster. Case Keenum is not leaving the starting lineup again until he gets hurt. Chris Relf plays against LSU this week, so for the first time we are starting Russell Wilson. The Badgers are playing against Northern Illinois, so I expect this to be a shootout and possibly a closer game than many expect. At running back, we’d like to start Cierre Wood, Rex Burkhead and Chris Polk again, but Burkhead and Polk face each other and that is a little worrisome. New Mexico State’s Robert Clay was picked up just in case, but the running back situation will come down to Saturday morning’s gut feelings.
At wide receiver D.J. Woods should put up good numbers again and Marquis Maze is finally getting a start when the Tide take on North Texas. Jeremy Ebert is a bust until Dan Persa gets back and Jermaine Kearse is the only other option. Kearse is another Washington player going up against a tough Nebraska defense, so if Polk is starting, Kearse certainly will not be. Nebraska’s defense is ready to step up and I don’t want it to be when I have fantasy guys going up against them.
At tight end we are sticking with Deangelo Peterson from LSU. He has gotten six points in each of the first two weeks, so we’ll be happy with that from a rotating tight end. At kicker we picked up USF’s Maikon Bonani. He missed a couple field goals last week, but against Florida A&M, we’ll take seven or eight extra points and call it good. The North Carolina State defense that kept us in the game during week one has another easy game against South Alabama. This will be our last use of the NC State defense and from now on we’ll be playing week to week.
SI.com has some good players, most notably quarterbacks G.J. Kinne and Geno Smith. Both of those teams have tough matchups though and that is good news for us. Isaiah Pead should have a nice game against Akron, but Antwon Bailey has to play USC and Sam McGuffie, who isn’t very good in the first place, has a bye week. Wide receivers T.Y. Hilton and Demarlo Belcher beat any duo we can put out there, but FIU plays UCF’s tough defense. I sense 2-1 coming, but check back next week to see why I’m usually wrong about these things.
